Twelve by twelve inches. A cardboard slipcase for a twelve-inch album. Vinyl. The way it all began. When turntables were the way music was orchestrated in the era of mass reproduction. And so it was, and it had been, that the photograph was part of that experience, the sleeve being the pe...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

August 28, 1963, marked a great day for democracy in America. On that day nearly fifty years ago, more than 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to mount a peaceful protest demanding equal rights and economic equality for African Americans. Led by a co...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

White Pride provides the viewer with unprecedented access into two of America's most notorious extremist communities, the Ku Klux Klan and disparate groups of white nationalists. Anthony Karen's camera captures not only rare video of a Ku Klux Klan cross light...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

A French gallery. Not because only French photographers have been exhibited over the past 38 years at 3 rue du Pont Louis Philippe in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. In fact it’s quite the opposite: the first photographs hanging on the gallery’s walls—on June 10 th, 1975, at 18...

16.05.2013[ read full story ]

The body as landscape, object, sculpture, and form, as costume, architecture, or anything else you could imagine it to become in all of its glory. It is both positive and negative, being and nothingness. It is present and absent, past and future, paradoxes intertwined and connected as one...

03.05.2013[ read full story ]

Some viewers might have seen photographs by Igor Moukhin in 2010 as part of the exhibition Photographie de la nouvelle Russie 1990-2010 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, presented as part of a year devoted to covering Franco-Russian history. The festival RussenKo 2013, organ...

06.05.2013[ read full story ]

This publication entitled un récit photographique (A photographic tale) is the only account of one of cinema’s lost films maudits (cursed films). These missing episodes from the history of cinema are often well documented, despite never being completed, at least for the mo...

18.04.2013[ read full story ]

The title of the new book of René Burri, Impossibles Réminiscences, apparently refers to a short story by H.G. Wells, “The Door in the Wall,” to a green door, warmth and light mentioned in the story’s first paragraph. For Hans-Michael Koetzle, author ...

18.04.2013[ read full story ]

Published by the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo, the book As origens do fotojornalismo no Brasil: um olhar sobre O Cruzeiro (1940-1960) (The Origins of Photojournalism in Brazil: A Look at O Cruzeiro, 1940-1960) explores the same themes of the eponymous exhibitio...

18.04.2013[ read full story ]

Photographer Rafael Trobat has devoted most of his work to showing the social reality of Nicaragua. This book brings together 61 of his photographs, mostly taken from an ongoing project begun in 1990 and shot in Spain, Honduras and El Salvador. Also featured in the book a...

18.04.2013[ read full story ]