Photography Now

‘A Testament to Love’ is a narrative about the struggles of life when love goes wrong.

Design Director: Johan Svensson
Photography Director: Caroline Wolfe
Art Director: Anna C. Davidson-Evans
Senior Photo Editor: Esme RenePhotographer: Ben Hassett

The relationship between these young American girls and their dolls is at once fascinating and upsetting, beginning with their astonishing resemblance.

We're dying to share every moment. We should be living instead.

In the book “The Invisible City” (Contrasto Publishing) urban spaces and buildings are revisited by Irene Kung, and become, through her camera, a different, silent and motionless space. Rome, New York, London, Madrid, Boston, Milan, Beijing…they are reimagined, becoming magical places, fascinating, full of enigmatic presence, invisible cities.

The emergence of color photography has typically been narrated through the pictures of iconic American photographers like William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz. The scope of this dialogue has only recently been expanded to include photographers working elsewhere during the 1970s and early 1980s. Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri is a favored addition to this revised history.

Despite exposure in Europe during his lifetime, Ghirri remained relatively unknown outside of Italy.

Two years ago, I spent part of November with Carolyn Russo on a trip to China, so it was great to spend time with her at Photolucida and see the culmination of her global travels resulting in her project, The Art of the Airport Tower. In talking with Carolyn about the project, she spoke to the fact that airport towers will one day become obsolete due to advanced technology. Each tower has it's own distinctive architecture worth preserving on film.

Ortiz Echagüe (Guadalajara, 1868 – Madrid, 1980) is one of the most outstanding figures in 20th-century photography in Barcelona and a key artist with a unique style of work.

As a little girl I dreamed of being an artist, a painter, I dreamed of inventing colors.

“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyone with a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” – Edward Steichen

by Jonathan Blaustein Last week, I wrote about the Holocaust. It’s a hard one to follow, even for someone like me, who rarely lacks an opinion. (Are you kidding me? That salsa was way too bland.

At a time when revolutions are breaking out across the world, Utopy explores the slogans, symbols of 20th century struggles that changed men’s destinies, from Martin Luther King, Ghandi, decolonization, the Vietnam War and 1968 to the feminist...

That juicy sensor in your new digital camera? It is increasingly similar to the film stocks of yesteryear. Here's how — and why you'd better care about it.