Photography

Photo by Jason Orton|Gallery

London 2012

Photo of London's Olympic Park site, one in a recent series

Rick Poynor|Essays

J.G. Ballard’s Terminal Documents

A speculative visual interpretation of one of the surreal image lists in J.G. Ballard’s experimental novel The Atrocity Exhibition.

Daniella Zalcman|Slideshows

South Sudan: Birth of a Republic

Daniella Zalcman's photos of The Republic of South Sudan on independence day.

John Foster|Projects

DART St. Louis

On DART St. Louis, a charitable photo project that brings overlooked neighborhoods to life.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On the Threshold of Sebald’s Room

Daniel Blaufuks is haunted by a picture of an office in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Where did it come from and what does it show?

Rick Poynor|Essays

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

A DVD cover for the classic film noir Kiss Me Deadly uses the blindingly obvious symbol that just keeps on giving.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: Stefan Lorant’s Lilliput

Stefan Lorant’s use of photos in pairs could be wry, funny, bizarre, whimsical, satirical and not always kind.

Adam Harrison Levy|Slideshows

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

Close to a decade ago, a man caught sight of a battered suitcase: inside it, he found photographs of a bombed out Hiroshima. A unique slideshow of 100 photographs.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Wim Wenders’ Strange and Quiet Places

The massive photographs in film director Wim Wenders’ new exhibition work best when they serve his painterly eye.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Secret History of the Edgelands

These transitional zones, places of “possibility, mystery and beauty,” can be found anywhere that urban development meets open land.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Cities from the Sky

A new exhibition of urban photographs by Sze Tsung Leong.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Solitude in Dark Trees

Was this structure the idle amusement of some loggers, or an art piece by someone at the academy nearby? Gingerly testing each rung, I climbed up into it.