Critique
Critique (established 1999) is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
Art of darkness
Indie magazine Hellebore channels folk horror and the occult with an alchemical sense of graphic style. Critique by Rick Poynor
Overloading the page
A big survey of Dutch photobooks raises issues about visual editing and layout. Critique by Rick Poynor
This is a column
Design that tells the story of its own making harks back to conceptual art of the 1960s. By Rick Poynor
Unfinished business
Scott King’s rallying call for creative freedom takes a satirical swipe at cultural gatekeepers. By Rick Poynor
Experiments in destabilisation
A CalArts book celebrates decades of purposeful graphic weirdness. Critique by Rick Poynor
Los Angeles’ lost palace of treasures
Using photographic evidence, designer Mark Nelson has reconstructed one of the great twentieth-century art collections. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
Heroes of wealth and power
An essay published in Mack’s new ‘Discourse’ series accuses three prominent photographers of creating propaganda for global capitalism.
Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
Godard becomes ‘Godard’
In 1961, the new wave director posed for a German fashion photographer. The publicity pictures that followed are as self-reflexive as his films. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
Palaces of petroleum
The adventurous design of a 1960 book promoting Australia’s fossil fuel industry offers a poignant glimpse of an optimistic, unquestioning age.Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
The haunted shore
Images of spectral sea-bathers haunt the light-filled pages of Nigel Grierson’s self-published photobook.
Photo Critique by Rick Poynor