Peter Lindbergh’s new project, The Unknown, represents another chapter in the field of fashion photography. Lindbergh’s images are displayed within an framework and from a novel perspective for fashion photography: The Unknown is a photographic “seri...

31.05.2011[ read full story ]

Hopelessly dry soil, sad men and animals, pointless and endless waiting: this is Sertao, northern Brazil, a forgotten region lost in this economically and socially burgeoning nation. These incredible black and white pictures taken by Tiago Santana, also born in ...

25.05.2011[ read full story ]

In the far south-west of Bangladesh, the remarkable and gripping photographs of Munem Wasif show the consequences of the global warming and of the intensive culture of prawns on his country’s ecosystem. The salinity raised and traditional agriculture is not a possibili...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

In the late 1980s the Historic Houses Trust rescued four tonnes of forensic crime negatives from a flooded warehouse in Lidcombe and relocated them to Sydney’s Justice & Police Museum. Fifteen years on, the Historic Houses Trust has reproduced to stunning effect a selection of mor...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

Bloom Japan… Cherry blossoms will flower once more.
Independant publishers be-poles, in collaboration with the photographer Frédéric Lebain, brings a special edition of « Portraits de villes » donating all sale profits to the Japanese Red Cross Society “Help Japan” opera...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

American artist Roe Ethridge‘s latest book takes its title from the French C’est pas du luxe, an ironic phrase which alludes to the superfluous nature of luxury whilst proclaiming how essential it is to existence. Such paradoxes are fluently woven through ...

23.06.2011[ read full story ]

Artists, men of letters, actors, and dancers met in his portrait studio in Paris. Photographer, painter, and object artist Man Ray (1890!1976) knew them all, the brilliant figures of the scene. During his active time as a portrait photographer thousands of peo...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

Candlestick Point was first published in 1989 and has been unavailable for decades, other than as an expensive collectible on the secondary photobook market. The New York curator Marvin Heiferman characterized Lewis Baltz’s landscape photography as a “topog...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

“When I first saw the beach at Lynemouth in January 1976, I recognized the industry above it but nothing else I was seeing. The beach beneath me was full of activity with horses and carts backed into the sea. Men were standing in the sea next to the carts, using small wire nets attached to p...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

Maripol is a force of energy. Warm like a fire and flickering like a flame, she is one and the same as those who wore her designs in the earliest years. Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, Madonna, the list goes on and on. Her aesthetic influenced the generation that watched “Bur...

20.05.2011[ read full story ]