Rick Poynor

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Body as Factory: Anatomy of an Image

Peeling back the skin of a New Scientist cover illustration by Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Typewriter

Typewriters are making a comeback and, as a wide-ranging new survey book shows, so is typewriter art.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Filmic Page: Chris Marker’s Commentaires

The French director Chris Marker’s book Commentaires is as innovative as book design as his documentaries are as films.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Why Tatlin Can Never Go Home Again

Raoul Hausmann’s photomontage Tatlin at Home is much pinned on Pinterest, but what has become of the original?

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Compulsively Visual World of Pinterest

I have always liked Pinterest’s exclusively visual focus and unlimited boards structure. A week ago I joined.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Martin Sharp: People, Politics and Pop

Martin Sharp rediscovered: drawings and collages from the book People, Politics and Pop: Australians in the Sixties.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Martin Sharp: From Satire to Psychedelia

The late Martin Sharp was a visual innovator whose work erased artificial distinctions between applied image-making and fine art.

Rick Poynor|Interviews

Collage Culture: Nostalgia and Critique

An interview with David Banash, author of Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Belgian Solutions: The True State of Things?

The foul-ups or “Belgian solutions” in a new book of street photographs are simply the way things are.

Rick Poynor|Essays

From the Archive: Brian Eno, Artist of Light

An early profile of ambient musician and producer Brian Eno’s parallel career as a visual artist.

Rick Poynor|Essays

New York: City of Spectacular Doors

For six years, Allan Markman crisscrossed New York taking pictures of remarkable doors for a new book.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Bohumil Stepan’s Family Album of Oddities

Bohumil Stepan’s Familienalbum presents a series of surreally equipped and irreverently modified collages of his family.