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Historic agreement puts V&A in pole position for photography

Move draws criticism as Bradford's National Media Museum transfers 400,000 photographic items to London

Doctor Who star Matt Smith to play Mapplethorpe

Production on biopic, which will also feature Girls actress Zosia Mamet, will begin in the summer

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Leila Alaoui, a talent cut short by terrorists in Burkina Faso

33-year-old's works were on show at Maison européenne de la Photographie shortly before she was killed

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Dubai turns to photography in bid to become UAE’s premier arts hub

Dubai Photo Exhibition to launch in March with works from 23 countries

Abbas Kiarostami on his fixation with doors, the still image and carpentry

The Iranian film-maker is showing a photographic series he’s worked on for 20 years at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum

US photographer with historic Cuban show comes to Miami

Peter Turnley is due to speak at the Miami Street Photography Festival

Catherine Opie creates monumental work for Los Angeles courthouse

Artist reveals how Yosemite Falls inspired her biggest public art project so far

Sebastião Salgado’s perseverance pays off in Shanghai

Natural history museum is more receptive than city’s art spaces

Take two: world tour for Annie Leibovitz’s updated Women series

US photographer keeps it quiet and in the family for new works

Photo collection dedicated to women to be sold in Paris

Italian fashion photographer Amedeo Turello has amassed 200 images over more than 20 years

Getty seeks to preserve memory of Palmyra's Roman ruins through acquisition of rare photography collection

French naval officer Louis Vignes took images of Beirut, Lebanon and Syria in 1864

Satirical, playful, irreverent: David D’Arcy on the photographer Robert Frank

A new documentary about the photographer provides an intimate look

It runs in the family: Shelley Rice on Alexander Nemerov’s family portrait

Diane Arbus and her brother, the poet Howard Nemerov, are the subject of a new memoir-cum-history

Walther Collection brings African photographers to New York

Project space will host three-year series of exhibitions starting in September

Fleeting joy: José da Silva on Christopher Williams at Whitechapel Gallery

There was room for improvement in the first UK retrospective of the American artist

How little man-made boxes are used to capture bigger ones

Great architectural photographers have moved far beyond mere documentation

International photography centre joins Shanghai’s museum mile

Globetrotting photojournalist launches photography centre in the West Bund Cultural Corridor

Photo London leads charge to bring photography market to UK

New fair—plus auctions and gallery shows—champion the reproducible image this week

Mapplethorpe’s 'obscene' exhibition revisited 25 years on

Symposium will examine the 1989 show that led to trial of museum director

15 years of Margulies' Miami Warehouse

The educational mission of Martin Margulies’s collection is as strong as ever

Photo shows that made history

As a new book surveys landmark photographic exhibitions, museums are only starting to catch up with the digital revolution of the medium

Wolfgang Tillmans at the Venice Architecture Biennale: Journeys into space

Wolfgang Tillmans’s Venice work explores architectural details, grand and humble, from 37 countries

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Parr and Badger's photobook trilogy completed with The Photobook: a History

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explore propaganda, conflict, sex, and death

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Peter Fraser: The photographer filling a gap

This Tate catalogue expands on the British photographer Peter Fraser