Opinion: Photography
Recolouring the past
At a time when image falsification is a source of concern, the digital colourisation of documentary…
Instant object of desire
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
A Polaroid photo’s aura of ephemeral uniqueness lies in its small white frame and supercharged surface.…
Whiteness made strange
A brave, if flawed book of artists’ photographs addresses racism through the lens of white privilege.…
Scalpel sharp
Critique / Photography, Visual culture
A UK retrospective examines the explosive photomontages of feminist artist Linder, from the shock of her…
Among the spirits
Nadav Kander’s poetic and mysterious portraits of celebrities steal the limelight in his new book The…
Four-wheeled dreams
A new V&A book of photographs of cars fails to acknowledge the bigger picture. Photo Critique by Rick…
Defiance and revelation
A new book of Peter Kennard’s work adds context and background detail to his angry, radical…
Banquet of images
For its 50th anniversary, the Arles festival stages a
generous array of contemporary and historical…
Nature in captivity
Luigi Ghirri’s rigorously composed pictures of plants outside people’s homes exercise a banal…
A confederacy of lunches
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
A text-only book argues that ‘social’ photography is more about self-documentation than aesthetics. By…