Our parents were right: we can no longer trust what we see on the internet
I’d been lied to, by the very thing I hold in my hand for the majority of my day. How…
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The myth of America’s love affair with guns
In Bloodbath Nation Paul Auster says fixing the firearms crisis requires deep cultural change. What it really needs is political…
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Nan Goldin’s politics of sex
The film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed shows how, from the Aids crisis onwards, the photographer merged steely activism…
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Picture books of the year
Love, the glory days of music portraits, and 1970s stock car racing: the best photography publications of 2022.
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Caroline Herschel’s celestial discoveries
Photographs of 560 “missing” stars shine a light on the pioneering Georgian astronomer who identified them.
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“Picturing the Invisible”: Ten years on from the Fukushima disaster
A new exhibition provides a photographic portrait of communities living with radiation and trauma a decade after the Japanese earthquake,…
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Farewell to Tom Stoddart, a photography master
His career spanned four decades and was much admired and respected for its humanity, depth and perspective.
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How Georges Simenon found his eye
In the 1930s, the creator of Maigret travelled the world as a journalist. His photographs reveal an artistic sensibility captivated…
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