Photography

Rick Poynor|Essays

Saul Leiter and the Typographic Fragment

In Saul Leiter's color photographs, the fragment is infinitely more mysterious and suggestive than the whole.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Found, Cut, and Rearranged: The Art of John Stezaker

For almost four decades, the artist John Stezaker has been appropriating “found” photographs and focusing on a new way of seeing.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: American Family by Ralph Eugene Meatyard

The otherness of other people

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Oildale by Rudy VanderLans

The dismal beauty of an oil field

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Incidental Pleasures of Street Art

Sprawling, evolving, accreting: a collection of recent street art photos from Portugal and Spain.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Woman Mailing a Letter by Clifton R. Adams

The spell of vintage color

Rick Poynor|Essays

Jan van Toorn: The World in a Calendar

Jan van Toorn’s provocative 1972/73 calendar for the printer Mart.Spruijt has been reprinted by a Dutch design company.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Thin Line

Mann(ish)

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Morandi’s Objects by Joel Meyerowitz

The sublime in ordinary things

Rick Poynor|Essays

Collage Now, Part 1: Sergei Sviatchenko

In a crowded field, Sergei Sviatchenko’s highly reductive photo-collages look like his own and no one else’s.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Conceptual Advertising of J.G. Ballard

J.G. Ballard’s conceptual ads anticipated the emergence of culture jamming, subvertising, design fiction and speculative design.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Striporama street scene by Vivian Maier

How good was the photographer nanny?