PARIS--Roger Therond, who turned French magazine Paris Match into one of the world's best outlets for photojournalism, died yesterday at his home in Paris, the magazine said. He was 76. Mr. Therond joined Paris Match in 1949, moving up the ranks until he became director and editor-in-chief in 1976. During his 50-year career, he was known for having an eye for breathtaking photos. "We have lost one of the most original and captivating figures of the...
KEREM WAS A 17-year-old in Istanbul when he first read about San Francisco in a French magazine. He gazed at pictures of parents marching in the Gay Freedom Day parade with signs that said, "My son's gay and that's OK." He couldn't let his friends see the article that caught his interest, but he made up his mind that he would find a way to come to San Francisco. "I had learned there is a place in the world where you can go...
The Azerbaijani leader has urged the international public to increase pressure on Armenia over the Karabakh conflict and to step up efforts aimed at finding a speedy solution to the problem. In an interview with the French magazine Le Lettre Diplomatique, he said that organized international crime groups are active in Karabakh and described the area as a great source of threat to security in the South Caucasus. Aliyev added that peace and security in the region could only be restored after...
This is by any reckoning one of the strangest books in many a moon. Its author, Catherine Millet, is the editor of the French magazine Art Press and an art scholar of some renown, the author of eight volumes of well-regarded art criticism. She's a lucid, elegant prose stylist, strongly opinionated and capable of marshaling forcible arguments. All in all a most impressive person.Still, to say Millet primarily leads the life of the mind would be a joke. As she documents in...
Roger Therond, who turned the French magazine Paris Match into one of the world's best outlets for photojournalism, died Saturday at home in Paris, the magazine said. He was 76. Mr. Therond joined Paris Match in 1949, moving up the ranks until he became director and editor in chief in 1976. During his 50-year career, he was known for having an eye for picking breathtaking photos.|Roger Therond, editor of French magazine Paris Match, dies at age 76; photo (M) Born October 24,...