13.44 GMT First published on Tue 2 Nov 2021 07.00 GMT Albert Einstein at home in New Jersey, 1948This image was featured in the Guardian’s My Best Shot series Photograph: Marilyn Stafford Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Girl with milk bottle, Cité Lesage-Bullourde, Paris, circa 1950Stafford befriended the famous war photographer Robert Capa in Paris and […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 23 Nov 2022 08.04 GMT Self-Portrait in the Photography Studio of the Rue Delambre Paris, 1939Born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1897, Erwin Blumenfeld was beginning to make his name in Paris as a fashion photographer when the German occupation took place. He was interned in various camps in […]
07.00 BST Vertigo, 2021French photographers Elsa Parra and Johanna Benaïnous create fictional, cinematic scenes and characters inspired by their surroundings. The Timeless Story of Moormerland is on display at the MEP Studio in Paris until 6 November 2022. All images by Elsa and Johanna Facebook Twitter Timelessness, 2021The series is set in a small German town […]
07.00 BST Moves and Pepsi, Harlem, New York, 1955A new retrospective of William Klein’s work explores the artist’s life and career, highlighting his development as an artist and the connections between his different practices. William Klein: YES is at the International Center of Photography, New York until 12 September. All photographs: William Klein/Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 25 Nov 2021 10.43 GMT Prada, Monte Carlo, 1984Helmut and his wife June settled in Monte Carlo in 1982. Helmut said: ‘This is a “Toy Town” to live in, but it has always reminded me of Germany before federation … having its own court and courtiers and having a prince and […]
07.00 GMT Untitled, preparatory study from Périphérique, 2005-2008Born in 1978 in Algeria to Algerian parents, Bourouissa came to France with his mother at the age of five. He grew up at Courbevoie, a banlieue (suburb) north-west of Paris.‘Tension’ is undoubtedly the word that recurs most often in interviews with Bourouissa when he discusses his series Périphérique, […]
07.00 GMT Actor Jeremy Irons, the Midland Hotel, Manchester, 1979Brian Griffin’s autobiography Black Country DADA charts his fascinating career, covering the period 1969-90. He writes: ‘Those were analogue days! Growing up among the factories of the Black Country, studying photography in Manchester alongside my friends Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr, and then with trepidation going down […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Albrecht Dürer’s Wing Blue Roller (1512) ‘lends the bird a semblance of living glory’. Photograph: Art Heritage/Alamy Albrecht Dürer was the first great sightseer in the history of art, travelling Europe to see conjoined twins, Aztec gold, Venetian gondolas and the bones of an 18ft […]
07.15 GMT Last modified on Thu 18 Feb 2021 10.26 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Up to his loins in crisp clean snow … Damien Hirst’s 21ft-tall Temple in St Moritz, Switzerland. Photograph: Felix Friedmann/Damien Hirst and Science Ltd, DACS 2021 If anyone should have been ready for this it was Damien […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The actor José Garcia as himself in Call My Agent!, with Camille Cottin as Andréa. Photograph: Christophe Brachet/FTV/Monvoisin Prod/Mother Prod If you know, you know. The utterly charming Call My Agent! has become a word-of-mouth hit in the UK, five years after it first began […]
11.55 GMT Place category winner and overall winner: Theatre, Abkhazia by JonkJonk is a freelance self-taught photographer whose work focuses on humans and their relationship with nature. His images aim to raise awareness of the ecological crisis facing humanity. Fascinated by abandoned places reclaimed by nature, in 2018 he published Naturalia: A Chronicle of Contemporary Ruins, […]
15.58 GMT Last modified on Mon 9 Nov 2020 16.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Elliott Erwitt: ‘The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.’ Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Elliott Erwitt is a man of few words – but to get the 92-year-old photographer […]
07.00 GMT The Paris bookshop has appealed to its customers for help as sales are down almost 80% since March Facebook Twitter Pinterest A staff member picks out a book for an order Facebook Twitter Pinterest A staff member goes to deliver an online order Facebook Twitter Pinterest The celebrated Parisian bookstore has told readers it […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 09.53 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Constructive period … Sarah Sze in Paris with her installation, Twice Twilight, from her show Night Into Day. Photograph: Ed Alcock/The Guardian One click and the image on my laptop judders. When it reasserts itself, I’m looking […]
