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*(1) Jean-Jacques Naudet (Directeur de la Rédaction), (2) Ericka Weidmann (Rédacteur en Chef), (3) Xavier Derache (Responsable des Rubriques), (4) Juliette Deschodt (Responsable Editorial), (5) Sylvie Rebbot (Secrétaire de Rédaction anglais), (6) Gilles Decamps (Correspondant USA), (7) Rudth Mael Galite (Responsable technique), (8) Greg Hermann (Traducteur anglais), (9) Michael Verger (Traducteur français), (10) Damien Robert (Référencement web), (11) Bernard Perrine (Journaliste France), (12) Michel Puech  (Journaliste France), (13) Laurence Cornet (Correspondante USA), (14) Jonas Cuénin (Correspondant USA), (15) Fanny Lambert (Journaliste France), (16) Michel Philippot (Revue de Presse Européenne) , (17) Antoines Soubrier (Journaliste France), (18) Miss Rosen, (19) Molly Benn / Our Age is 13 (Vidéos), (20) Séverine Morel (Rubrique Tendances), (21) Pauline Auzou (Journaliste France), (22) Céline Chevallier (Correspondante Amérique du Sud), Eva Gravayat (Correspondante Allemagne), (24) Sybile Girault (Correspondante Inde), (25) Marine Cabos (Correspondante Chine), (26) Alison Stieven-Taylor (Correspondante Australies), (27) Yan Morvan (Photographe), (28) Eliseo Barbàra (Correspondant Asie), (29) Miriam Rosen (Journaliste France), (30) Patricia Nagy (Revue de Presse Mode), (31) Virginie Drujon-Kippelen(Correspondante USA), (32) Elizabeth Avedon (Correspondante USA), (33) Christian Caujolle (Correspondant international), (34) Christophe Lunn (Correspondant international), (35) Olivier Pineda (Directeur Artistique).

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Dear Readers, Seventy-five days after leaving Le Journal de la Photographie, we’re back with L'Oeil de la Photographie | The Eye of Photography. The seventy-five days were turbulent and full of passion, and we owe our return to ten sponsors who will support us as we develop a more sustainable business model. We will introduce them in the near future. We would like to thank them all. Our return also owes itself to our team: of the 36 regular and occasional contributors to Le Journal, 34 are with us today as The Eye. And above all, we are here today because of you. The hundreds of messages we received in the past weeks reinforced our determination to return as soon as possible. And here we are. Please let us know what you think our new home. It’s also yours.

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FRESH: Curated by Wm Hunt and Darren Ching

FRESH: KLOMPCHING Gallery. Curators: Wm Hunt + Darren Ching

FRESH: KLOMPCHING Gallery

Curated by W.M. Hunt + Darren Ching

New Yorkers braved the 100+ degree heat wave to see this very fine show co-curated by distinguished collector/curator W.m. Hunt and Klompching Gallery owner Darren Ching. The work of five upcoming photographers is presented at KLOMPCHING Gallery, 111 Front Street in Brooklyn's Dumbo Art district to August 10.  Read more here and my W.m. Hunt Interview here

MONA KUHN: Curates Nudes in Contemporary Photography at Flowers Gallery NY

Alec Soth, Las Vegas (2011). Courtesy of Sean Kelly, New York

Excerpts from An Interview With Mona Kuhn

by Elizabeth Avedon

via Le Journal de la Photographie

Elizabeth Avedon: What brings you to New York?
Mona Kuhn: I have been invited to curate an exhibition titled “Under My Skin” at Flowers Gallery in New York City. It is a selection of nudes in contemporary photography, with works created mostly in the last five years. The exhibition reflects how we are currently representing the nude through the photo medium.

Aside from photography, I have been an independent scholar at Getty Research Institute since 2000. In the last 13 years, I have been curious about how we humans represent ourselves in works of art, and specifically in nudes, throughout art history - in all mediums.

It is a fascinating subject to me. Trends in art come and go, but the Nude remains a canon of high art, like a shadow we cannot jump away from. My two favorite ways of escaping is to photograph and being a bookworm. The invitation to curate brought both desires together.

EA: Did you alter your point of view when shifting from artist to curator?  

