Photography

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

Booksarchive

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

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

Cataloguesarchive

Peter Fraser: The photographer filling a gap

This Tate catalogue expands on the British photographer Peter Fraser

Basquiat in love and in the nude: Newly revealed photographs of the artist art to go on display

A former girlfriend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is to exhibit works from her personal archive, including a series of black-and-white nude portraits of the artist, who died in 1988

Magnum Contact Sheets go under the microscope

A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique

Interview with Vito Acconci: From my space to yours

Shaking off the "continental" label has been a lifetime's work

New Met exhibition explores pre-digital manipulation of photography

Photographers began manipulating their work long before the digital era

Tate to redact photo archive

Post discussions, a decision is made

Booksarchive

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 Thomas Struth: “Photographs reveal people’s inner agenda”

On the eve of his solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Struth talks about society, the family and the gaze

Photography auction report: Americana and fashion photography in vogue

Market gains ground as annual auctions bring in new collectors

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge subject of new biography and exhibition catalogue

The “discoverer” of animal locomotion influenced artists including Francis Bacon

Artist’s copyright versus curator’s freedom of expression: The wider legal significance of the Beuys case

The estate of Joseph Beuys has brought the Museum Schloss Moyland to court over photographs of Beuys' performance art

Interview with Michael Nyman: “There’s no scripts, no rehearsals, no actors…”

The composer explains the thinking behind his latest film, and reminisces about the parties held by a Frieze founder’s dad