Photography
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Discover Rotimi Fani-Kayode's fluid photographs of the queer male body, on show in London
‘Rotimi-Fani Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire’ at Autograph ABP celebrates the work of the Nigerian-born photographer
By Upasana Das Published
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‘American Photography’: centuries-spanning show reveals timely truths
At the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Europe’s first major survey of American photography reveals the contradictions and complexities that have long defined this world superpower
By Daisy Woodward Published
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Era-defining photographer David Bailey guides us through the 1980s in a new tome not short of shoulder pads and lycra
From Yves Saint Laurent to Princess Diana, London photographer David Bailey dives into his 1980s archive in a new book by Taschen
By Tianna Williams Published
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Photographing free time in South Korea: rare days off captured in new book
Free time is hard-earned in South Korea. In Seunggu Kim's new photography book 'Better Days,' he captures the beauty of the country at play
By Hannah Silver Published
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Remembering Oliviero Toscani, fashion photographer and author of provocative Benetton campaigns
Best known for the controversial adverts he shot for the Italian fashion brand, former art director Oliviero Toscani has died, aged 82
By Anna Solomon Published
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Distracting decadence: how Silvio Berlusconi’s legacy shaped Italian TV
Stefano De Luigi's monograph Televisiva examines how Berlusconi’s empire reshaped Italian TV, and subsequently infiltrated the premiership
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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'There were many radical nuns': Andrea Modica's photographs document 1980s all-girls Catholic schools in Brooklyn
Andrea Modica’s ‘Catholic Girl’ looks back to her own childhood
By Upasana Das Published
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Sharon Smith's Polaroids capture 1980s New York nightlife
IDEA Books has launched a new monograph of Smith’s photographs, titled Camera Girl and edited by former editor-in-chief of LIFE magazine, Bill Shapiro
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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The contemporary photographers making collaboration an art form
We profile five photographers that have each forged a multifaceted, distinctive career in image-making
By Emily Steer Published
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‘I asked people to give me eight hours of their sleep’: Sophie Calle revisits her artistic experiment
‘The Sleepers’ by Sophie Calle is published in English for the first time
By Hannah Silver Published
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How a sprawling new book honours the legacy of cult photographer Larry Fink
‘Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking’ pays homage to an American master. ‘He had this ability to connect,’ says publisher Daniel Power
By Jordan Bassett Published
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From activism and capitalism to club culture and subculture, a new exhibition offers a snapshot of 1980s Britain
The turbulence of a colourful decade, as seen through the lens of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications, is on show at Tate Britain until May 2025
By Anne Soward Published
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For these female photographers, the body is a tool of political dissent
The work of Liliana Maresca and Gundula Schulze Eldowy, who both lived in political turmoil, was celebrated at this year’s Artissima art fair in Turin. Discover their work here
By Finn Blythe Published
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A photographic study of a family hi-fi store is a vivid portrait of a small business
Fashion photographer Nik Hartley looked behind the scenes at Wilkinson’s Hi-Fi, a longstanding part of its Lancashire community.
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Discover Eve Arnold’s intimate unseen images of Marilyn Monroe
‘Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold’, published by ACC Art Books, is a personal portrayal of an icon
By Hannah Silver Published
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Circling back: Lars Tunbjörk's uncanny office photography is revisited in a new book
First published in 2001 and long since sold out, 'Office' is revisited this month by the publisher Loose Joints, released with a second volume shot in Los Angeles, the previously unpublished LA Office
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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Bombed-out bunkers to nuclear disasters: Thomas Demand on the state of the image
On the heels of his Houston MFA retrospective and ahead of its opening in Taipei in January 2025, German artist Thomas Demand reflects on today’s image culture
By Adrian Madlener Published
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Colin Greenwood's intimate portraits of Radiohead capture the band at work and play
Colin Greenwood's portraits of Radiohead have been collected in a new photography book, 'How To Disappear'
By Craig McLean Published
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‘People are really in their element’: Martin Parr on capturing bar culture, and his look back with Campari
Magnum Photos and Campari join forces for ‘Bar Stories on Camera’, currently on view in Turin, including works by Martin Parr
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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‘My headstands are acts of defiance and liberation’: Matthew Hyndman at Bard
In Edinburgh, artist and activist Matthew Hyndman presents ‘Upended’ at Bard, a series of vulnerable photographs with a meaningful yet cheeky nature
By Tianna Williams Published
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Dark, glamorous and hedonistic: a photography book captures New York in the 1990s
New York: High Life, Low Life, by Dafydd Jones, goes behind the scenes of New York society
By Hannah Silver Published
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The glory days of Butlin’s: John Hinde’s photographs on show in London
John Hinde’s photographs of Butlin’s in the 1960s-70s lead an exhibition celebrating the British seaside at The Photographers' Gallery in London
By Hannah Silver Published
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Intimacy, violence and the uncanny: Joanna Piotrowska in Philadelphia
Artist and photographer Joanna Piotrowska stages surreal scenes at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania
By Hannah Silver Published
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Marc Hom reframes traditional portraiture in Cooperstown, NY
‘Marc Hom: Re-Framed’ has taken over the grounds of the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, planting Samuel L Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow and more ‘personalities of the world’ into the landscape
By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Published
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‘Happy birthday Louise Parker II’: enter the world of Roe Ethridge
Roe Ethridge speaks of his concurrent Gagosian exhibitions, in Gstaad and London, touching on his fugue approach to photography, fridge doors, and his longstanding collaborator Louise Parker
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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‘The danger of AI’, photography and the future at Foam
New project ‘Photography Through the Lens of AI’ asks the big questions at Foam, Amsterdam
By Hannah Silver Published
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Celebrating James Barnor, the photographer who captured pre- and post-colonial Ghana
Photographer James Barnor is in the spotlight at 95, his work the subject of a series of exhibitions and events in Ghana
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published