On 6 August 1945, the US government dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This was the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon, and along with the bombing of Nagasaki…
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William Carter, born in 1934 in Los Angeles, is a photographer, writer and part-time jazz musician. He has exhibited and published widely, and his work is held in public and…
Ernst Haas was born in Vienna in 1921, and took up photography after the war. His early Austrian work on returning prisoners of war brought him to the attention of…
Stephen Waddell was born in 1968 at Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents were involved with the arts and he took courses at Simon Fraser University with Jeff Wall. He began…
Fouad Elkoury was born in 1952 in Paris, and today lives between Paris and Beirut. After studying architecture in London in 1979, Elkoury turned to photography and depicted Beirut during…
The weekly review of photos in the U.S. media is back after a New York summer that included earthquakes and hurricanes. For this edition, we look at a number of…
Gigi Giannuzzi is wonderfully grim. He has a darkness of spirit that glows from within. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Trolley Books, the photography book publishing house…
Vroom, vroom, vroom… a motorbike starts in the Parisian night. Wearing his helmet and aviator’s outfit, Denis Canguilhem (just about 40) is leaving a restaurant in the center of town.…
Peripatetic artist Jim Dow has compiled many of his best-known images in this generous love poem to America. On the road, using a large format camera, Dow has catalogued the…