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Sheila Metzner’s jewel-toned fashion photography goes on show in Los Angeles
‘Sheila Metzner: From Life’ is at the Getty Center until 18 February 2024, including her richly toned fashion photography and still lifes; the artist tells us more
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Published
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‘Don McCullin in Rome’: a major retrospective spans peace and pain
‘Don McCullin in Rome’ is showing until 28 January at Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, bringing together the photographer’s most radical experiences
By Hannah Silver Published
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Willie Christie book casts style and celebrity in a cinematic light
‘Willie Christie: a very distinctive style: Then & Now’ by ACC Art Books looks back on the glamour of the 1970s
By Hannah Silver Published
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First look at career-spanning Helmut Newton exhibition, ‘Fact & Fiction’
Major upcoming exhibition ’Fact & Fiction’ will celebrate fashion photographer Helmut Newton’s influential oeuvre this autumn in A Coruña, Spain
By Jack Moss Published
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The big sleep: a photography book captures subjects in slumber
Dorothy Sing Zhang photographs those asleep in bed for her debut book, ‘Like Someone Alive’
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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Pirelli Calendar 2024: behind the scenes with Tiwa Savage, Angela Bassett and Naomi Campbell
Prince Gyasi’s Pirelli Calendar 2024 includes Angela Bassett, Naomi Campbell, Idris Elba and King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II
By Hannah Silver Published
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‘These Americans’: Will Vogt documents the USA’s rich at play
Will Vogt’s photo book ‘These Americans’ is a deep dive into a world of privilege and excess, spanning 1969 to 1996
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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A behind-the-scenes look at the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents
We travel to Arles for the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, with photographer Dexter Navy
By Mary Cleary Published
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Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s dynamic nudes explore power and purity in new photo book
Luis Alberto Rodriguez, a Dominican-American dancer-turned-photographer, combines a choreographic approach to the body with nods to heritage and family in new book ‘O’
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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Last chance to see: ‘A Hard Man is Good to Find!’ at The Photographers’ Gallery, London
‘A Hard Man is Good to Find!’ – newly open at London’s Photographers’ Gallery – is a delectable survey of queer photographs of the male body created in London between the 1930s and early 1990s
By Benoit Loiseau Last updated
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Kent Andreasen on failed memories, the fear of AI, and keeping things simple
Cape Town-based photographer Kent Andreasen features in ‘Through the lens’, our monthly series spotlighting Wallpaper* contributors
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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V&A’s completed Photography Centre opens with flames, rockets and snake-like Hoovers
The second and final phase of the V&A Photography Centre will open on 25 May 2023, becoming the largest of its type in the UK
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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How Richard Avedon brought a new flavour of glamour to photography
On the centenary of Avedon’s birth, ‘Avedon: Glamorous’ at Hamiltons gallery explores how the photographer defined a new era, of fame, glamour and sophistication
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Samuel Fosso wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023
Samuel Fosso is announced winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023; see his work, and that of all the nominees at The Photographers' Gallery, London
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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Inside Ricardo Bofill’s Walden 7, a cathedral of postmodern curiosity
A new series by architectural photographer Sebastian Weiss takes us on a tour of Walden 7, Ricardo Bofill’s majestic Catelonian apartment building – a cathedral of utopian curiosity and community
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Photo London 2023: the must-see photography shows
With Photo London 2023 about to kick off (11 – 14 May 2023), we throw a lens on the most exciting photography happenings in the city, during the fair and beyond
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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‘Avedon 100’: cultural stars reflect on the photographer’s boundary-shattering legacy
In a new Gagosian exhibition, ‘Avedon 100’, marking the centenary of Richard Avedon’s birth, leading cultural figures – from Naomi Campbell to Spike Lee – share personal stories on the photographer’s remarkable career
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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Felicia Honkasalo on creative obsessions, gothic horror, and the sci-fi world of AI photography
Explore the vision of Helsinki-based artist Felicia Honkasalo in ‘Through the lens’, our monthly series spotlighting photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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Elder Sex: Marilyn Minter’s steamy new photo book spotlights intimacy in older age
Artist Marilyn Minter’s bold, body-positive new photo book, Elder Sex, is an unbridled exploration of sex after the age of 70
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Leica Women Foto Project Award 2023: meet the winners
The Leica Women Foto Project Award 2023 winners give voice to the marginalised through photography
By Simon Mills Published
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Heaven on Earth: architect Toshiko Mori curates Candida Höfer’s sublime new photography show
At Sean Kelly, New York, architect Toshiko Mori is curating a new show by Candida Höfer, spanning a 30-year period of the German photographer’s spatially sublime work
By Pei-Ru Keh Published
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Photographer Alessandro Furchino Capria on cats, consumerism and digital deserts
We explore the vision of Italian photographer Alessandro Furchino Capria in this month’s ‘Through the lens’ feature, where we spotlight photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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Stephen Shore book ‘Topographies’ sees the photographer take his eye to the USA’s skies
Stephen Shore book ‘Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape’ offers a fresh photographic view of the USA’s vast and varied idiosyncrasies
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Ming Smith at MoMA: photographing Black life, from the mundane to the magic
At MoMA, New York, ‘Projects: Ming Smith’ provides a comprehensive reintroduction to Ming Smith’s trailblazing work, 44 years after she became the first Black American photographer to have a work acquired by the museum
By Pei-Ru Keh Published
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Olgaç Bozalp’s journey through forced migration, longing and childhood nostalgia
Photographer Olgaç Bozalp’s powerful series ‘Home, Leaving One For Another’ is now on view at 10 14 Gallery, London
By Saskia Koopman Published
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Pictures from Home: photographer Larry Sultan’s domestic drama arrives on Broadway
Winner of ‘Best Adaptation’ in the 2023 Wallpaper* Design Awards, Pictures from Home at Studio 54 brings the memoir of American photographer Larry Sultan to Broadway, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker
By Sophie Gladstone Published
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Rala Choi: ‘Now is the time to ask photographers about what photography is’
We profile rising star photographer Rala Choi, whose vivid, ethereal images draw on the legacies of art history
By Sophie Gladstone Published