Rick Poynor
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Rick Poynor|Exposure
Exposure: American Family by Ralph Eugene Meatyard
The otherness of other people
Rick Poynor|Exposure
Exposure: Morandi’s Objects by Joel Meyerowitz
The sublime in ordinary things
Rick Poynor|Exposure
Exposure: Oildale by Rudy VanderLans
The dismal beauty of an oil field
Rick Poynor|Exposure
Exposure: Untitled Film Still #21 by Cindy Sherman
The photographer as performer
Rick Poynor|Exposure
Exposure: Nurse Midwife by W. Eugene Smith
The mystery of birth
Rick Poynor|Reviews
Barney Bubbles: Optics and Semantics
“Get Happy!!” poster for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, 1980Barney Bubbles has a unique place in British graphic design. Even more than Robert Brownjohn, who also died much too soon, Bubbles feels both known and unknown. If only we could interview him now we could finally get …
Rick Poynor|Dialogues
We Found It at the Movies: Part I
Rick Poynor: Looking back, it’s surprising how long we’d known each other before it emerged that we shared an obsession for film. Adrian Shaughnessy: Your obsession with film came as a surprise. Before lending you the Herzog box set I had you tagged as a visual …
Rick Poynor|Dialogues
We Found It at the Movies: Part II
The second installment of Rick Poynor and Adrian Shaughnessy’s conversation about film. Can genre movies express a personal vision? Are films blurring into other media? And what’s the state of film culture today?
Denise Gonzales Crisp|Dialogues
A Critical View of Graphic Design History
Now comes yet another historical survey, Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide by Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish. Denise Gonzales Crisp and Rick Poynor have been marking pages, making notes and exchanging views...
Rick Poynor|Essays
Lost America: The Flamingo Motor Hotel
I found this old photo in a box at the back of my attic. It shows a motel in Flagstaff, Arizona where I stayed for a couple of nights in May 1978. I was 20, it was my first visit to the US, and for three weeks I had been touring around on Greyhound buses.
Rick Poynor|Essays
Dancing to the Sound in Your Head
We might not appreciate advertising conducted like a saturation bombing campaign in public spaces. Yet now, to complicate things, the personal stereo is being used as a way of reasserting spontaneity, exuberance and passion in over-controlled public places.
Rick Poynor|Essays
Emigre: An Ending
Issue 69 of Emigre will be the last. In its heyday, it was the most consistently interesting design publication produced by anyone, anywhere. By 1990, it was one of those magazines you simply had to get hold of and read straight away.