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Ladies’ room, 1977

“This may sound unusual today,

but if you wanted to make love with somebody,

people were making love on the balconies,

and they were making love in the bathrooms.

This was taken in the ladies’ room.

In the very, very far left you can see me

– I didn’t know that I was in the picture.”

Photograph: ©Hasse Persson

Studio 54: heady daze of disco decadence – in pictures

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Saturday 14 March 2015    23.00 GMT

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/mar/14/
studio-54-heady-daze-of-disco-decadence-in-pictures

Hannah Norton    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2024/jun/19/
tottenham-community-cook-up-in-pictures

Ian Berry    UK

Baku, Azerbaijan

A sea mist shrouds the mixed pollution of oil and water

on the shores of the Caspian Sea, 1994

Monsoons, drought … and adventure:

our world of water – in pictures

‘There is too much water in some places, too little in others,’

says Ian Berry, who has spent years documenting the links

between landscape, life and water

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Wed 12 Jul 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/12/
monsoons-drought-and-adventure-our-world-of-water-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/12/
monsoons-drought-and-adventure-our-world-of-water-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Margaret Mitchell    UK

Summer visiting her mum, 2021

Much of the work in An Ordinary Eden considers

the human condition and relationships with loved ones.

Love, loss and longing are touched on

in images that follow parts of people’s life stories

Photograph: Margaret Mitchell

‘What do we need to feel safe?’

Lives affected by homelessness – in pictures

Margaret Mitchell’s photographs examine

the physical and emotional impact of losing a home

– and people’s efforts to rebuild their lives

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Wed 17 May 2023     07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/17/
what-do-we-need-to-feel-safe-lives-affected-by-homelessness-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/17/
what-do-we-need-to-feel-safe-lives-affected-by-homelessness-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Lori Grinker    USA

Audrey waits for the movers

to bring in her furniture to her new apartment

in an assisted living facility,

Aventura, Miami, Fla., May, 2020.

Photograph: Lori Grinker

As she nursed her mom through cancer and dementia,

a tense relationship began to heal

NPR

January 8, 2023    5:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/08/
1146393429/as-she-nursed-her-mom-through-cancer-and-dementia-a-tense-relationship-began-to-

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/08/
1146393429/as-she-nursed-her-mom-through-cancer-and-dementia-
a-tense-relationship-began-to-

Mavis CW    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/20/
shady-moments-new-york-street-life-in-pictures-mavis-cw

Caleb Stein    UK

Photograph: Caleb Stein

Long Time No See

http://www.caleb-stein.com/long-time-no-see/kjgo4ijt414wbhxwlb53lt19gip11v

http://www.caleb-stein.com/long-time-no-see

http://www.caleb-stein.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2022/aug/15/
down-by-the-river-in-upstate-new-york-in-pictures

Michael Dressel    East Germany

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/apr/13/
hollywood-heartbreak-broken-california-dreams-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Gauri Gill    India

Waterwells

Photograph: Gauri Gill

Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet award – in pictures

The Indian photographer Gauri Gill has been declared

the winner of the 10th cycle of the Prix Pictet,

the global award for photography and sustainability.

She was selected from a shortlist of 12 photographers

by an independent jury.

Gill’s work emphasises her belief

in working with and through community,

in what she calls ‘active listening’.

For more than two decades,

she has been closely engaged with marginalised communities

in the desert of western Rajasthan, north India,

and for the last decade with Indigenous artists in Maharashtra.

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Fri 29 Sep 2023    05.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/29/
gauri-gill-wins-prix-pictet-award-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Gill’s work emphasises her belief

in working with and through community,

in what she calls ‘active listening’.

For more than two decades,

she has been closely engaged

with marginalised communities

in the desert of western Rajasthan,

north India, and for the last decade

with Indigenous artists

in Maharashtra.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/29/
gauri-gill-wins-prix-pictet-award-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/29/
gauri-gill-wins-prix-pictet-award-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Sage Sohier    USA

Andrea Modica    USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Andrea_Modica

https://www.andreamodica.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/27/
andrea-modica-
catholic-girl-1984-photography-book-school-new-york-new-haven

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/
magazine/poem-portrait-of-d17-female-37-years-old.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/21/
arts/art-in-review-andrea-modica.html

Nick Waplington    UK / USA

Nick Waplington’s Living Room

caused a sensation

when it was published,

with its glimpses of everyday homes

in Thatcher’s Britain.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/apr/09/
nick-waplington-living-room-in-pictures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nick_Waplington

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/apr/09/
nick-waplington-living-room-in-pictures

Anton Corbijn    Netherlands

David Bowie, Chicago, 1980

Photograph: © Anton Corbijn

Interview

‘I make stars look interesting, not beautiful’:

Anton Corbijn on his favourite portraits

Interview by Tim Jonze

David Bowie was a gent,

Naomi Campbell was a revelation

and Virgil Abloh was hauntingly prophetic.

