Photography

An excerpt from the forthcoming treatise on photography by Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson: Snappy Snaps: Irrigating the Re-Un-De-Framed Conceptual Contextual Medium Mediation of the Imaged Photographic Picture (Editions Obu-Stevenson, Schipol Airport, 2012)

A new book on the writing of Diane Arbus prompts a deeper understanding of her photographs

Narcissism is back in fashion

Does digital media spell the end for portrait photographers in Africa?

From the failures of Roland Barthes to the joys of sustained looking, four new publications on photography

Recently, several US-based artists have taken a approach to photography, emphasizing process, digital manipulation and the physical support

Elad Lassry makes sculptures that, in his words, ‘happen to be photographs’

The intertwining of art and commercial photography is nowhere more evident than in the genre of still life

Artist Anthony Pearson talks to Barbara Kasten about theatricality, her photographic approach and ‘thinking like a painter’

The legacy of the late Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri

Yto Barrada juggles her work as an artist with running a cinémathèque in Tangier. She talked to Jennifer Higgie about her reasons for opening a cinema, the ‘strategies of resistance’ she encounters in Morocco today, and her interest in botany

The photography and videos of Olga Chernysheva capture concentrated moments in the midst of daily Russian life

Paradise Row

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

The little-known photographs of a pioneering photography collector; an artist’s project

An art-historical exhibition features photographers including Walker Evans, Jeff Wall, Sharon Lockhart and Bruce Gilden

The Spanish photographer’s first exhibition in Scandinavia is one of two exhibitions currently on view at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard in the centre of Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District

Anne Collier’s photographs of images and objects focus on the stylized vehicles of expectation and desire

Politics, poetry and the legacy of black and white photography come together in Shannon Ebner’s explorations of language and sign systems

The death and resurrection of photography in a digitized world