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Through February 15, the Howard Greenberg gallery is revisiting the origins of the commercial exhibition of photography. In 1959, on tenth street in New York, the photographer Larry Siegel opened…
It was a very busy week with South Sudan, the Central African Republic, North Korea, the cold and animals, but especially for the affaire française. The president sleeps around. Who…
A monochromatic exhibition of Boris Mikhailov’s photographs is currently on view at the Dominique Lévy gallery in New York. On the first floor is the blue series At Dusk, featuring 110 panoramic…
You’ll have to forgive this slight digression. This week’s Zineland focuses on a photo book with a more conventional format. But Mark Cohen’s Dark Knees is a digression in itself. The photographer…
For photographer Douglas Kirkland and his wife and business partner Francoise, there are no boundaries between life, love, work, and art. Their home reflects this blurring of the lines itself. The Kirklands…
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. His best-known titles include Junky (1953), The Soft Machine (1961) and his ground-breaking Naked Lunch (1959), which was adapted into a…
Timequakes was born from my experience of the earthquake that occurred in Japan in March 2011. As an outlet for what I experienced at that time, I transposed the chaos…
Rogério Assis, the first photographer to come into contact with the indigenous Zo’é people in 1989, returned to the same territory twenty years later. During his first visit, Assis met…
With their new weekly magazine dedicated to smartphone photography, FLTR, the British Journal of Photography has placed a bet on modernity. Designed exclusively for the iPhone, the magazine’s designer and…