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Opinion: Book design

Los Angeles’ lost palace of treasures

Book design, Design history, Information design, Critique / Photography

Using photographic evidence, designer Mark Nelson has reconstructed one of the great twentieth-century art collections. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Godard becomes ‘Godard’

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

In 1961, the new wave director posed for a German fashion photographer. The publicity pictures that followed are as self-reflexive as his films. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Streets without people

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans explores the clotted terrain of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Shinjuku districts with the eye of a graphic designer

Relentless riches

Book design, Graphic design, Photography, Critique / Photography, Front matter

A busy blockbuster traces the stunning history of Japanese photobooks. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Graphic language of the wall

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti with handwritten typographic treatments made striking, almost punkish paperback covers for Le Livre de Poche

Depth and ambiguity

Book design, Photography, Visual culture

Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the photographic narrative. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Words and pictures talking

Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Photography, Typography, Critique / Photography

Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor John Sassall. How does it compare with the 1967 original? Photo Critique by Rick Poynor