19 years ago for the magazine American Photo which has now disapeared , David Schonauer, Carol Squiers and I made a special issue for the 7th edition of Visa pour…
I had never met Stephen Shore before. I’m a big fan of his, especially his photos of The Factory in the 1960s and ‘70s, and the series Uncommon Places. I…
In 1985, Contrejour published the first book by Sebastião Salgado, Autres Amériques. Forty-nine images from this classic work, reproduced here in double-page spreads, are a powerful selection of the photographs…
Studio 54 was the world’s most famous and exalted discothèque. It opened in 1977 at 254 West 54th Street in New York City at a time when disco music was…
In 2008, the journalist, critic and publisher Rémi Coignet launched Des Livres et des photos, a blog specializing in photography books, hosted by the online edition of the French newspaper Le…
As part of its 20th Anniversary celebration, the Human Rights Center at the UC Berkeley School of Law presents Envisioning Human Rights, a collection of world-class human rights photography, curated…
Gilles Peress - Forced Separation, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993 In Gilles Peress’s photograph “Forced Separation, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993,” family members are forced to flee while others are left behind during…
The Musée de l’Elysée announces that its collections have been enriched by a major acquisition and donation: 5000 photography books belonging to Christoph Schifferli and 100 original prints by Gilles…
For the past 25 years, Frédéric Brenner has studied the Jewish diaspora in an attempt to answer the question: what does it mean to live with a portable identity? Winner of…
Landon Nordeman’s series, “Canine Kingdom,” takes us inside the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, now running for 138 years. To mark the exhibit’s opening March 12, photography curator Elisabeth Biondi…