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Letters from Lázsló Moholy-Nagy to Erzsi Landau

The relationship between László Moholy-Nagy and Erzsi Landau is still surrounded by a certain mystery. Some photo historians say they were simply good friends, while others say their relationship was much more than that, suggesting that Erzsi Landau may have been the one taught Moholy-Nagy the basics of photography.

by György Németh

“Problems, problems” – Letters to and from Photographers

After a series of poorly received stories, editor Audrey Withers wrote this letter, informing Cecil Beaton that she had had to kill every picture he had taken for the story

by Michael Diemar

La Salpêtrière – Fact, fiction and speculation about Blanche Wittmann

“Listen, Blanche. I know there are things you don’t want to talk about, but you’ve known me for a long time and you know that I have no intention to make fun of you. I’d like you to explain something about the attacks you used to have.”

by Michael Diemar

Rose Boyt – A proposal from Andy Warhol, friends in the bath, and posing for her father, Lucian Freud

Andy took me to Studio 54 and introduced me to the door staff so I could get in any time I wanted to party. Out of the blue he asked me to marry him, a proposal both of us knew would not lead to anything, although I was pleased to receive his seal of approval.

by Michael Diemar

Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900-1940: The Thomas Walther Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibition at Jeu De Paume 14 September 2021 – 13 February 2022

Known throughout the photography as having "the eye", many would add that he has the gift like no other for getting to the essence of a photograph.

by Michael Diemar

The London Photograph Fair – 40 Years On

2022 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the London Photograph Fair. Its first outing was on Sunday September 12th 1982, and it was held at the Photographers’ Gallery in Newport Street, just off Charing Cross Road.

by Richard Meara

“Talking French”
A conversation with Philippe Garner about the British fashion photographer
John French

French’s images pack their punch precisely because of their essential simplicity; but this apparent simplicity was hard won, underpinned by the high technical standards that he set.

by Michael Diemar

A Gust of Photo-Philia: Photography in the Art Museum
by Alexandra Moschovi

Where does photography stand in today’s art museum? And how did it arrive there?

by Mary Pelletier

The Democratic Picture: Grace McCann Morley and Photography in the San Francisco Museum of Art

The San Francisco Museum of Art opened its doors on the top floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building in 1935.

by Alexandra Moschovi

The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women
by Catherine McKinley

McKinley began collecting African studio photography while traveling in West Africa in the early 1990s.

by Mary Pelletier

History of Photography in China: New Discoveries and Research

China in the 19th century was not an easy place for foreigners to travel with and use their cameras.

by Terry Bennett

Ecstatic Light:
Renate Heyne on Moholy-Nagy’s Photograms

With his name added this image says “I, Moholy, am shaping light with my hands” or “I grasp the light”.

by Mary Pelletier

In Memoriam:
Daniel Wolf 1955-2021

Daniel Wolf was one of those giants in photography who played a major role in the development of our profession.

by William L. Schaeffer

In Memoriam:
Janette Rosing 1942 – 2021

She made collecting things in various fields her life’s work, and saw it as in some way akin to the rewards of having a family, with each member looked after by being carefully preserved and immaculately annotated in her tiny pencil script.

by Richard Meara

Wendy Red Star at Joslyn Art Museum:
Re-examining The Indian Congress 1898.
An Interview with Annika Johnson, Associate Curator of Native American Art

In the summer of 1898, over 500 citizens of 35 Native American nations gathered in present-day North Omaha to participate in the Indian Congress.

by Michael Diemar

Antonia Gotte:
A Much Photographed Model

At some point in her modelling career Antonia accepted to sit for photographers and used as she was to unveiling for painters did not think twice before doing the same in front of the camera.

by Denis Pellerin

“La Maison démolie”
Photographs of Egypt by Maxime Du Camp 1849-1850

The enigmatic figure photographed among the ruins flickers throughout the texts, like a protagonist in a film, somehow connected to the plot, but never fully developed and seen only in disconnected glimpses.

by Julia Ballerini

The in visibility of Hadji-Ishmael: Maxime Du Camp’s 1850 photographs of Egypt

Du Camp’s sense of disorder and disjunction did leave its traces. One such trail appears intermittently throughout the photographs, a cypher that appears, disappears and reappears.

by Julia Ballerini

Bubble and Fly:
The Making of Two Iconic Fashion Stories

She studied it, smiled, and remarked, "You’re going to fly it over the Eiffel Tower, yes?" Suppressing a grin, I said, "Maybe."

by Melvin Sokolsky

György Stalter’s Manufacture and Tólápa:
Two Projects About Roma

These picture are subjective, they reflect me, my relationship with the world surrounding me, my vulnerability, my emotions, as well as the people who have collaborated with me.

by Michael Diemar

How David Attie invented Photoshop in the 1950s – and had his career launched by Truman Capote

Brodovitch loved the montages. In fact, he spent the entire class gushing over them.

by Eli Attie

What Did the Victorians See in the Stereoscope?

It soon became evident that, thanks to the stereoscope, a large number of people who could not afford the expense of going on a Grand Tour, could at least buy stereo cards of the places they wished to visit.

by Denis Pellerin

The Epidemic Conflagration

During the epidemic that took place during the winter of 1910-1911, some 60,000 people were struck down by a pulmonary form of the disease that invariably proved fatal.

by Pierre Dourthe

Images of Persia
Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris, trois mois de voyage en Perse

An exceptional archive, original photographs mostly taken by Henry-René d’Allemagne during his various archaeological, ethnographic and artistic expeditions in Persia between 1898 and 1907.

by Bruno Tartarin

Warren Thompson:
Stereo Daguerreotypist

Up to now very little was known about American-born stereo daguerreotypist Warren Thompson and the information we had about him was very scant, so much so that nobody knew when and where he was born or what happened to him after the early 1860s.

by Denis Pellerin

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