The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders’ tribute to Sebastião Salgado has been nominated at this year’s Academy Awards. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Photography
The Visual Politics of Rwanda
Twenty years on from Rwanda, Griselda Pollock looks at the questions Alfredo Jaar’s celebrated Rwanda Project raised in its approach to art and images of victimisation in post-traumatic cultures. Continue reading
Out now, new Visual Culture catalogue 2014
We are delighted to announce that our Visual Culture catalogue for 2014 has arrived. Continue reading
Philippa Brewster Wins Prestigious Publishing Award
We are delighted to spread the news that the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation have announced Philippa Brewster, Senior Visual Culture Editor at I.B.Tauris, as the 2014 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing recipient. Continue reading
Air Power in World War I
Our understanding of the First World War tends to focus on trench warfare, but by looking at the perspectives of British pilots the limitations of an army-centric approach is revealed. Continue reading
Cindy Sherman’s Theatres of Perversity
Maria Walsh on how Cindy Sherman’s ‘Doll’ sculptures of the 1990s reveal a dynamic relationship between art and psychoanalysis. Continue reading
Marcel Proust: Court on Camera
If you can’t share a photograph of Marcel Proust playing air-guitar with a tennis racket when it’s the opening day of Wimbledon, when can you? Continue reading
Flying Everest: The Goddess Mother of the World
Circumnavigating the globe in a biplane, Richard Halliburton took the first aerial photograph of Mount Everest. Continue reading
Posing for Posterity
Royal Indian Portraits, 1840-1932. Continue reading
Why Remember? Seeing From Above With Hein Gorny
In 1945, two men sought to record the destruction of war-torn Berlin. Continue reading
In Photos: London’s Deep Level Shelters
Corin Faife. Continue reading
A Kind of a ‘Huh?’: The Siting of Twentysix Gasoline Stations
Ian Walker retraces the steps of Ed Ruscha’s infamous photobook, Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Continue reading