“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

With its galleries, photo agencies, studios, history of magazine publishing and reputation for breeding leading photographers, New York is commonly hailed as the home of photography. Yet until this spring the city has lacked a major festival of photography to call its own. This position is set to change with the inaugural New York Photo [...]

Before she married a Beatle, Linda McCartney was a professional photographer. During the 1960s, her celebrated shots of rock gods such as Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix (whom she famously photographed mid-yawn) helped to invent the genre of rock photography. She was the first female photographer to have work – a portrait of Eric Clapton [...]