An email on January 15th: “Hello Jean-Jacques. I like your site. Would you like to show some of my images?” It had been 40 […]…
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What constitutes a favorite is that after seeing it every day for years, it doesn’t lose its power. I know some photographers who are […]…
JAY: I had never thought about having a child. My wife, L.A., thought otherwise. I of course fell in love with Amanda and started […]…
For fifty years I lived in a unique building, the bank at 190 Bowery. In addition to an enormous amount of rooms and a […]…
Haiti was one of the first times I traveled in a “foreign” country. I had always wanted to go there. It was mysterious. It […]…
I went to Iran in 1971 to work on a book of the 2500th celebration of the formation of the Persian Empire. It was […]…
The first time I saw Paris… I didn’t get to Europe until I was 32 years old. I had wanted to go for a […]…
A life-time spent documenting the world From the 1950’s to the 1970’s, Hélène Roger-Viollet travelled the world with her Rolleiflex camera. America, Asia, Africa… […]…
Founded in 1938, the Roger-Viollet photo agency, located at 6 rue de Seine in Paris, is one of the oldest French agencies. Its collections […]…
Henri Roger was born in 1869. He took his first photograph at the age of eleven. In is twenties, and already a young engineer, […]…