American photographer Henry Wessel (1942-2018), the subject of the exhibition “Henry Wessel: A Dark Thread” at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), had the unusual habit of not looking at the contact sheets of his photos until a year had … Read More
Anyone who has seen the moving film Visages Villages by director Agnès Varda and photographer JR was probably especially touched, as I was, by the sweet-natured and talented JR. This young (now 35) Frenchman became famous for his guerrilla wheatpasting … Read More
Prison Break-ins, Fathers and Sons, and More “Intérieur d’une Cellule” (2010). © Grégoire Korganow pour le CGLPL There are no real links between the new crop of photography exhibitions at Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie, but each one of … Read More
Images Plucked from The Sludge of History ”La Vie de Château” (1973) by Philippe Salaün. © Philippe Salaün. Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris Any exhibition that attempts to cover a time span of more than 30 years or … Read More
Images Plucked from The Sludge of History ”La Vie de Château” (1973) by Philippe Salaün. © Philippe Salaün. Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris Any exhibition that attempts to cover a time span of more than 30 years or … Read More