The great portrait photographer Anton Corbijn

relives five of his best shoots

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Wed 26 Jan 2022    06.00 GMT

Last modified on Wed 26 Jan 2022    12.10 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/26/
anton-corbjin-portraits-interview-david-bowie-naomi-campbell-virgil-abloh

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2023/
aug/01/anton-corbijn-photographs-artists-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/26/
anton-corbjin-portraits-interview-david-bowie-naomi-campbell-virgil-abloh

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/01/
anton-corbijn-on-40-years-shooting-depeche-mode

Rahim Fortune    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/22/
tears-over-texas-grief-and-gunshot-wounds-in-the-american-south-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Joseph M Giordano    USA

Jason Wolfman (left)

and the Power Animal System ensemble

Before it was cancelled,

Baltimore’s Transmodern festival

was a celebration of LGBTQA+ life

Eternally 3am: Baltimore after dark – in pictures

From raucous drag nights to hip-hop battles in boxing gyms,

Joseph M Giordano’s photographs from the last 25 years

capture the city’s vibrant nightlife

– before the pandemic left it shuttered

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Tue 9 Feb 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/09/
baltimore-after-dark-joseph-giordano-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/09/
baltimore-after-dark-joseph-giordano-in-pictures

Kamoinge Workshop    USA

collective of black photographers

who formed in 1963

to document black culture

in Harlem, and beyond,

from live jazz concerts to portraits

of Malcolm X, Miles Davis

and Grace Jones,

as well as the civil rights movement

and anti-war protests.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/07/
the-kamoinge-legacy-black-photographers-changed-game

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/
arts/design/black-kamoinge-photographer-whitney.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/07/
the-kamoinge-legacy-black-photographers-changed-game

Jesse Lenz    USA

Laura Pannack    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/12/
vapes-snakes-fireworks-the-cracker-laura-pannack-west-midlands-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Ronald "Charlie" Phillips    Jamaica, UK

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/25/
charlie-phillips-
why-did-it-take-so-long-for-one-of-britains-greatest-photographers-
to-get-his-due

Alessandra Sanguinetti    USA

No caption

Photograph: Alessandra Sanguinetti

Reflections on mortality:

Alessandra Sanguinetti on her ​eerie images of the midwest

Inspired by a cult 1970s book,

the Magnum photographer travelled to Black River Falls in Wisconsin

to create an eerie and timeless portrait of rural America

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Sun 18 Sep 2022    13.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/18/
some-say-ice-alessandra-sanguinetti-photography-midwest

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/18/
some-say-ice-alessandra-sanguinetti-photography-midwest

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/17/
teenage-dreamers-growing-up-in-rural-argentina-
in-pictures  - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/may/18/
home-through-the-eyes-of-photographers-around-the-world-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Peter Kayafas    USA

Twin Bridges, Montana, 2014

‘I have a secret, wrote the poet HD, I am alive.

Here in the west we exist with a similar secret:

we each carry within us an often-thumping joy and despair.’

G

Wed 1 Apr 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/01/
myths-magic-new-american-west-pictures-cowboys-rodeos-peter-kayafas

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/01/
myths-magic-new-american-west-pictures-cowboys-rodeos-peter-kayafas
- Guardian picture gallery

George Etheredge    USA

Washington, N.C.

Photograph: George Etheredge

A Son of the South’s Quiet Photos of a Complex Region

During his travels across the South,

the photographer George Etheredge

documents the region,

with scenes that invite lingering.

