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It has been two decades since the colossal success of the pop band The Verve’s era-defining Urban Hymns, and it remains one of the […]…

In 1950, Elliott Erwitt traveled to Pittsburgh, then known as the Steel City. At the invitation of Roy Striker, director of the photographic program of the Farm Security Administration, he…

Olivier Beytout is particularly fond of the word “Cyclops.” “I think every photographer,” he explained, “is a Cyclops, since, if you’re using traditional cameras, […]…

Bord de Mer (Seaside), published by Contrasto, is a series of photographs taken by Gabriele Basilico in Brittany and Normandy, between 1984 and 1985, for the Delegation for Planning and…

Nikolai Vavilov had anticipated the loss of biodiversity of plant life and, over decades of research and travels around the world, found a way of preserving it. For political and…

Featuring photographs, magazine spreads, newspaper features, letters, memos and more, this landmark publication published by Actes Sud celebrating the 70th anniversary of the renowned Magnum Agency explores the world as…

First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its…

The Magnum Agency, created in Paris and New York in 1947, is celebrating its seventieth anniversary this year. Clara Bouveresse’s book, Histoire de l’agence Magnum: L’Art d’être photographe, published by…

Almost 20 years after the release of his first monograph, We’re Desperate, produced with the help of Sonic Youth front man Thurston Moore and fashion designer Marc Jacobs and regarded…