Eye Magazine

Opinion: Visual culture

Heroes of wealth and power

Magazines, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

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’

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

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

Instant object of desire

Photography, Typography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

A Polaroid photo’s aura of ephemeral uniqueness lies in its small white frame and supercharged surface. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Scalpel sharp

Graphic design, Music design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

A UK retrospective examines the explosive photomontages of feminist artist Linder, from the shock of her punk collages to pictures that juxtapose provocation with flowers and dance

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

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

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

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