Photography

Duty over disclosure

In sitting for so many portraits, the Queen has learned to turn her public face into an inscrutable mask.

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Rainbows of the inner city

Photographers in South Africa are striving to find new ways of recording the transformation of their country. Jonathan Derbyshire meets some of them in Johannesburg

Tenth World Press Photo award for Jodi Bieber

Portrait for Time Magazine is named photo of 2010.

Photographing the new South Africa

A report from Johannesburg.

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Under Siege

A tabloid outrage from a century ago.

Exhibition review: Bringing the War Home

An unconventional take on war photography at the Impressions gallery in Bradford.

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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010

An impressive selection of images from Britain and abroad at the National Portrait Gallery.

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Hero in his own movie

The photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge’s meditations on the human body inspired the wildest imaginings of modern art.

Gone in a flash

Fisun Güner on the work of a forgotten pioneer who burned out too young.

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South Vietnam, 9 June 1972 | Nick Ut

The greatest political photograph of all.

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West Bank, 1 February 2006 | Oded Balilty

A Jewish settler fights Israeli troops carrying out a Supreme Court order to demolish illegal settlement homes near Ramallah.

South Vietnam, 11 June 1963 | Malcolm Browne

The self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc in Saigon.

Mexico, 16 October 1968 | Jon Dominis

The raised fists of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Olympic games.

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Beirut, 15 August 2006 | Spencer Platt

Young Beirutis see their city after bombing by Tel Aviv in the Lebanon-Israel conflict, 2006.

Cuba, 5 March 1960 | Alberto Korda

The defining portrait of a revolutionary.

Memphis, Tennessee, 29 March 1968 | Unknown photographer

Civil rights protesters meet the National Guard at the home of the Memphis Blues.

Louisville, Kentucky, January 1937 | Margaret Bourke-White

African-American victims of a flood queue at a relief station.

Abu Ghraib, 2003 | Unknown photographer

An unidentified detainee at the US-administered Abu Ghraib prison.

Yalta, February 1945 | Unknown photographer

Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet to discuss Europe's postwar reconstruction.

Culture Vulture: pick of the blogs

Five highlights from the arts world, on Schubert, photography and the future of black literature