Sean O'Hagan
Garry Winogrand, edited by Leo Rubinfien et al - review
Culled from thousands of prints and unprocessed films, this collection of Garry Winogrand's photographs confirms him as a giant of American photography To say that Garry Winogrand was productive is to dramatically understate the case. When he died in 198
Maurizio Anzeri's embroidered photographs
The British-based Italian artist adds coloured thread to found photographs, covering and subverting the poignancy that attends all discarded images We are used to viewing a photograph as an end result. But what if a photo is used as just the starting poi
New York Arbor by Mitch Epstein - review
Mitch Epstein's photographs of New York trees are a wonderful reminder of nature's place in the metropolis Formost of 2011 Mitch Epstein wandered the five boroughs of New York in search of trees. Following on from his epic series, American Power , whi
Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport - review
Sean O'Hagan enjoys a history of the birth of photography told as a fierce race between two rivals "I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight." So wrote Louis Daguerre in a letter to his friend Charles Chevalier in 1839. A flamboyant and ruthle
Master of colour William Eggleston wins Outstanding Contribution award
Shunned in the 60s as banal but now revered by everyone from David Lynch to Juergen Teller, this pioneer of disturbing colour photography to be honoured at Sony World Photography Awards William Eggleston , whose colour photographs were dismissed as "banSnaps by Elliott Erwitt - review
From civil rights to grieving families, Magnum's master of mischief shows his serious side in a powerful collection of images Once, when asked about the playfulness of many of his images, Elliott Erwitt replied: "I'm not a serious photographer like man
The High and Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb by John Cohen - review
John Cohen's photographs of Kentucky musician Roscoe Holcomb evoke a rural way of life that has all but disappeared In 1959, John Cohen, photographer, musician and musicologist, travelled to East Kentucky "to search for old music and to take photographs"
Eliot Porter: In the Realm of
The late photographer Eliot Porter has left a stunning record of the shrinking American wilderness Not many photographers can say they helped change the way we look at the world politically and socially as well as formally, but, as Paul Martineau point
