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 [...]

The Museum of Modern Art in New York began collecting photography in the 1930s, but in the UK the Tate largely ignored the medium until 2003 when it presented Cruel and Tender, which looked at realism in photography. Next week sees the opening of Street & Studio, Tate Modern’s second major historical photographic show.
Made up [...]

‘I bought my first erotic photograph in the mid-1980s,’ Danny Moynihan tells me. ‘I had come across some photos of Austrian origin of rather portly looking ladies in petticoats playing with sex toys. I thought they were rather amusing.’
Moynihan is an artist and a curator. He has collaborated frequently with his friend Damien Hirst and [...]

On patrol near the Mississippi river one afternoon in November 1955, Lt RE Brown of the Arkansas State Police spotted a suspicious, ‘foreign-looking’ man driving down the highway in a battered old Ford and pulled him over. Unshaven and shabbily dressed, the man didn’t have proper ID and his car was full of maps, foreign [...]