Margaret Bourke-White’s 1930 photograph of the Statue of Liberty.
Last winter, when the art economy was looking especially dark, a group of Manhattan photography dealers got together and decided to put on a spirit-lifting show: “New York Photographs,” a summertime tribute to the greatest city on earth. Thirteen galleries agreed to mount exhibitions — some dedicated [...]

Annie Leibovitz sued by Art Capital Group.
American photographer Annie Leibovitz, one of the most respected in the world, will have to return a $24 million loan she received in 2008 as a result of a lawsuit filed after she did not comply with the terms of an agreement.
Art Capital Group has filed a lawsuit in [...]

Big names and new talent come together at the FORMAT09 international photography festival in Derby.

Jonas Bendiksen at the FORMAT09 international photography festival in Derby Photo: Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos
Two men mucking about on a hulk of spaceship detritus while a cloud of white butterflies swarms around them – not the kind of thing one sees [...]

Inspired by the possibilities of painting in nature, rather than in the studio, artists traveled to the rugged Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris from the early 1820s to the mid-1870s forging innovations in art that would resonate for generations to follow. There, among the rural villages and the vast and varied wilderness, they laid the [...]

Edward Steichen is one of the key figures in the history of photography. Beginning as a leading exponent of the 19th-century romantic movement called Pictorialism, Steichen metamorphosed rapidly into one of the leading lights of modernism. For more than half a century he occupied centre stage as the most famous living photographer, the medium’s first [...]

“I’ve always wanted to be different since I was a kid, and I’ve always been knocked around for it” (eight years later) (2002) by Hiroh Kikai
N.Y. Times By the International Center of Photography’s own standards, “Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video From Japan” feels a bit phoned in.
But with 13 artists, most of them in [...]

Some of Sony’s music executives believe there is a gold mine under the company’s New York headquarters on Madison Avenue. It doesn’t look like much: just a small room, three floors below ground level, with a wall full of the sliding shelves you’d find in a law firm or university library.
But the shelves hold decades [...]