In 1935, the photographer Dorothea Lange joined Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration project, charged with the task of inventing an iconography that would record and convey the tales of Depression-era America. It was a task that forced Lange's photography to evolve from its then port...

When Spanish photographer Ramon Masats began this photo essay in 1955, Pamplona was already a hot spot for artists and writers. It was first made popular through Ernest Hemingway's account of Sanfermines, the running of the bulls, in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises--after which publications...

German photographer Florian Maier-Aichen (born 1973) recontextualizes the Romantic Sublime of Caspar David Friedrich to account for our contemporary sense of what sublimity in landscape might be, using a fascinating and unusual combination of traditional photographic techniques and computer imaging....

With the ascent of multimedia art, feminist and postcolonial theory, and the collapse of the art gallery's "white walls," the 1970s saw countless upheavals and shifts in the paradigms of Western art--upheavals that were recorded by some of today's finest photographers. The mingling of art and socio-...

At first sight, another book surveying the life and work of this versatile and inventive artist would seem superfluous, yet surprisingly, this excellent catalogue contributes a wealth of new information, thus providing a valuable contribution to our understanding of Man Ray. The treasure trove of im...

The human act of inhabiting fascinates the Spanish photographer Javier Vallhonrat--his photographs plunge deeply into the human need to convert space into a home and to make sense of an unyielding terrain. Acaso documents a four-year project exploring this subject. Vallhonrat has also worked ...