Opinion
Four-wheeled dreams
A new V&A book of photographs of cars fails to acknowledge the bigger picture. Photo Critique by Rick…
Editorial Eye 99
Traces of longing
For Belgian collagist Katrien De Blauwer, making work is both an obsession and an act of therapy. By Rick…
Defiance and revelation
A new book of Peter Kennard’s work adds context and background detail to his angry, radical…
Banquet of images
For its 50th anniversary, the Arles festival stages a
generous array of contemporary and historical…
Nature in captivity
Luigi Ghirri’s rigorously composed pictures of plants outside people’s homes exercise a banal…
A confederacy of lunches
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
A text-only book argues that ‘social’ photography is more about self-documentation than aesthetics. By…
Editorial Eye 98
Posters for the people
Photographs by the Polish designer Wojciech Zamecznik investigate the use of posters as public…
Catalogue of things
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
A close relative’s colour slides show a densely layered record of everyday life. Photo Critique by Rick…