16.52 BST Last modified on Fri 23 Oct 2020 17.29 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It isn’t just the world that has changed – the very meaning of photography has changed, too’ … Frank Horvat at his exhibition A Trip Through a Mind (The iPad Exhibition), in 2012. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Detail from a page of The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow. Illustration: Sophie Yanow This comic, the original web version of which has already received an Eisner award, arrives with high praise both from Alison Bechdel, the bestselling author of Fun Home (“surprisingly, even transcendently, emotional”), […]
08.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lily Collins in Emily in Paris. Photograph: Stephanie Branchu/AP At times, I wondered what the French had done to deserve Emily in Paris (Netflix). This comedy-drama – although it is light on both – is a vehicle for Lily Collins to waltz around Paris in […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Thu 20 Aug 2020 12.49 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Arty transgressiveness … Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. Photograph: MARKA/Alamy “Cliff Richard to me is perfect, and I do love him,” writes the 16-year-old Jane Birkin, stuck at boarding school on the Isle of Wight with only […]
11.49 BST Last modified on Wed 22 Jul 2020 11.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The rite stuff … Igor Stravinsky. Photograph: Gjon Mili/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Of the composers who spearheaded modernism in music at the beginning of the 20th century, it has been Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) whose influence has […]
17.44 BST Last modified on Wed 15 Jul 2020 23.12 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jamais by Óscar Domínguez was a star attraction at the international surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1938. Photograph: Jl Denoix/Museu Picasso, Barcelona A long-lost work by the Spanish surrealist artist Óscar Domínguez that has been missing for […]
07.35 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 08.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Julie Delpy and Adam Goldberg in 2 Days in Paris, a film that reminds us you can be staying in a beautiful city with the person you love, and still have a miserable time. Photograph: AP Now […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 18 Jun 2020 10.44 BST Hergiswil, 1982: Arnold OdermattOdermatt worked as a police lieutenant in Switzerland. His photographic work was discovered while his son, director Urs Odermatt, was researching for a film. Arnold took this image of his car after a hotel in Hergiswil burned down. Photo Basel is online until […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 2 Jun 2020 11.30 BST Lady Loughborough under a bell jar, 1927 In the 1920s, Beaton photographed the socialites, avant-garde artists and writers who made up the Bright Young Things. All photographs: Cecil Beaton Studio Archive. An online exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s photographs is at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, and a display […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Tue 19 May 2020 08.07 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I hung out, mostly talking to dealers’ … Amandla Stenberg and André Holland in The Eddy. Photograph: Lou Faulon/Netflix Thanks to lockdown we’ve become a nation of telly addicts – what else is there left to do? […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Wed 22 Apr 2020 12.02 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Julia Kristeva … Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian One wintry evening in Paris in 1965, a young woman flew in from Bulgaria to find that the friend of a friend supposed to meet her had forgotten to turn […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Fri 10 Apr 2020 11.02 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘The minute Trump’s not president they’re gonna put his ass in jail’ … Tommy Chong. Photograph: Canadian Press/Rex/Shutterstock Tommy Chong has got the munchies. It’s early afternoon in locked-down LA, and last night he was on the […]
Lyrics of That’s What I Like – Ysabelle Cuevas I got a condo in Manhattan Baby boy, what’s happening? You and your heart invited So gon’ and get to clappin’ Just, pop it for a pimp Pop, pop it for me Turn around and drop it for a pimp Drop, drop it for me I’ll […]
Lyrics Gucci Mane – Met gala Mil’ in a week (hey) I bought a iced out Philippe (ice) Yeah, playin’ for keeps (keeps) Suck up the gang, she a leech (leech) Came in the game with a key (key) My pockets blew up, Monique (Monique) Ooh, she got that perfect physique (ooh) I’ll tape a […]
[Chorus: Alastair] Uh, when the cameras show up, we show up And roll up and roll out Let them think what they think, it’s funny how They didn’t get it then, so they won’t now Yeah ’cause they don’t know us They can’t say what they say Don’t give us thoughts Don’t need them anyway […]
[Intro: Machine Gun Kelly] Ayy Woke up in woke up in Soundin’ real godly Quavo City rollie [?] a [?] [Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly] Woke up in Paris Broke all the mirrors (that lean) Watch me, last night was too turnt They caught me fucking on camera I ain’t embarrassed Pull up, back home, […]