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This photo novel, developed from previously unseen archives, reads like a comic book. Anouck Durand astutely intertwines personal and historical narratives, the friendship between communist China and Albania in the…

Disco Night Sept 11 is a magnificent hybrid work. Part war story and part family album, it shares with the latter the fabric cover, relatively small photographs, unfolding pages, captions, and…

To coincide with Marie-Paule Nègre retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the publishing house Terrebleue has released a boxed set of eleven booklets on ten basic themes in the…

In November 2008, the United States elected Barack Obama to the White House. A few days beforehand, the photographer Eunique Jones Gibson had just given birth to her first son. His younger…

As the World Cup approaches in Brazil, Damiani has published Olympic Favela by German photographer Marc Ohrem-Leclef. This series of photographs documents the citizens of disadvantaged communities  of Rio de Janeiro—the “favelas”—whose lives…

Putting together a weekly press review gives me a mordant view of current events. I defend the total subjectivity of my choices, which incidentally are for people of both the…

This week on the Web: Agence France-Presse on Instagram, Larry’s Clark’s youths skate and surf under the sun, David Lekach and Anthony Acosta, the sensual fashion photography of Arnaud Lajeunie,…

Roger Ballen’s newest monograph, Asylum of the Birds (Thames & Hudson) is a revelation, a vision of the inside of the mind in black and white—and all shades in between. There is…

2014 marks the 45th anniversary of Woodstock. Baron Wolman was Rolling Stone magazine’s first photographer. In 1969 he attended what would become the most famous music festival of all time.…