Opinion
Word play
Sarah Boris’s letterpress collaboration with New North Press reflects the turbulence of 2020.
Los Angeles’ lost palace of treasures
Design history, Critique / Photography
Using photographic evidence, designer Mark Nelson has reconstructed one of the great twentieth-century…
Editorial Eye 101
Heroes of wealth and power
Magazines, Visual culture, Critique / Photography
An essay published in Mack’s new ‘Discourse’ series accuses three prominent photographers of creating…
Godard becomes ‘Godard’
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
In 1961, the new wave director posed for a German fashion photographer. The publicity pictures that…
Palaces of petroleum
Design history, Critique / Photography
The adventurous design of a 1960 book promoting Australia’s fossil fuel industry offers a poignant…
The haunted shore
Images of spectral sea-bathers haunt the light-filled pages of Nigel Grierson’s self-published…
Netherworld of crime
A new book expands upon an impressionistic photo-essay about crime by Gordon Parks, including images not…
Introduction Eye 100
Recolouring the past
At a time when image falsification is a source of concern, the digital colourisation of documentary…