by Nicolas Genty | Aug 24, 2026 | Blog
David Levinthal is one of those photographers who makes you question what you are actually looking at. Using toys, dolls and the miniature figures of my youth, he constructs carefully staged scenes that look almost like documentary photographs, playing with our ideas...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 17, 2026 | Blog
I levitated with Helen Levitt in November 2021 in London as reported here. It was an opportunity offered to discover a magnificent Helen Levitt retrospective at the equally magnificent Photographers’ Gallery in Soho, tracing her decades-long observation of everyday...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 18, 2026 | Blog
“I’m Still Standing” is the song Madeleine de Sinéty could have sung upon learning she would be sharing the galleries of the Musée du Jeu de Paume with a star like Elton John. It is no easy task to stand alongside a world-class collection built with thousands upon...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 16, 2026 | Blog
When the first name is Sir Elton, I’m not sure it’s fair to pretend you are at all going to try to keep up with those Johnses. The means are very different, no matter what. So different, in fact, that the Musée du Jeu de Paume has put together an...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog
Kazuo Kitai is one of Japan’s great photographers, although he remains relatively unknown in Europe and was entirely unknown to me. It was my friend L’Oeil Curieux, in one of his brilliant and very personal notes, who sparked my curiosity and led me to...
