Photography

The Japanese artist discusses photography and the viewer as an intermediary

On the occasion of a major touring retrospective that marks four decades of the artist’s work, Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the photographs of Robert Adams

Roe Ethridge’s work circulates in the worlds of fashion, commercial and art photography. Christy Lange considers his ‘chaotic inventory’.

Conflicts in high-definition

Melancholy and entropy haunt the French artist’s films and photographs

Bertolt Brecht and the media today

Fabio Mauri's Ideology and Nature was re-performed at Venice this year. Here, Barbara Casavecchia examines the artist's enquiry of art and ideology

Family, literary influence, travel and environment in the work of Moyra Davey

From Roni Horn to Marina Abramović, Christina Zück examines the ‘enraptured faces’ of portrait photography today

Tropical Modernism and the ‘potential of nostalgia’; photographs, prints and new layers of memory

Marie Darrieussecq responds to the filmic meditations of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva

What two photographs taken by a Spanish judge in Baghdad reveal about the impossibility of untangling a moment in the past

‘Pacific Standard Time’ is an collaboration that traces different histories of Southern Californian art from 1945 to 1980

Photography and the restless still life

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