Tom Wood's vibrant photographs of shoppers at a market in Liverpool from 1978 onwards.
When you’re around ten years old, summer evenings, with their made-up games, flash thunderstorms, and aimless wanderings, have a magic and a mystery that…
Photographers Isabella Lanave and Alessandra Sanguinetti share their work in our annual photo issue.
Cuban artist Ana Mendieta died mysteriously in 1985. Here are some of the dark, ritualistic images she left behind
Artist Jose Romussi found a new application for string art and embroidery–applying them to vintage photographs of dancers. The results are stunning. Jose Romussi is a Chilean artist currently…
Image courtesy of Nan Goldin Nan Goldin. The Ballad of sexual dependency La Triennale di Milano From September 19, 2017 to November 26, 2017 An autobiographical and universal diary made of images, about human beings’ weakness, that tells about life, sex, transgression, drugs, friendship, loneliness. A work in progress…
These superb photographs taken by the Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) elevate the everyday into fine art. Missone’s artistry, his eye for composition, light and mood, encourage us to share his thoughts and emotions. Form takes over from subject matter and content. They are extraordinary pictorial photographs, as poetic as Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime Polaroids. … Continue reading "Extraordinary Photographs by Léonard Misonne"
Lili Owen Rowlands on the French artist Sophie Calle’s photography, video, and performance projects that are, at once, intimate and removed, including her book “The Hotel,” an English translation of which has been reissued by Siglo.
Diane Arbus was a wonderful photographer known for her informal portraits - mostly of misfits, from the late-1940s onwards. These are the highest resolution Arbus scans that I could find online but I can't trace the original scanners. :(
For years, the well-known photographer shot teenage girls in bucolic landscapes. When she found the photos again decades later, they had taken on a new valence.
Photography: Decisive Moment - Henri Cartier Bresson Henri Cartier Bresson’s interest in photography began as a young boy. He was...
If you feel like a photo you just snapped somewhat resembles a classical painting, it may be that you have just encountered "accidental Renaissance".
Gaze at one hundred years of people knitting.
I always said I would be the one to break the cycle. That’s exactly what I’m doing right now, and I need to take it easy on myself. This is hard fucking work. Grueling fucking work. This is the wo...
There seems to be some special magic to Kawauchi Rinko’s photographs. She finds eternity in the everyday, and the world of her photographs, interweaving the life in death and the death in life, goes beyond “being Japanese,” opening up new horizons in her art.
The photographer Gjon Mili was hailed for his work illustrating entire sequences of human movement in a single image.
As a young man, Brassai studied painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He joined a cavalry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army, where he served until the end of the
Vanessa Beecroft has had a spectacular and illustrious career as an artist...
Learn about the work and career of artist Jeff Wall. Artworks, biography, exhibitions, editorial content, news, museum exhibitions, press, and more.
Charlotte Bracegirdle, New York 1932 (2010)
Sophie Calle is a master in the art of surprising and of telling intimate stories. Discover Sophie Calle’s artistic journey in 10 anecdotes!
Imogen Cunningham: Nun at Sacred Heart, Oakwood, 1976
Yousuf Karsh, CC (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.Muhammed AliBri…
Tree Day was an annual celebration of nature and drama.
Magnum president Martin Parr is set to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award at this year's Sony World Photo awards
A new exhibition revisits her photos of Rei Kawakubo’s clothing.
Explore Chickeyonthego's 4864 photos on Flickr!
THESE incredible photographs show what life was like over 100 years ago, featuring people from around the world snapped in stunning colour. Taken during the 1890s, these shots were given an injecti…
1. Incredibly Detailed Illustrations of our favourite small Parisian museums & archives By artist Christelle Tea wonderful account to follow. 2. These Amazing Quilts Artist Jeffrey Sincich makes quilts inspired by signage, shop fronts, ephemera. Found via Present & Correct. 3. Traditional 18th Century Welsh Women’s Fashion Found on Pinterest. 4. This gilded astronomical tool…
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 – 17th March 2013 Jeff Wall (Canadian, b. 1946) A view from an apartment 2004-2005 Transparency in light box 1/2 167.0 x 244.0cm Tate, Londo…
For Dare alla Luce, photographer Amy Friend collects faded memories in the form of vintage and antique photographs, which she penetrates to reveal small spots of light. Re-photographing the altered print, she captures eerily doubled images that appear ghostly and divine, as if dotted with stars. The figures immortalized here are strangers to Friend, and by piecing the surface of the two dimensional print, she allows portions of mysterious recollections to irrevocably vanish.
Le MoMA de New York présente The Ballad of Sexual Dependency de l’artiste Nan Goldin dans une version de 2005 retravaillée et enrichie (la première version date de 1985). Cette installation très célèbre montre plus de 700 diapositives sous la forme d’un diaporama accompagné d’extraits musicaux.The MoMA in New York presents a revised and expanded version of Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency dated 2005 (the original version was created in 1985). This well-known installation is a slide show of over 700 images accompanied by a soundtrack. The curator felt it necessary to additionally display a selection of Nan Goldin’s photographs from the museum’s collection.
Prima di Photoshop, c’era Jean-Paul Goude: illustratore, grafico, regista e non solo. Direttore artistico tra i più noti, grazie a immagini disorientanti e dirompenti come la cover di Island Life, famosissimo album di Grace Jones del 1985. Per conoscerne la genesi basta visitare So Far So Goude, antologica personale in corso al PAC di Milano… Continue reading So Far So Goude
