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“What if Latin America was nothing more than a European invention?” asks Olivier Compagnon in the introductory text to América Latina 1960-2013 (Thames & Hudson). Perhaps then it would be a matter…

The shutter clicks recording time as it passes before our eyes and through our lives in the form of the photograph, creating keepsakes from our book of life, creating mementos…

In the 1920s, August Sander conceived of The People of the 20th Century, a seven-volume series that would encapsulate the face of the times, and to this project he dedicated the better…

A portrait of an artist is always their subject. We may know the photographer from the photograph in the way they see the world and the artifacts that they make,…

George Orwell foresaw in 1949 a world where government surveillance was fully integrated into modern life, and warned us of what happens when the object of power is power. “Power…

“Keeping a secret was never really my thing,” Adèle Jancovici writes in the beginning of Maripola X, the first edition from Le Livre Art Publishing. As publisher, Jancovici collaborates with artists…

It is estimated that ancient inhabitants first migrated from Africa by way of Southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea (PNG) between 50,000-70,000 years. Around 7000 BC, agriculture developed in the…

What you cannot see is always there when you look, and it is by our inner compass that we are drawn to an understanding of the world. For Nick Hand,…