Photography

Snapshot: ‘Heavenly Fire #9’ (2018) by Maria Lax

A flash of neon in the middle of the Finnish wilderness evokes fear and supernatural phenomena

Friday, 14 February, 2020

Photographic odyssey of love and loss for Iran

The artist explores the history of her homeland through pictures and poetry

Friday, 14 February, 2020

Up close and personal: the other side of Dorothea Lange

The American photographer is best known for her Depression-era pictures but the archives of her life’s work reveal a very different artist

Friday, 7 February, 2020

Snapshot: ‘Carlos Pérez Siquier’ at Fundación Mapfre

Texture — whether skin or stucco — is at the heart of this new retrospective covering half a century of prints

Monday, 3 February, 2020

Interview

Michael Shapiro: photo dealer who watched a market develop

Iconic images are among the photographs in a London exhibition mounted by the collector

Friday, 31 January, 2020

Snapshot: ‘Nicolas & Adrien: A World with Two Sons’

A collection of 159 intimate prints of the photographer’s sons capturing the spontaneity of their adolescence

Friday, 31 January, 2020

A new exhibition explores masculinity, from the tough to the tender

The Barbican’s Masculinities show offers a journey through the complexity of modern maleness

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Friday, 24 January, 2020

Snapshot: ‘Wright Morris — The Home Place’

A photographic novel exposing a rural Nebraska seemingly frozen in time following the Great Depression

Friday, 24 January, 2020

What one photographer learnt from Italy’s traumatised young migrants

As Daniel Castro Garcia’s portraits show, the perilous Mediterranean crossing is one stage of a long journey

Friday, 17 January, 2020

Snapshot: ‘Harry Gruyaert’ at Howard Greenberg Gallery

The images show street scene subjects rooted in their surroundings, inebriated by saturated colour and indifferent to the camera

Friday, 17 January, 2020

Don McCullin on photographing war — and collecting antiques

‘We all need distractions,’ says the man who has captured conflicts from Vietnam to Syria

Friday, 10 January, 2020

Snapshot: ‘The Legacy of Issei Suda (1940-2019)’

The photographs are a striking assembly of strangers and urban geometry intended to reflect the changing face of the Japanese landscape

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Snapshot: Eliot Porter’s Birds, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art

His images are remarkable for their rich colours and detail, achieved through a complex printing process

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Sameer Raichur captures the elation of Kannada moviegoing in India

The release of a so-called Sandalwood film is the cue for performative celebrations

Friday, 3 January, 2020

From arcades to political avatars: the evolution of video games since the 1980s

Artists have long been drawn to gaming and its ability to unite and divide us

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Amalia Ulman: why I staged my own Instagram meltdown

What a fictionalised online performance revealed about the way we view women online

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Jeff Mermelstein’s photos of other people’s text messages

From the mundane to the absurd, texts illuminate the range of the human condition

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Christopher Nunn: when TVs became a weapon of war in Ukraine

When Russian troops seized Crimea in 2014, the television sets in people’s homes became a crucial propaganda tool

Friday, 3 January, 2020

How we all became screen obsessives

Phones, TV and games constantly vie for our attention — but how much do they add to our lives?

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Paul Graham’s photographs reveal people transfixed by television

These pictures show how, before the smartphone, we were already in thrall to the small screen

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Eve Arnold’s haunting photographs of Marilyn Monroe and ‘The Misfits’

Portraits taken on the set of the classic film capture the emotional fragility of its troubled stars

Friday, 3 January, 2020