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Joan Juliet Buck


Found in Translation

The French may never forgive Richard Linklater for having made the best film of the nouvelle vague, on the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless

Anatomy of an It Girl

How a British woman named Jane became the French bag named Birkin

Lartigue on La Côte d’Azur

In the early 30s, the photographer and playboy Jacques-Henri Lartigue took a job shooting a movie on the French Riviera. The film went nowhere—but Lartigue became a legend

June Newton

Helmut Newton was “the King of Kink,” but his wife, who died at 97 in Monte Carlo, was the mastermind behind the camera