NYT

May 6, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/
lens/a-son-of-the-souths-quiet-photos-of-a-complex-region.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/
lens/a-son-of-the-souths-quiet-photos-of-a-complex-region.html

Stephen DiRado    USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/06/
673767734/a-photographer-turns-a-lens-
on-his-fathers-alzheimers

Andrea Bruce    USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/28/
606075327/award-winning-images-touch-your-head-and-your-heart

Kurt Markus    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/dec/08/
kurt-markus-cowboy-photographer-in-pictures-
montana-boxing-fashion-nudes - Guardian picture gallery

Lucas Foglia    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/sep/14/
it-brought-people-back-together-the-summer-after-911-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Michael Kenna    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/28/
michael-kenna-artist-photograph-image-japan-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/07/
elegant-minimalism-michael-kennas-japanese-landscapes-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Gary Krueger    USA

Halloween party, 1980

Now in his 70s, Krueger is taking a look back:

‘I don’t think the world is ever going to be

as good as it was for us then.

I really think we lived in the golden age’

La-la land: the playful side of Los Angeles – in pictures

American photographer Gary Krueger believes

he lived through a ‘golden age’ in 1970s and 80s Los Angeles.

A new exhibition pulls together his playful street photography

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Thu 4 Feb 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/04/
la-la-land-playful-side-of-los-angeles-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/04/
la-la-land-playful-side-of-los-angeles-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Lisa McCord    USA

Self-Portrait at Dining Room Table

Lisa McCord:

‘These photographs are complicated;

they exist in the context of the socioeconomic structures

of the rural south.

Although the subjects are family to me,

as a white photographer and the granddaughter of a landowner,

my photographs of the Black community implicate my own role

in reinforcing these power structures.

In a community

in which most people spend their time working or caring for children,

my ability to observe and document in itself

has been a position of privilege’

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Tue 21 May 2024    08.00 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/21/
rotan-switch-lisa-mccord-photography

In 1978,

21-year-old Lisa McCord began

photographing her grandparents’

cotton farm in Rotan, rural Arkansas.

What resulted

is a deeply personal exploration

of home and community, race

and industry.

‘I developed close relationships

with the people who worked

on the farm.

They welcomed me into their homes;

I’d hang out with them at the juke joints

where they relaxed

at the end of a hard week of work.

We’d share fried chicken

and black-eyed peas.

We’d sing Sweet Jesus,

Carry Me Home

in St John Missionary Baptist church.’

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/21/
rotan-switch-lisa-mccord-photography

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/21/
rotan-switch-lisa-mccord-photography

Jessica Lange    USA

Mississippi

Photograph: Jessica Lange

powerHouse Books

Highway 61 Revisited, With Jessica Lange

With a new book of her photographs

and a gallery show to follow,

the two-time Oscar winner talks about her passion

for being behind the camera.

NYT

Sept. 25, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/
arts/design/jessica-lange-photography.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jessica_Lange

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/sep/30/
highway-61-revisited-jessica-lange-explores-the-historic-route-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/
arts/design/jessica-lange-photography.html

Matthew Finn    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/04/
my-mum-was-my-muse-she-was-the-star-of-every-photo

John Downing    UK

The photojournalist

(...)

captured award-winning images

during his time as one

of 64 Daily Express staff photographers

in the halcyon days of Fleet Street

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/jun/15/
the-photography-of-john-downing

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/jun/15/
the-photography-of-john-downing

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/26/
john-downing-best-photograph-afghan-mujahideen-house

Albert Watson    UK

Scottish photographer Albert Watson

began taking pictures of celebrities in 1973,

when he famously shot Alfred Hitchcock

holding a dead goose for Harper’s Bazaar.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/nov/29/
albert-watson-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/nov/29/
albert-watson-celebrity-portraits-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Paul Reas    UK

The Bradford-born artist

has been photographing Britain for 40 years,

documenting the decline of industry,

the rise of consumer culture,

and the disenfranchisement

of the British working class.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/
dec/04/paul-reas-britain-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/dec/04/
paul-reas-britain-in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Kevin Frayer    Canada

A woman sits on the beach,

exhausted from her ordeal.

Photograph: Kevin Frayer

Survivors arrive with horrifying accounts

of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed

in the ‘clearance operations’

by Myanmar’s army and Buddhist mobs

Documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis – in pictures

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Saturday 14 October 2017    08.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/oct/14/
documenting-the-rohingya-refugee-crisis-in-pictures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kevin_Frayer

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/03/
myanmar-rohingya-refugee-camps-bangladesh-photography-kevin-frayer

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/oct/14/
documenting-the-rohingya-refugee-crisis-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Meryl Meisler    USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Meryl_Meisler

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/26/
salons-strippers-and-sexy-beach-kisses-american-street-life-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/
lens/a-photographers-search-for-joy-in-uncertain-times-
new-york-album.html

Nathan Farb    USA

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/
1967s-other-summer-of-love/

Walden Pond    USA

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/
walden-pond-where-you-find-more-selfies-than-self-reflection/

Susan Meiselas    USA

Northern Iraq, Kurdistan, June 1992.

