Opinion: Visual culture
Catalogue of things
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
A close relative’s colour slides show a densely layered record of everyday life. Photo Critique by Rick…
Streets without people
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans explores the clotted terrain of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Shinjuku districts with the…
Twisting the alien
Reviews, Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Set to minimalist techno, Arthur Jafa’s APEX is a cycle of images that illuminate the condition of black…
Scenes from an imperfect world
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Even Don McCullin expressed doubts about his photographs of war and suffering. What is their message…
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…