Opinion: Photography
Streets without people
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans explores the clotted terrain of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Shinjuku districts with the…
Hole in the head
An artful book of deliberately torn, anonymous photographs from the Cold War era leaves many questions…
Twisting the alien
Reviews, Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Set to minimalist techno, Arthur Jafa’s APEX is a cycle of images that illuminate the condition of black…
Scenes from an imperfect world
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Even Don McCullin expressed doubts about his photographs of war and suffering. What is their message…
Colour field
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
By choosing colour over black-and-white, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered a new type of American street…
Fabricated reality
Andreas Gursky’s photographs, manipulated like digital paintings, have spectacular impact. But they can…
Witness of the moment
A book of informal interviews with Henri Cartier-Bresson is testament to a great photographer’s…
Relentless riches
Critique / Photography, Front matter
A busy blockbuster traces the stunning history of Japanese photobooks. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
Mississippi dreaming
Alec Soth’s photographic journey along the Mississippi merges the documentary with the poetic. Photo…
Graphic language of the wall
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti with handwritten typographic treatments made striking, almost punkish…