Widow at mass grave found in Koreme

A visual evocation of a people without a homeland,

Meiselas’s Kurdistan series In the Shadow of History

began in 1997.

Susan Meiselas:

from the dressing room to the danger zone - in pictures

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7 February 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/07/
susan-meiselas-mediations-photography-jeu-de-paume-paris

Susan Meiselas has spent

five fearless decades

at the frontline of history,

photographing revolutionaries, teenagers

and risque carnival dancers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/
lens/susan-meiselas-mediations.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/07/
susan-meiselas-mediations-photography-jeu-de-paume-paris

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/
behind-the-mask-scenes-from-nicaraguas-sandinista-revolution/

https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/10/31/
blogs/behind-the-mask-scenes-from-nicaraguas-sandinista-revolution/s/
27-lens-nicaragua-slide-8AQ4.html

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/
empowering-photographers-to-embrace-an-uncertain-future/

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/
arts/international/Photo-Project-Breaks-Barriers-in-Morocco.html

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/
when-interest-creates-a-conflict/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/
arts/design/11magn.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/
arts/01iht-magnum.1.6932735.html

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/
m/meiselas-kurdistan.html - April 1991

Joseph Rodriguez    USA

‘This was a Bible class on Easter Sunday

– passing by I saw the word ‘abomination’

on the board.

In this photograph

I wanted to reference the classroom experience,

as well as the abominations that happened in the community

– poverty, crime, drug addiction, Aids, gentrification.’

Photograph: Joseph Rodriguez

Spanish Harlem in the 1980s – in pictures

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Saturday 9 September 2017    00.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017
/sep/09/spanish-harlem-in-the-1980s-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017
/sep/09/spanish-harlem-in-the-1980s-in-pictures

Dafydd Jones    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/23/
dafydd-jones-photographs-new-york-high-life-low-life

Tria Giovan    USA

‘The view from my window of 29 Clinton Street.

My neighbours perch on their fire escape

to watch a wrestling match taking place on the street below.

The urban soundtrack was music

– namely merengue and salsa –

mixed with fighting,

yelling and the noise of family gatherings

on the neighbouring fire escapes.

It was like an ongoing opera. I loved living there’

Vintage New York:

adventures on the Lower East Side – in pictures

Tria Giovan spent six years

photographing the area of downtown Manhattan’s fights,

feasts and family gatherings

before gentrification changed it for good

G

Wed 16 Aug 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/aug/16/
vintage-new-york-adventures-on-the-lower-east-side-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/aug/16/
vintage-new-york-adventures-on-the-lower-east-side-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Irma Bohórquez-Geisler    Mexico, USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/
among-mexicans-in-new-york-decisive-moments/

Clarence Williams    USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/
a-fathers-gift-to-his-son/

David Snider    USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/
a-photographers-homage-to-his-blind-parents/

Gregory Crewdson    USA

The Woman at Sink. 2014.

Photograph: Gregory Crewdson.

Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.

Alone, in a Crowd, With Gregory Crewdson

NYT

Jan. 25, 2016      

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/
alone-in-a-crowd-with-gregory-crewdson/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/25/
an-exhausted-dream-america-faces-its-twilight-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/
alone-in-a-crowd-with-gregory-crewdson/

https://www.npr.org/2012/11/13/
164978607/brief-encounters-with-real-life-
from-a-scene-setting-photographer

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5157819 - January 16, 2006 -
NPR podcast with transcript

20th, 21st century    USA    David Graham

  Rosalind Fox Solomon    USA

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/mar/08/
guys-and-dolls-rosalind-fox-solomon-photographs-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Hiroji Kubota / 久保田 博二    Japan

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/
hiroji-kubota-photographer/

William Coupon    USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/
punk-portraits-of-new-york/

Neal Preston    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/oct/27/
rock-photography-by-neal-preston-in-pictures-elton-john-rolling-stones

 James Ravilious    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/nov/09/
scenes-from-devon-rural-past-james-ravilious-beaford-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Shawn Walker    USA

Mr. Walker’s

layered and complex images

are influenced by a range of artists

and photographers who,

in addition to Mr. DeCarava,

include Charles White,

Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence,

Henri Cartier-Bresson and Minor White.

