“The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.” These are the words of Edward Weston, the great photographer whose work is the subject...

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A few years ago at American Photo, I received a portfolio from Celia A. Shapiro containing twelve photographs of meal trays. The text that accompanied the images explained that they were exact reproductions of the last meals requested by serial killers before their execution. Shapiro has ...

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Today, the Cinecittà film studios in Italy may be forced to close... Strolling through the studios and sets, remnants of cinematic history, two Italian photographers pay tribute to this holy place of the world’s cultural heritage. Gianluca Gamberini and Emanuele Scorcellett...

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Is this a new utopia? Some distant reality? Neither one. The idea of a hermitage might seem paradoxical in our society, which champions the individual, but it is a growing and fascinating phenomenon. Modern hermitages have nothing to do with social or personal ambition. Most of th...

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In spite of depicting interiors and exteriors or including fragments from a nature debilitated by human actions, in spite of reproducing distant and distinct locations in Europe’s political and cultural geography, in spite of revealing bodies that are different from each other (though all of...

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Da-End Gallery is showing ‘Nippon-ismes an exhibition which brings together eight photographers from different generations whose works, from either a journalistic or visual approach to the medium, all question contemporary Japanese identity and culture. The theme of the Ja...

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The rocky coast of Maine is where Briechle found himself driven to make pictures, using the wet-plate collodion process, of the individuals who constitute his stand-in family. “I've been in Maine close to eight years now and there are some people I've photographed for the entire time. A f...

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Initiated by Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg and Susan Meiselas in 2011, Postcards from America evolved from the desire amongst a group of Magnum’s photographers to refocus creatively, by producing an independent project based on shared experience.

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The idea behind this series was to challenge myself. Photographing a celebrity isn’t always easy, but they are usually people with a strong presence. I wanted to test myself from all angles, creating a relationship with the subject, and come out with a decent picture. I also wanted to ha...

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Developed in collaboration with Le Bal (Paris) and Ivorypress (Madrid), which presented the exhibition earlier in 2012, The Latin American Photobook takes viewers through the history of publishing in Latin America. Through a selection of works covering nearly a century of publi...

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Pieter Hugo’s There’s a place in hell for me & my friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa home. Through a digital process of converting colour images to black and white while m...

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It’s not uncommon to find oneself strangely fascinated by the marks and blisters left by sunburns. The photographs of the American Chris McCaw are like these small wounds we compulsively touch and puncture. In his latest series, McCaw, a disciple of ancient for...

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