Elena Clavarino

6 days ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

The 1980s, the fashion photographer David Bailey recalls, were “the first time the Americans wanted to come to London instead of Londoners wanting to go to New York.” And London delivered. The Rolling Stones. David Bowie. Elton John. As Mick Jagger’s American girlfriend Jerry Hall said, “Mick and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night.

1 week ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

When Frank Fournier moved to New York City, in 1975, it was a radical departure from everything he’d known. He had studied medicine for four years in his native France, but in his late 20s he pivoted. He was going to become a photojournalist. The city was bankrupt, dirty, and dangerous but also teeming with artistic voices. Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, James Baldwin, and even Grandmaster Flash were meeting downtown, opening galleries, writing, and pioneering new kinds of music.

2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

In 1920, the poet Paul Éluard and the literary theorist Jean Paulhan joined forces to create a magazine. They felt that existing rubrics in Paris, such as Littérature and La Nouvelle Revue Française, were too tethered to the past and too loyal to outdated artistic styles, Cubism included. Dada—the anarchic, anti-art movement born in Zurich during the war—was spreading across Europe, promoted by incendiary manifestos, performances, and journals that mocked logic and tradition.

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

E.A. (Elizabeth Anne) Hanks’s literary debut has been a long time coming. After a decade of work, her book, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, finally hit the shelves last week. The story is a personal one, weaving between a road trip she took as a teenager with her mother, Susan Dillingham, and one she took alone as an adult, in which she retraced that original journey along Interstate 10.

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Elena Clavarino

Over a 20-year career, the photojournalist Guillaume Bonn has documented civil wars in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi, and the displacement of pastoralist communities in Kenya and Tanzania. Bonn grew up in Kenya, as did his father and grandfather before him, and his distinctive style—raw and unflinching—has made him a mainstay in magazines such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.