Above all, he sees himself

as a latter-day surrealist,

pushing the formal and conceptual

boundaries of photography.

“I’ve always been taken by Surrealism,”

Mr. Walker said,

fascinated by its penchant

for teasing out the extraordinary

in commonplace things and situations.

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/
a-photographers-search-for-the-magic-in-everyday-life/

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/
a-photographers-search-for-the-magic-in-everyday-life/

Mike Abrahams    UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mike_Abrahams

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jun/26/
britain-through-the-thatcher-years-in-pictures

Graham Smith    UK

Clay Lane Furnaces, South Bank, Middlesbrough,

1981.

Photograph: © Graham Smith,

courtesy Augusta Edwards Fine Art

The big picture:

life in the shadow of a Teeside ironworks by Graham Smith

The Middlesbrough-born photographer’s 1981 portrait

has intimations of the gruelling working life endured by his father

and of Britain’s lost industrial past

G

Sun 24 Mar 2024    08.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/24/
the-big-picture-life-shadow-teeside-ironworks--20-20-martin-parr-graham-smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Graham_Smith_(photographer)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/apr/02/
north-east-chris-killip-graham-smith-heavy-industry

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/24/
the-big-picture-life-shadow-teeside-ironworks--
20-20-martin-parr-graham-smith

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/15/
demon

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/11/
chris-killip-and-graham-smith

Ming Smith    USA

Detroit-born and raised

in Columbus, Ohio,

she had arrived in New York a year earlier

after graduating from Howard University.

Her first published pictures appeared

in the inaugural, renowned

Black Photographers Annual in 1973.

The annual,

with an introduction by Toni Morrison,

featured the work of artists

from the Kamoinge Workshop in Harlem,

which was a prime mover

in the Black Arts movement.

Smith had become

the first female member of that group.

Her biography in the annual read:

“New York amateur photographer Ming Smith

has been taking pictures for less than a year.

She is a self-taught photographer,

who was first influenced by her father.

‘My photographs,’ she says,

‘attempt to open the passageway

to my understanding of myself.’”

Part of that understanding came

from wandering the Lower West Side

neighbourhood in which she lived,

“following the light”,

as she describes it,

looking for the places, as here,

in which it collected and came alive.

Her biography wasn’t quite accurate;

she had been taking pictures

with her dad since she was a girl;

at Howard she photographed

a young Cassius Clay

and went on to take

celebrated portraits of everyone

from her friend Grace Jones

to James Baldwin

and Nina Simone.

In 1979, she was the first

Black female photographer

to have work bought

by the Museum of Modern Art

(an accolade she likened

to “winning an Oscar

and no one knowing”).

This picture is included

in a retrospective of Smith’s work,

On the Road,

at the Nicola Vasell gallery

in New York.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/12/
the-big-picture-ming-smith-on-the-road-setting-out-to-sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ming_Smith

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/12/
the-big-picture-ming-smith-on-the-road-setting-out-to-sea

Alec Gill    UK

The last gasp:

Hull life during the fishing industry’s death – in pictures

In 1971, photographer Alec Gill began

documenting the lives of Hull’s Hessle Road fishing community,

as the city witnessed the downturn of its main trade

G

Thu 9 May 2024    08.00 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/09/
hull-life-during-the-death-of-the-fishing-industry-alec-gill-in-pictures

In 1971,

photographer Alec Gill began

documenting the lives of Hull’s

Hessle Road fishing community,

as the city witnessed

the downturn of its main trade

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/09/
hull-life-during-the-death-of-the-fishing-industry-alec-gill-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Paul McDonough    USA

Cannon Beach, Oregon, 1971

Sweltering sidewalks:

catching the heat in 1970s America – in pictures

Street photographer Paul McDonough left gritty New York behind him

to photograph the youth of America enjoying the summer

from Austin to Portland

G

Thu 17 Jun 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/17/
sweltering-sidewalks-catching-the-heat-in-1970s-america-in-pictures-paul-mcdonough#img-12

Related

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2021/may/09/
the-big-picture-sandcastles-on-americas-final-frontier

street photographer

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/17/
sweltering-sidewalks-
catching-the-heat-in-1970s-america-in-pictures-paul-mcdonough

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2021/may/09/
the-big-picture-sandcastles-on-americas-final-frontier

