ArchivePhotography
Magnum Contact Sheets go under the microscope
A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique
ArchivePhotography
Books: A heavyweight volume trawls the archives of Magnum Photos to celebrate a once revolutionary, now dying technique
In between the (contact) sheets
ArchiveBooks
A first-rate history of photography, the V&A museum and its pioneering collecting
Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Roger Ballen on his new book Shadow Chamber: Going fishing, metaphorically speaking
The South African photographer talks about his work, techniques and latest book
ArchiveTate
Tate: how we collect photography
Not a study or a technical collection, but works of art for display
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with artist Thomas Joshua Cooper on his new show: At the edge, between lands and sea
Cooper is mapping out a metaphysical space with his images of oceans, forests, rocks and sky
ArchiveThomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff retrospective begins a three-year tour
The German photographer compares his serial working method to “a scientist carrying out a series of experiments”
ArchiveBooks
Perry Ogden, John Edwards, 7 Reece Mews
Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.
ArchiveMuseums
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
ArchiveBooks
Books: The photography of Bill Brandt
This handsome overview spans the celebrated photographer's entire career
ArchiveWomen Artists
Jane Evelyn Atwood's new book 'Too much time: women in prison' reviewed
“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”
ArchiveExhibitions
Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A
How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time
ArchiveExhibitions
Ninetieth-birthday tributes to Cartier-Bresson at the V&A
The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection
ArchiveWar Photography
Photojournalists and the Balkan War
Magnum photographers are among those making the images by which this tragedy will be remembered—but which may also eventually fuel the art market
ArchivePhotography
“Private dreams and unknowable pleasures” in early photography
Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition
ArchiveArtist interview
Martin Parr describes in an interview how he picks up on clichés and consumerism
Multiple common sense courtesy of Xerox
ArchiveBooks
Gilles Mora, Photospeak: a guide to the ideas, movements and techniques of photography, 1839 to the present (Abbeville Press, New York, 1998), 216 pp, 50 b/w ills, 13 col. ills, £20 (hb) ISBN 0789203707, £12.95 (pb) ISBN 0789200686
A Review of Mora's new book on photography
ArchiveExhibitions
Helen Sears’ retrospective at Zelda Cheatle Gallery
Reconstructing the environment