Photography

Magda Biernat|Gallery

The Hard Sell

Images from "Betel Nut Beauties": photos by Magda Biernat.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: Nairn’s London

Inside the architecture critic Ian Nairn’s classic, idiosyncratic guide to London’s buildings and spaces.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Discovered by Chance in a Paris Arcade

What better way to pass a couple of spare hours in Paris than to visit the covered arcades that were, for the Surrealists, some of the best places to encounter the marvellous?

Photo by Milton Rogovin|Gallery

The Poetry of Simplicity

Pablo Neruda on the photographer Milton Rogovin

Photo by Jason Orton|Gallery

Built Not to Last

Photo of prefab London housting development slated for demolition.

Rick Poynor|Essays

W.G. Sebald: Writing with Pictures

How do the great German writer's notoriously tricky visual fictions compare with reality?

Photo by Thomas Struth|Gallery

Vanishing Point

Bukseo Dong, Pyongyang, North Korea 2007. Photo by Thomas Struth

Julie Lasky|Projects

Bigshot Camera Update

Reporting the status of an innovative children's camera in development

Nancy Levinson|Essays

Art Talks

Adam Lowe and Peter Greenaway at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City; Justin Partyka and Sir Terry Farrell at Eleven Spitalfields in London,

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Pretty Pictures, Bad Judgment

If a picture's worth a thousand words, a publically broadcast picture is amplified, multiplied and cast out into a world where it can go anywhere.

Michelle Hauser|Interviews

A Fluid and Expressive Medium: Interview with Robert E. Jackson

In recent years, a new breed of photographer has emerged: the camera-less Photographer. This new generation — many of whom self-identify as collectors — has reinvented the process once again. Michelle Hauser …

John Thackara|Essays

Look — Or Connect?

In a photography and book project called Shelter Henk Wildschut documents found shelters. Perhaps we should not judge these images by what they make *us* feel, but by which they cause to connect, with the people they portray.