Carrie Boretz    USA

Street ventriloquist, East 42nd Street,

1977

Photograph: Carrie Boretz

High jinks and hard knocks:

New York in the 70s, 80s and 90s

G

Tue 27 Feb 2018    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/27/
new-york-70s-80s-and-90s-carrie-boretz-in-pictures

Carrie Boretz photographed

the last years of old New York

– before the city was cleaned up,

the graffiti scrubbed off

and the grittiness polished away.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/27/
new-york-70s-80s-and-90s-carrie-boretz-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/27/
new-york-70s-80s-and-90s-carrie-boretz-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/
carrie-boretz-real-life-on-new-yorks-streets/

Ray Green    UK

Observer photographer Ray Green

visited George at his digs for a series of portraits

in April 1967

Photograph: Ray Green

for the Observer

George Best – a life in pictures

G

Wednesday 25 November 2015    15.47 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2015/nov/25/
george-best-a-life-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2015/nov/25/
george-best-a-life-in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Hunter Barnes    USA

Ángel Franco    USA

Paulina Adames, 46,

pictured in her apartment,

does community outreach for St. Simon Stock.

Photograph: Ángel Franco

The New York Times

In the Bronx,

Photographing a Church for the Poor

NYT

Sep. 25, 2015

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/
in-the-bronx-photographing-a-church-for-the-poor/

New York Times staff photographer

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/
in-the-bronx-photographing-a-church-for-the-poor/

Brigitte Lacombe    France

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/02/
brigitte-lacombes-photography-celebrity

Devin Allen    USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/
devin-allens-inside-story-in-baltimore/

Kenji Kawano    Japan, USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/
kenji-kawano-40-years-with-the-navajo/

Clarence Elie-Rivera    USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/
lower-east-side-story/

Hasse Persson

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/mar/14/
studio-54-heady-daze-of-disco-decadence-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Janette Beckman    UK

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/
hip-hop-she-wont-stop/

Vanessa Winship    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jun/21/
planet-of-the-dispossessed-in-pictures-vanessa-winship-barbican

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/
no-longer-an-invisible-photographer/

Nicholas Nixon    USA

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/19/
nicholas-nixon-40-years-brown-sisters-portraits-moma

Michael Zagaris    USA

rock photographer

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/07/
rock-photographer-michael-zagaris-the-who-rolling-stones

Bernard Plossu    Vietnam, France

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bernard_Plossu

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/mar/28/
bonjour-cowboy-america-through-the-eyes-of-a-frenchman-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/
travel/transformative-travel-4-ways.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2007/02/23/
bernard-plossu-la-photo-en-liberte
_875593_3246.html

Joel Meyerowitz    USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Joel_Meyerowitz

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jun/20/
ole-joel-meyerowitzs-vintage-european-road-trip-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/16/
the-big-picture-joel-meyerowitz-in-1960s-malaga

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/04/
joel-meyerowitz-life-in-photography-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/
magazine/joel-meyerowitzs-career-is-minihistory-of-photography.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/
t-magazine/art/joel-meyerowitz-photographs-color-london.html

https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/05/22/
t-magazine/joel-meyerowitz-towards-colour-1962-1978/s/22tmag-joel-slide-A03S.html

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/
joel-meyerowitz-finds-beauty-in-the-ordinary/

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/
arts/design/joel-meyerowitz-in-new-book-and-at-howard-greenberg-gallery.html

Dennis Stock    USA

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/
james-dean-dennis-stock-life-lens-photos/

Arthur Tress    USA

‘Violence from around the world

is brought to us by the media’ …

Boy in TV Set, Boston, 1972.

Photograph: Arthur Tress

Arthur Tress’s best photograph:

a boy from the Boston ghetto hides with a gun

Interview by Karin Andreasson

G

Thursday 26 March 2015    08.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/26/
arthur-tress-best-photograph-boy-gun-tv-set-boston

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Arthur_Tress

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/dec/01/
magic-eyes-the-surreal-world-of-arthur-tress-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/26/
arthur-tress-best-photograph-boy-gun-tv-set-boston

João Silva    SA

João Silva is a war photographer

based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

His images have won numerous awards,

including the World Press Photo.

He is the co-writer

of the Bang Bang Club book

that the movie was based on.

