Eye Magazine

Opinion: Critique / Photography

Awkward objects

The tradition of the painted still life has been reinvented by contemporary photographers with pictures that pose a puzzle and slow the viewer down. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Streets without people

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans explores the clotted terrain of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Shinjuku districts with the eye of a graphic designer

Hole in the head

Graphic design, Photography, Critique / Photography

An artful book of deliberately torn, anonymous photographs from the Cold War era leaves many questions unanswered. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Cinematic view

Critique / Photography

A recent edition of Aperture examines the enduring affinity between two art forms. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Twisting the alien

New media, Photography, Reviews, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Set to minimalist techno, Arthur Jafa’s APEX is a cycle of images that illuminate the condition of black people within white-dominated culture. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor