Wolfgang Tillmans: “Art doesn’t have a purpose”
The photographer on the decline of the London art scene post-Brexit, coming out at 16, and political responsibility.
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The striking works of the Prix Pictet shortlist
From Siân Davey to Gauri Gill, the photographers competing for the prestigious award are deeply impressive.
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Band on the rise: Paul McCartney’s candid Sixties photographs
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition of “forgotten” pictures will be revelatory for Beatles obsessives.
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Our parents were right: we can no longer trust what we see on the internet
I’d been lied to, by the very thing I hold in my hand for the majority of my day. How…
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The myth of America’s love affair with guns
In Bloodbath Nation Paul Auster says fixing the firearms crisis requires deep cultural change. What it really needs is political…
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Nan Goldin’s politics of sex
The film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed shows how, from the Aids crisis onwards, the photographer merged steely activism…
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Picture books of the year
Love, the glory days of music portraits, and 1970s stock car racing: the best photography publications of 2022.
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Caroline Herschel’s celestial discoveries
Photographs of 560 “missing” stars shine a light on the pioneering Georgian astronomer who identified them.
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“Picturing the Invisible”: Ten years on from the Fukushima disaster
A new exhibition provides a photographic portrait of communities living with radiation and trauma a decade after the Japanese earthquake,…
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Farewell to Tom Stoddart, a photography master
His career spanned four decades and was much admired and respected for its humanity, depth and perspective.
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How Georges Simenon found his eye
In the 1930s, the creator of Maigret travelled the world as a journalist. His photographs reveal an artistic sensibility captivated…
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The photo that shaped me: Jason Okundaye on his childhood home
My council flat became a source of shame – but the boy in this photograph knows nothing of that feeling.
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The photo that shaped me: Olivia Laing on Annie Leibovitz’s “The Girls”
I’ve had a copy of this photo of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon on my desk for years. When I…
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The photo that shaped me: Kevin Barry on Elvis’s packed lunch
Your eyes do not deceive: Elvis Presley buys lunch from a platform vendor.
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Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: “Openly Falling”
A new poem by the International Booker Prize winner, written in response to Curtis Parratt’s photo “Fall (5)”.
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The photo that shaped me: Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto
No photo in my writing room is quite as poignant as this one of Bhutto, taken on 27 December 2007.…
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The photo that shaped me: Deborah Levy on Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The godmother of rock’n’roll is my role model for middle age, old age and any age.
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The photo that shaped me: Suzanne Moore on her grandmother’s baby
Here is a picture of my grandmother, Grace, with the only child she gave birth to.
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The photo that shaped me: Grayson Perry on his father’s motorbike
When I was four, my dad left because my mother had an affair with the milkman. I remember my dad's bike…
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The photo that shaped me: Rowan Williams on Madeleine Delbrêl
Here she is, squatting down, head cocked, birdlike, to listen to a small girl.
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