Paris, 1:30pm, a September day, a restaurant on the rue de Richelieu: two couples, two tables, a dozen empty tables. Ten tourists stop in and ask for a free…
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Here is the fourth installment of Dave’s polaroids. With testimonies from two regulars who later became his close friends: Agnès de Gouvion Saint Cyr and June Newton.…
One day back in 1989, I received my first feature commission abroad to photograph Gainsbourg in Paris, at his house, on rue de Verneuil in the 7th district. I was…
An encounter with S. H. Lim (Vivat Pitayaviriyakul) and his fashion and glamour photography is akin to a trip in a Time Machine. Back to the glory days and uncomplicated…
The Moderna Museet of Stockholm is organizing a retrospective of the work of French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000). We are proposing two texts, an english version from La Lettre…
When I flip through the pages in Paul Jasmin’s latest book California Dreaming, I come to think about the song Being Boring – the second single from Pet Shop Boys’…
Similar to the project we presented last year at the BnF, Rose is Paris, we have imagined another police fiction, this time taking place at the Printemps department store, and…
Rugby d’autrefois is a beautiful book by Midi Olympique’s director of over 20 years, Jacques Verdier, and recently published by Flammarion. On the eve of the 6 Nations Rugby…
Published by the Yann Arthus-Bertrand Good Planet Foundation, the book Forests and Men features the work of several photographers. Designed for the general public, it evokes forests in their biological,…
A few months ago very few people, if any, had heard of Vivian Maier. Today, her lifetime body of work of over 100,000 negatives and more than 3,000 prints finally…