MK: Lets face it, curating is a competitive career. Most curators compete with each other to establish themselves intellectually in their field. There has been a huge gap in the US for museum level exhibitions related to the Nude. I am very comfortable with the theme, it is my second skin. And because it is not my profession and I am not tied in with an institution, I have the freedom to bring together works of high and low art that reflect our current culture. The choices were more emotional and guttural, than academic. I am thankful for that freedom...(Mona Kuhn is one of the most interesting women in Photography today. Read the entire Interview here)

 EXHIBITION
Curated by Mona Kuhn 

 “Under My Skin: Nudes in Contemporary Photography” 
June 20 – August 24, 2013
FLOWERS GALLERY
529 West 20th Street, New York

PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderated by George Pitts with Mona Kuhn, Vince Aletti, 
Mariah Robertson and Shen Wei
“The Role of the Nude in Contemporary Photography”
June 18, 2013, 6:30PM
Parsons The New School for Design
Theresa Lang Auditorium
55 West 13th Street, New York

Mona Kuhn Interviews

from the Archives of Le Journal de la Photographie 
Interview with Mona Kuhn 2011   
Interview with Mona Kuhn 2012
 

PHOTO L.A. 2013: Le Journal de la Photographie in PRINT! Edition Zero

Parking © Alex Kummerman
Le Journal de la Photographie in Print!

From "The Diary of Alex Kummerman"

Le Journal de la Photographie, April 26, 2013

"For the opening of Paris Photo LA 2013, we have decided to release a printed copy of the Journal de la Photographie. Alex Kummerman, Co-founder and Chairman of the Journal took it with him to Los Angeles and did some snapshots of its birth and delivery in the amazing Paramount Studios."(Le Journal)

I'm so honored my "Interview with Lise Sarfati" (now updated) is the cover of Le Journal de la Photographie's first printed edition. 

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JAIME PERMUTH: Yonkeros

 Yonkeros. Photographs © Jaime Permuth

 Yonkeros. Photographs © Jaime Permuth

In his first monograph, Yonkeros, Guatemalan photographer Jaime Permuth documents “The Iron Triangle”: Willets Point, a small and often overlooked enclave of New York City that is home to junkyards and scrap metal businesses. “Permuth’s beautiful black-and-white photographs highlight local workers, and their tools and materials.”

 

 

Jaime Permuth: Yonkeros  | Interview by Elizabeth Avedon

LE JOURNAL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE

Elizabeth Avedon: In the past, you've documented the circus performers of El Circo Rey Gitano in Guatemala. What drew you to photograph in Willets Point?

Jaime Permuth: The Guatemalan poet Alejandro Marre recently described my work as coming from the “B-side of life”. Considering these two projects, I would have to admit that there is some truth to that statement!

Circus life is like a revolving door, with people walking in and out of it constantly. The same is true of the mechanics that work in Willets Point. There is an essential mystery and poetic richness in this kind of human community. People tend to live on the margins of society and play by their own rules. In my experience, photographers are not that different. We go from one project to the next. We arrive, set up camp, and then inevitably pick up and leave so we can move on to our next destination.

For the past 40 years the mechanics in Willets Point have been locked in a battle for survival with the City of New York, which wishes to evict them and redevelop the area as mixed residential and commercial neighborhood. Occasionally there is a flare up in tensions that make it to the newspapers. One fine day in spring of 2010, curiosity got the best of me and I took a ride on the 7 train to take a look for myself. What I saw there was absolutely surreal; I felt like I had stepped back in time and found myself a figure standing in a Walker Evans landscape from the Great Depression of the 1930’s...read Jaime Permuth's Interview here on Le Journal de la Photographie.

MIKE BRODIE: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity Book + Exhibitions

 Photograph © Mike Brodie

  Photograph © Mike Brodie

  Photograph © Mike Brodie

 Photograph © Mike Brodie

 

  Photograph © Mike Brodie

Mike Brodie Talks To Elizabeth Avedon 

for Le Journal de la Photographie

"Mike Brodie doesn’t have a telephone, so I asked someone who asked someone who asked Mike Brodie a few questions..." Read Brodie's Interview

“Mike Brodie spent years crisscrossing the U.S. amassing a collection, now appreciated as one of the most impressive archives of American travel photography. At 17 he hopped his first train close to his home in Pensacola, FL thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, AL. Instead the train went in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, FL. Days later, Brodie rode the same train home, arriving back where he started. Nonetheless, it sparked something and he began to wander across the U.S. by any means that were free - walking, hitchhiking and train hopping. Shortly after, he found a Polaroid camera stuffed behind a car seat. With no training in photography and coke-bottle glasses, the instant camera was an opening for Brodie to document his experiences. As a way of staying in touch with his transient community, he shared his pictures on various websites gaining the moniker “The Polaroid Kidd”. When the Polaroid film he used was discontinued, Brodie switched to 35mm film and a sturdy 1980’s camera.”–Twin Palms

Book

Mike Brodie: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

First Edition, Casebound
Twin Palms Publishers

 

Exhibitions
Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity

March 7–April 6, 2013
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Mike Brodie: Period of Juvenile Prosperity

16 Mar - 11 May 2013
M+B Gallery, Los Angeles