Opinion: Visual culture
Colour field
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
By choosing colour over black-and-white, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered a new type of American street…
Graphic language of the wall
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti with handwritten typographic treatments made striking, almost punkish…
Elton John’s new vision
‘The Radical Eye’, the superstar’s opulently framed collection of modernist photography, is a…
Browsing, or reading?
A new shop demonstrates the global resurgence of indie magazines. Critique by Rick Poynor
Depth and ambiguity
Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the photographic…
Cold War culture-jammer
Design history, Visual culture
Hispanic photomonteur Josep Renau aimed Technicolor jets of scorn at the mirage of US consumerist…
Online rhetoric
Though intended to make its contents ‘democratic’, art website The Space is a perplexing jumble.…
Against the flow
As editorial design becomes more predictable, Swedish feminist quarterly Bang kicks against visual…
Energy and emotion
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Aperture’s new series of photography books may prove to be an essential educational resource for serious…
Readymade format
Design history, Visual culture
An illustrated ‘gift book’ dictionary by Heretic brings Marcel Duchamp’s ideas to a wider audience.…