Photography
Robert Frank’s doom-laden images of America
The photographer’s first and most famous book quickly became a classic, but he would become sceptical about the power of still images
The photographer who turned women into goddesses
George Hoyningen-Huene took cues from classical statuary to make his subjects into untouchable ice queens
Turin’s new photo festival takes a wide-angled view of the world
An ambitious new event features several photographers seeing colonial histories through a contemporary lens
The photographs worth a thousand words, even if those words are by Annie Ernaux
Juxtaposing the Nobel Prize-winner’s writing with images of daily life shows that images can be read as well as looked at
Anna Atkins, queen of cyan
It was the pioneering photogapher’s dedication to botany that made her determined to record her samples in such memorable fashion
How Carrie Mae Weems keeps making her presence felt
Whether transforming existing images or taking photographs of her own, the socially engaged artist has never stopped experimenting
The grand ambitions of Venice’s new centre for photography
Located on the tiny island of San Giorgio, Le Stanze della Fotografia hopes to become a landmark in Italy
When did fashion photography stop being fun?
A trip through the Condé Nast archives now owned by François Pinault suggests that wit is no longer in vogue
Do photography collections in the UK need more focus?
Diane Smyth considers the state of private and public photography collections in the UK
The Frenchman who wanted to photograph the world
In the early 20th century, Albert Kahn dispatched photographers to more than 50 countries – and the magical results can be found in the Paris museum that bears his name
The changing face of war photography
The nature of modern conflicts and the demands of today’s media has led to a shift in the images produced by photojournalists
Street wise – how Helen Levitt turned a cool eye on life in New York
The photographer recorded life in New York for 70 years without receiving the same acclaim as her male contemporaries, but that seems to be changing
Up in the air – the photographs that defy the laws of gravity
What goes up inevitably must come down – but for a fleeting moment some photographers have tried to suggest otherwise
Does the past look better in black and white?
Photographers and film-makers have long added colour to their images – but does the current craze for colourisation create a false impression of olden times?
An elegy for sweaty nights of drum & bass
With nightclubs in crisis, photographs of clubbers leave Peter Scott feeling nostalgic for the ’90s rave scene
From baptisms to boat burnings, life along the Thames is full of surprises
With an eye for ritual, the photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews celebrates an unfamiliar vision of the river
Spirit of the place – an interview with Farah Al Qasimi
Conveying the views of a disgruntled jinn is just one of the artist’s absurdist approaches to understanding the modern world
‘I found a Dorothea Lange who was new to me’ – an interview with Sam Contis
The artist Sam Contis talks about mining a rich seam in the personal archive of Dorothea Lange, and the parallels between Lange’s work and her own photography
‘The full measure of the great artist so many suspected had always been there was becoming visible’
Joshua Chuang remembers working with Santu Mofokeng on a series of books presenting the South African photographer’s life’s work
In a Morris Minor key – Michael Collins presents the lost world of family slides
The photographer talks to Apollo about three decades of collecting other people’s family slides
Spain’s annual photography festival, in focus
From Franco-era crimes to the Anthropocene, images at PhotoEspaña 2019 tackle some powerful subjects
Moon landings and Martin Parr’s Britain – the year ahead in photography
Exhibitions of lunar photography and a major Martin Parr retrospective are among the highlights to watch out for in 2019
Remembering Ara Güler, the eye of Istanbul
The much-loved Armenian-Turkish photographer spent decades recording a disappearing city
A welcome reappraisal of Peter Hujar
An exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum makes clear the radical vision of Peter Hujar’s intimate photographs
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?