Among the many changes due to the strange compulsion that drives us to leave each decade behind like a reptile shedding its skin, the 1980s – or the myth that…
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Enter the 1990s. After the AIDS years, the world stopped dancing. As did Jeanloup Sieff, he who so loved to photograph dance and dancers. His photography would now follow the…
First exhibited in Tokyo in 1979, Kohei Yoshiyuki’s twin projects The Park and Love Hotel ignited furious debate about photography’s relationship with voyeurism and surveillance. Yoshiyuki was a young commercial…
While living in Vancouver I resided in the demonized area known as the Downtown Eastside (DTES). I worked part-time in some of the residential housing programs and produced this series…
For more than thirty years, Steve McCurry, with his sense of color and light, has made his work a reference point in the world of photography. Born in Philadelphia, he…
A Moment. Master Photographers: Portraits by Michael Somoroff is a body of work Michael Somoroff made thirty-five years ago. He took it upon himself to photograph in-depth his heroes and…
The historian of photography Helmut Gernsheim (1913 – 1995) owned the largest photography collection in the world. For the first time in half a century, both its sections are being…
Robert Kennedy was the most imposing politician he ever met. And Johnny Depp is incredibly photogenic. Steve Schapiro (*1934 in Brooklyn) ought to know, because he has actually photographed them…
Bachar el-Assad’s régime has been merciless in its dealings with anyone daring to demonstrate or be part of the uprising, relentlessly pursuing opponents, even inside civilian hospitals. People found injured…
First the shock wave hit Athens, then spread to other major cities in Europe. If one European Union member state was in financial difficulties, surely it could draw the others…