Photography

From the archive | Martin Parr's Miami

With Art Basel week in full swing, we sent the Magnum photographer on a tour of the city’s fairs and museums to see what caught his eye

Prada Foundation moves into photography with new gallery in Milan’s oldest shopping arcade

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is where fashion brand opened its first store in 1913

Photographer Steve McCurry speaks out against arrest of Sharbat Gula, the 'Afghan girl with green eyes'

Subject of famous National Geographic cover has been detained in Pakistan for allegedly using fraudulent ID documents<br>

Gordon Parks, photographer who chronicled African-American life, the focus of shows in Washington, DC and Berlin

The National Gallery has acquired 173 of his pictures to its collection, while a survey of his work starts its tour of Germany

Photographers Mert & Marcus get first major solo show at London auction house

Collectors will be able to buy the duo’s fashion magazine images for the first time at Phillips this autumn

The ICP takes the downtown plunge with Bowery reopening

New venue has roughly the same exhibition space as its former midtown site, but offers easier public access in a more art-friendly location

Photo London takes over Somerset House

New tent in the courtyard and ambitious public programme sees photography fair establish its presence in the capital

Tehran museum’s historic photography collection emerges from the shadows

Lewis Carroll’s photographs of Alice Liddell and Steichen’s portrait of Rodin among images collected before the Iranian revolution

Object Lessons: our pick of this week's photography auctions

Highlights going under the hammer in London at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips

Race to digitise photographs chronicling the birth of Bangladesh

The late photojournalist Rashid Talukder buried his politically sensitive images to hide them from the military regime

Malick Sidibé, photographer of Bamako's 1960s youth culture, dies aged 80

He was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2007

Museums and galleries turn to the work of Gordon Parks

In the ten years since the artist’s death, interest in his work has steadily grown

Save the data: New York Public Library launches online biographical archive for photographers

Started by one man based on a now defunct database, the Photographers’ Identities Catalogue could one day become a community-driven wiki

Martin Parr shows Britain in all its 'stiff upper-lipped, jubilant glory'

Barbican exhibition presents the country through the lenses of 23 photographers from abroad

The heart of Islam on view in Washington, DC

As US presidential candidates debate Muslim immigration, Saudi artist Ahmed Mater depicts the ultra-conservative country’s urban redevelopment in Smithsonian show

Fairsnews

Can Photo San Francisco succeed where Paris Photo Los Angeles failed?

New photography fair to test the market in California next year

Tate photo show gives insight into ‘the vision of the new Tate Modern’

Performing for the Camera is an in-depth survey of the photography of performance

Artnews

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

Artnews

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

Artnews

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