Opinion: Photography

 
Defiance and revelation

Defiance and revelation

Photography, Critique / Photography

A new book of Peter Kennard’s work adds context and background detail to his angry, radical photomontages. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Banquet of images

Banquet of images

Photography, Critique / Photography

For its 50th anniversary, the Arles festival stages a generous array of contemporary and historical exhibitions. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor.
 
Nature in captivity

Nature in captivity

Photography, Critique / Photography

Luigi Ghirri’s rigorously composed pictures of 
plants outside people’s homes exercise a banal fascination. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
A confederacy of lunches

A confederacy of lunches

Food design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

A text-only book argues that ‘social’ photography is more about self-documentation than aesthetics. By Rick Poynor
 
Catalogue of things

Catalogue of things

Critical path, Photography, Uncategorized, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

A close relative’s colour slides show a densely layered record of everyday life. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
From out of the blue

From out of the blue

Photography, Critique / Photography

Volume one of Anna Atkins’ beautiful study of British algae, issued in 1843, was the first ever publication to be printed using photography. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Awkward objects

Awkward objects

Photography, Critique / Photography

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

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

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
 
Twisting the alien

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
 
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