Opinion: Photography
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…
Inner space man
Mike Halliwell’s montages illustrate J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition with a flair that evokes…
Age of the female gaze
Girl on Girl – a new survey of 40 contemporary photographers – raises questions about the nature of…
Double satori
For photographer Sergio Larrain (1931-2012), making pictures was a form of spiritual quest. Photo Critique…
Traces of a drifter
Camera in hand, Harry Pearce dives into the urban underbelly in search of the unfathomable. Photo…