Magnum Contact Sheets go under the microscope
A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique
Books: A heavyweight volume trawls the archives of Magnum Photos to celebrate a once revolutionary, now dying technique
In between the (contact) sheets
A first-rate history of photography, the V&A museum and its pioneering collecting
Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department
Interview with Roger Ballen on his new book Shadow Chamber: Going fishing, metaphorically speaking
The South African photographer talks about his work, techniques and latest book
Tate: how we collect photography
Not a study or a technical collection, but works of art for display
Interview with artist Thomas Joshua Cooper on his new show: At the edge, between lands and sea
Cooper is mapping out a metaphysical space with his images of oceans, forests, rocks and sky
Thomas Ruff retrospective begins a three-year tour
The German photographer compares his serial working method to “a scientist carrying out a series of experiments”
Perry Ogden, John Edwards, 7 Reece Mews
Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
Books: The photography of Bill Brandt
This handsome overview spans the celebrated photographer's entire career
Jane Evelyn Atwood's new book 'Too much time: women in prison' reviewed
“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”
Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A
How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time
Ninetieth-birthday tributes to Cartier-Bresson at the V&A
The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection
Photojournalists and the Balkan War
Magnum photographers are among those making the images by which this tragedy will be remembered—but which may also eventually fuel the art market
“Private dreams and unknowable pleasures” in early photography
Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition
Martin Parr describes in an interview how he picks up on clichés and consumerism
Multiple common sense courtesy of Xerox
Gilles Mora, Photospeak: a guide to the ideas, movements and techniques of photography, 1839 to the present (Abbeville Press, New York, 1998), 216 pp, 50 b/w ills, 13 col. ills, £20 (hb) ISBN 0789203707, £12.95 (pb) ISBN 0789200686
A Review of Mora's new book on photography
American photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vernacular aesthetics and aesthetic vernacular
The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it