Photography

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Frank Lloyd Wright + Katniss Everdeen

On photographing architecture as sculpture and telling stories via architecture.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Typographic Stories of the City Streets

Characters, a new book by Stephen Banham, investigates the stories behind Melbourne’s street signs.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Unspeakable Pleasure of Ruins

“Ruin porn,” a reductive tag that makes any photograph of ruins seem suspect, ignores the cultural history of the ruin.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: A Classic by Berger and Mohr

John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man brilliantly fuses words and photos to examine a doctor’s life.

Michelle Hauser|Interviews

Pop Photographica: An Interview with Daile Kaplan

Daile Kaplan’s comprehensive collection all has one unifying trait: a photographic element that was not intended for viewing on the wall.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Ernst Haas and the Color Underground

Has Ernst Haas, an early master of color photography, received the credit his ground-breaking pictures deserve?

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

A New American Picture: Doug Rickard and Street Photography in the Age of Google

When Google launched Street View in 2007, it was just the ticket for photographer Doug Rickard.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Infinite Warehouse of Images

The more photos we collectively produce, the more ruthless we need to be about bestowing our attention.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Should We Look at Corrosive Images?

What do violent photographs of war do to us as viewers?

Photo by Iain McKell|Gallery

The New Gypsies

Photographer Iain McKell documents England's romantic travelers

Rick Poynor|Essays

Funerary Portraits: Snapshots in Stone

The portrait sculptures in the Cimetière du château in Nice resuscitate their subjects with a frequently startling vividness.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Andrzej Klimowski: Transmitting the Image

Andrzej Klimowski, author of a new book, On Illustration, has used the medium to create a compelling alternative reality.