The photographer FANNY LATOUR-LAMBER Paris-based Fanny Latour-Lambert says ...

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The making of the cover of the latest Portrait of Britain book, as told to Peter Dench

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

Last April, a surprising photograph (see near right) appeared on the Wikipedia page devoted to Jeanne Duval, the long-term mistress of Charles Baudelaire and the “Black Venus” who inspired some of the

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