The 24-page book Conventional Photography has all the makings of a collector’s item. The title is a nod to Unconventional Photography, distributed in 1976 by Richard Kalvar and his cronies…
Author Laurence Cornet
A few months ago, Magnum Photos redesigned its website. It now features a blog where its members can reflect on current events and their profession through words and images. The…
The Last Waltz, The Last Show, The Last Roll: all are tributes to the end of an era. For Jeff Jacobson, The Last Roll represented the end of airiness. His…
By collecting images from across the world, all marked with the same tender poetry, Pentti Sammallahti has produced a universal fable wherein animals embody the conditions of human existence. They…
An exhibition at the Gagosian and a book published by MIT Press shows Ed Ruscha’s influence on contemporary artists, photographers and even writers who engaged his work in a stimulating…
This exhibition takes its title from the central room, Room #8, a large-format, panoramic quadriptych spanning more than 10 meters across two adjacent walls. The installation gives this representation of…
Minescape is a distressing work of landscape photography. Visually, the book takes a triangular structure that repeats itself throughout the pages: a landscape, a landmine, a prosthesis. The battlefield landscapes…
In these large-format photographs, the monumentality of the subjects echoes the sculptural aspect of the object. Immoderation, a recurring motif, guides the viewer on an ambiguous journey. A headless tree…
Among the exhibitions commemorating the 10th anniversary of the war in Iraq , Franco Pagetti offers a vision of the country’s recent history that unfolds over the course of several…
This exhibition was put together by Christiane Paul, a visual arts professor at the Parsons New School in New York and an associate curator for New Media Arts at the…