The photographer Santu Mofokeng is one of the most vital artists to emerge from South Africa’s late apartheid era. From his distinctive portrayals of township life to his acclaimed reassessment of the
It is largely thanks to László Moholy-Nagy’s artistic and journalistic efforts that photography became an integral part of modern artistic creation, starting in the 1920s. His photograms are icons of
This book is Tomasz Gudzowaty’s exploration of the compelling sport of sumo. Here Gudzowaty documents not only the wrestlers in the throes of combat, but also earnest life within the training stables
Conceived and edited by artist Slavica Perkovic, this book for Lewis Baltz presents letters she asked Baltz’s friends to write to him without seeing the images he had secretly made while teaching in V
While William Eggleston needs little introduction as a master of color photography, few are aware of his fi ne ability as a pianist. Musik (Vinyl), consisting of two vinyl LPs, is only the second, and
Wild Window is Andrea Ferrari’s personal cabinet of curiosities, a collection of photos of taxidermy animals, shells, eggs and coral that explores the gaze as a universal trait shared by both humans a
Teen Tribe is a series of intimate portraits of Martine Fougeron’s two adolescent sons and their tribe of friends growing up in New York and France. Begun in 2005, Fougeron has followed the lives of h
Nancy Spero is one of the most intriguing artists of her generation. Her multifaceted oeuvre explores the existential questions of humankind―the relations between the sexes, in particular, and the rol
One of the foremost American photographers of the twentieth century, Harry Callahan explored the expressive possibilities of both color and black-and-white photography from the outset of his career in
First published in the United States in 1967 and in Britain in 1968, House of Bondage presented images from South Africa that shocked the world. The young African photographer had left his country at
In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard released his film “Week-end.” One of its scenes, in which the two protagonists stubbornly overtake an extensive traffic jam in a Facel Vega Facellia cabriolet, qualifies as th
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is a defining film of the silent era and science fiction genre. But the work of the film’s still photographer Horst von Harbou has remained obscure. Von Harbou, brother
As a child Bernard Sabrier was given a map of the Pacific by his father, and since then the archipelago of Vanuatu has remained in his imagination. Forty years later, Sabrier travelled to Vanuatu and