In 2010

Silva lost both his legs

after stepping on a land mine

while on assignment in Afganistan.

http://www.thebangbangclub.com/joao-silva.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/
business/south-africa-economy-apartheid.html

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/twenty-years-after-apartheid/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/joao-silva-looking-back-moving-forward/

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/
135513724/two-war-photographers-on-their-injuries-ethics

Greg Marinovich    SA

Born in South Africa in 1962,

Greg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning

photographer who documented

South Africa’s transition to democracy.

http://www.thebangbangclub.com/greg-marinovich.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/
135513724/two-war-photographers-on-their-injuries-ethics

Julian Wasser    USA

Julian Wasser’s

Photographs of the California Dream,

and its Underbelly

https://archive.nytimes.com/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/
julian-wasser-the-way-we-were-
photographs-of-the-california-dream-and-its-underbelly/

Mark Seliger    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jan/05/
mark-seliger-photography

Flo:

Portrait of a Street Photographer    2013

This short documentary

profiles the photographer Flo Fox who,

in spite of near-blindness and multiple sclerosis,

continues her work in the streets of New York.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/
100000002510964/flo.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/
100000002510964/flo.html

Leigh Ledare    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/09/
leigh-ledare-photographs-mother-having-sex

Vanessa Winship    UK

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/may/27/
vanessa-winship-american-us-photography

Sheila Rock    USA, UK

Sheila Rock was born in the United States

and has lived and worked

in London since 1970.

Since 1979,

she has had a successful career

photographing the entertainment

and music industry.

https://www.rockarchive.com/photographers/sheila-rock

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/apr/08/
sheila-rock-punk-the-clash-siouxsie-sioux-
pictures-gallery - Guardian picture gallery

Kevin Cummins    UK

rock photographer

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/gallery/2014/jun/24/
new-order-by-kevin-cummins-a-new-show-in-manchester
- Guardian picture gallery

Baron Wolman    USA

Baron Wolman's Woodstock – in pictures

From a cow's eye view of the action

to life on Groovy Way,

Baron Wolman's revealing photos

of the revellers at Woodstock

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/22/
baron-wolman-woodstock-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/22/
baron-wolman-woodstock-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/22/
baron-wolman-woodstock-photographs-thought-never-anything-like-this

Jeffrey Henson Scales    USA

Photographer Bob Mazzer

has taken pictures

on the tube in London for 40 years

– as a 60s schoolboy,

carrying a twin-lens Rolleiflex,

then as a commuter in the 80s,

wielding a Leica M4.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jul/27/
photography-london-underground-bob-mazzer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jul/27/
photography-london-underground-bob-mazzer
 - Guardian picture gallery

Ed Drew's Afghanistan:

the first wet-plate conflict photos

in 150 years

US military gunner Ed Drew  used methods

from the early days of photography

to create striking portraits

that recall images from the American civil war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/jul/22/photography-art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/jul/22/
photography-art

America in ruins:

how States of Decay captures beauty

in derelict buildings - in pictures

2013

Photographers

Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix

toured the United States

to capture crumbling buildings

that were once schools,

prisons and asylums.

Their images range

from the majestic to the eerie,

and show worlds once full of life,

now long forgotten.

Take a look

inside these lost palaces

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jul/17/
states-of-decay-america-derelict-beauty-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jul/17/
states-of-decay-america-derelict-beauty-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Mat Collishaw    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
mat-collishaw 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/apr/26/
mat-collishaw-still-sensational 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/apr/26/
mat-collishaw-works-of-art-gallery-in-pictures#/

Arthur Grace    USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Arthur_Grace

Bill Rauhauser    USA

Photography was a hobby for Bill Rauhauser

for much of his life.

Born and raised in Detroit,

a city that made things,

he worked as an architectural engineer

and took pictures on the side.

That all changed on a business trip

to New York City in 1947,

when he caught an exhibit

by Henri Cartier-Bresson

at the Museum of Modern Art.

He was amazed by the pictures,

and even more so by the words he read

in a booklet about the show.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/detroit-from-both-sides-of-the-coin/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/
detroit-from-both-sides-of-the-coin/

Picture Post photographer

Thurston Hopkins at 100 - audio slideshow

2013

On his 100th birthday this week,

one of the great photojournalists

of the 20th century, Thurston Hopkins,

talks about his career as a photographer

at Picture Post

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2013/apr/19/
picture-post-thurston-hopkins

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2013/apr/19/
picture-post-thurston-hopkins

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/apr/12/
photography-thurston-hopkins-photojournalist-picture-post

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/oct/11/
photography
 

Mike Brodie:

A Period of Juvenile Prosperity - in pictures

30 March 2013

Mike Brodie was 18

when he started riding the railroad.

