There are always LOTS of Americans in Paris, so that’s a silly title, but I couldn’t help myself. Most of the photography action here this week — this month, really — is in the 6e arrondissement and over in the Grand Palais in the 8e. But I was strolling past the Pantheon last week and […]
Monthly Archives: November 2017
For four days (November 9-12, this year) the Grand Palais is filled with photographs. I knew it would be overwhelming, because — Grand Palais. So it was with a bit of trepidation that I set out for my first visit ever to this orgy of world photography. First, the organization of the exhibit is by […]
In this Parisian week of celebrating some of the best photographers in the world, it is something of a relief to laugh along with the Musee d’Orsay curators at the shocks and disappointments that awaited the earliest photographers, and still haunt us today. OK, so how many times have you taken a wonderful landscape or […]
It is rather hilarious to hang a feminist, women-only art show at a state institution that strikes coins. And that is not the only funny thing about this fabulous show, which will run through the end of January (2018). The show is also heartbreaking, and I have to admit that within about five minutes I […]
The Carmignac Photojournalism Award is now in its eighth year. It may be one of the least well known, and certainly one of the most productively lucrative, of awards designed to encourage courageous and in-depth journalism, in this case focusing on “an area of the world at the centre of geostrategic conflicts, where human rights […]
The historian's lens 