A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique

In between the (contact) sheets

Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department

The South African photographer talks about his work, techniques and latest book

Not a study or a technical collection, but works of art for display

Cooper is mapping out a metaphysical space with his images of oceans, forests, rocks and sky

The German photographer compares his serial working method to “a scientist carrying out a series of experiments”

Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.

This handsome overview spans the celebrated photographer's entire career

“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”

How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time

The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection

Magnum photographers are among those making the images by which this tragedy will be remembered—but which may also eventually fuel the art market

Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition

Multiple common sense courtesy of Xerox

A Review of Mora's new book on photography

Reconstructing the environment

The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it