For this latest edition of the Salon de la Photo, a special exhibition has been organized in honor of Sabine Weiss, who turns 90 this year, with three different events…
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Everybody liked Tom Stoddart, even other photographers! Especially other photographers. Tom was the photographer’s photographer. His pictures from conflicts, catastrophes and humanitarian crises around the world […]…
The Eye of Photography has decided to devote a whole day for this special issue devoted to one of the most famous primitive photographers […]…
We celebrated last year, in 2020, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Nègre. That same year my father Joseph Nègre would […]…
Charles Nègre was born in Grasse in 1820 into a prosperous family of confectioners. A student of painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in […]…
What was his century in the evolution of Western civilization? The European Enlightenment died out in a general political and structural cacophony of which […]…
Charles Nègre left Paris for Provence and a journey of nearly six months. In the summer of 1852, he was 32 years old and […]…
Photograph is fragile “like the wings of a butterfly”. This remark of Arago is still very relevant in the 1850s, when it is noted […]…
For 12 years, from 1850 to 1861, Charles Nègre lived at 21 quai Bourbon in Paris. At the time, Île Saint-Louis was not today’s […]…
The name of this man endures in time and in principle for a few centuries through his works which carry his generation beyond his […]…