Photography

Capturing the ‘spectacularly unspectacular’ reality of abortions and reproductive health facilities

Carmen Winant’s new installation at the Minneapolis Institute of Art conveys how unremarkable spaces and procedures that have become intensely politicised are

Dallas Center for Photography to close permanently

The organisation was the only non-profit in north Texas devoted to photography

Detroit-area photography dealer pleads guilty to $1.5m art fraud scheme

Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year after an FBI investigation

The Photography Show fair will relocate to New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2024

The long-running photography fair was last held at the Upper East Side institution until 2016, when it decamped to Midtown

Rencontres d’Arles: can the storied photography festival recognise the issues that beset its homeland?

The annual event opens in Arles as France contends with the killing of Nahel Merzouk and the violent protests that swept the country

Guild Hall, one of the Hamptons's leading art institutions, is transformed after $29m renovation

Shuttered for two years, the East Hampton institution has reopened with a major Renée Cox solo show

Booksreview

New book details how Alfredo Boulton’s photography helped define an artistic history of Venezuela

The photographer and historian documented the country’s art back to the pre-Hispanic period

Baltimore Museum of Art acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier installation honouring community healthcare workers

The installation spotlights health workers that helped underserved communities in Baltimore at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

Faces of refugees and locals to be pasted on Geneva building as part of JR photography project

As number of displaced people reaches record high, French artist's Inside Out initiative aims to bring Geneva community together

‘We were both shocked that the photo was ever taken’: the collectors who assembled a trove of early vernacular photos of men in love

Texas-based collectors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell have amassed a collection of more than 4,000 early photos, some of which are now on view at a Swiss museum

Photographyanalysis

At last, photography starts to make inroads into Art Basel

Collectors show greater interest in photographers but larger galleries still favour mid-career and older artists

Cindy Shermaninterview

Cindy Sherman on AI experiments, lockdown pottery and being a woman in today's art market

Artist has created new body of work for solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich

Modern artinterview

Interview magazine editor and Warhol confidant Bob Colacello opens new show on Pop art heyday

The photographer speaks with us about his intimate images of the famed artist, how he got the coveted New York media job and his "diehard" Republicanism

Gagosian to represent the photographer Francesca Woodman

Previously unseen photographs will be on show at Art Basel, while a new book will be published by her foundation in June

Carrie Mae Weems: the photographer recreating and reframing famous historical moments

Ahead of her largest European show to date, the artist tells us why her early work focused on her family and how she grew to embrace large-scale installation

London Gallery Weekend: best shows for photography fans

The photographer who revolutionised billboard advertising, a fly on Andy Warhol's wall and a sickly look at seaside memories

San Diego's museums of art and photography will merge

The Balboa Park cultural mainstays will form one institution, effective 1 July

Photographyanalysis

Photographer's haunting images of the traces of Nazi extermination resonate with today's Bloodlands of Ukraine

Judy Glickman Lauder's photographs taken around 1990 take on new meaning with the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Photo Londonanalysis

Photo London's director promises to 'embrace the new'—so why does it look the same?

Now under the directorship of Kamiar Maleki, the UK's largest photography fair returns to Somerset House for its eighth edition

Photographs from Madonna’s Sex book go to auction for the first time

Proceeds from prints that were first published in the bestselling coffee table book will go toward the singer’s Malawi non-profit

Book Clubfeature

Anna Atkins and the algae: how the first photobook was made in the mid-1800s

In an extract from an essay accompanying a newly published facsimile, Peter Walther tells the story of how this remarkable publication came about

Booksreview

Stephen Shore's drone with a view delivers a different side of America

A book of the US photographer's aerial images, created during the Covid-19 pandemic, offers an original take on the US’s lived reality

'The outsider': a film about the forgotten photographer Tish Murtha to open Sheffield DocFest

Murtha died suddenly in 2013, having never received recognition for her photography. But today, she is recognised as one of the most significant artists of her generation

Getty Images rejects venture capital firm's $4bn takeover bid

Getty Images has rejected a takeover attempt by the Boston-based venture investment company Trillium Capital, citing issues with the feasibility and transparency of the bid

Cleaner's cupboard becomes a walk-in camera obscura: hidden backrooms of London's V&A transformed into new photography centre

Seven dedicated galleries will now exhibit the full range and depth of the museum world’s oldest photography collection

AI artcomment

'AI photography is here to stay—here's why we should be worried'

Maybe we should direct our attention less on whether these images count as photographs, and more on the moral right or wrong of how they work

The camera never lies? Creator of AI image rejects prestigious photo award

Boris Eldagsen has accused the Sony World Photograph Awards of failing to distinguish between a photograph and a DALL-E 2-created image, while the organisers condemn a ‘deliberate attempt at misleading us’

Kwame Brathwaite, photographer who encapsulated ‘Black is beautiful’ movement, has died, aged 85

The New York photographer pioneered lighting and developing techniques that helped transformed how Black figures were photographed and seen

Artist Colette Veasey-Cullors will be the next dean of New York’s International Center of Photography school

Veasey-Cullors, who currently serves as an interim vice provost at the Maryland Institute College of Art, takes the helm of the Manhattan-based photography school in June