Critique
Critique is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
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…
Elton John’s new vision
‘The Radical Eye’, the superstar’s opulently framed collection of modernist photography, is a…
Feminist scrutiny
Photographs challenge norms of female sexuality, beauty and domesticity. The first in a new series of…
Browsing, or reading?
A new shop demonstrates the global resurgence of indie magazines. Critique by Rick Poynor
From trade to poetry
Barcelona’s new Museu del Disseny shows how design can claim a space for itself. Critique by Rick Poynor…
Depth and ambiguity
Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the photographic…
Cold War culture-jammer
Hispanic photomonteur Josep Renau aimed Technicolor jets of scorn at the mirage of US consumerist…