He came back after five years

with a vivid photographic record

of a teen subculture

living a perilous life on the tracks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/mar/30/
mike-brodie-juvenile-train-rider-photos-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/mar/30/
mike-brodie-juvenile-train-rider-photos-
in-pictures- Guardian picture gallery

Conjoined twins

through Annabel Clark's lens - in pictures

2012

For four years, Annabel Clark

has been photographing

sisters Lupita and Carmen Andrade.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2012/jun/08/
conjoined-twins-annabel-clark-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2012/jun/08/
conjoined-twins-annabel-clark-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Obama's People by Nadav Kander    USA

 2009

Just before Barack Obama's

administration took office,

photographer Nadav Kander

was invited to take portraits

of the key members of his team.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/aug/30/
barack-obama-photography

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/aug/30/
barack-obama-photography

Terence Donovan's fashion photography

- in pictures

From the artistic whirl of postwar London

to the swinging 60s,

Terence Donovan made his name

photographing the best in British fashion.

A new book brings together highlights

from over 40 years of his work,

including  extraordinary images

of Cindy Crawford

and Vogue's Grace Coddington

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/gallery/2012/nov/05/terence-donovan-fashion-photography-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/gallery/2012/nov/05/
terence-donovan-fashion-photography-pictures
 

Ethnic minorities in the armed services

– in pictures

2012

Photographer Kit Oates

was given exclusive access

to MoD bases to record the views

of non-white recruits.

Here are 10 of the portraits he took.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/oct/20/
ethnic-minorities-armed-services-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/oct/20/
ethnic-minorities-armed-services-pictures

Robert Ormerord    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2012/sep/21/
pigeon-fanciers-doomen-edinburgh-photography

John Stezaker

Deutsche Börse photography

prizewinner 2012

– in pictures

Worcester-born photographer

and artist John Stezaker

has been awarded the £30,000

Deutsche Börse photography prize

in a ceremony at the Photographers' Gallery

in London.

The award is given

to a practitioner of any nationality

for a significant contribution

to the medium of photography,

and Stezaker was selected

for his surrealist collages

using found photographs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/sep/03/
john-stezaker-deutsche-borse-prize-pictures#/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
john-stezaker 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/sep/03/
john-stezaker-deutsche-borse-prize-pictures#/

Gideon Mendel    SA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/29/
gideon-mendel-best-photograph-
mother-carries-hiv-infected-son

Photographer Michael Kerstgens

records the miners' strike in Britain    1984

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/07/
coal-not-dole-the-miners-strike-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/07/
coal-not-dole-michael-kerstgens-miners-strike-photographs

Daniel Meadows    UK

John Payne, with pigeon Chequer

and brothers Michael and Kalvin White, Portsmouth, 1974

‘In April 1974 I began an experiment with audio.

People would know that I was recording.’

Meadows remembers

sewing a tape recorder into an old tweed jacket

so that he could photograph while also capturing audio

Photograph: Daniel Meadows

Magical history tour:

all aboard the bus around 1970s Britain – in pictures

When Daniel Meadows set off around the country

on a rickety doubledecker bus

he met fisherman, circus troupes and tattooists.

His work remains relevant 50 years on

G

Tue 10 Oct 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/10/
magical-history-tour-all-aboard-the-bus-around-1970s-britain-
in-pictures-daniel-meadows - Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/10/
magical-history-tour-all-aboard-the-bus-around-1970s-britain-
in-pictures-daniel-meadows - Guardian picture gallery

Brian Aris    UK

‘This image of mourners at a funeral in Belfast

remains to this day one of my favourite images

and one that always takes me back to the terrible times

the people of Northern Ireland suffered in the early 70s’

Photograph: Brian Aris

From the Troubles to glam rock:

through the eyes of Brian Aris – in pictures

The British photographer started off covering civil unrest

and ended up shooting the Queen

– a new exhibition takes you on the wild ride

G

Thu 22 Jun 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jun/22/
from-the-troubles-to-glam-rock-through-the-eyes-of-brian-aris-in-pictures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Brian_Aris

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/28/
rare-and-raw-never-before-seen-rolling-stones-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jun/22/
from-the-troubles-to-glam-rock-
through-the-eyes-of-brian-aris-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Henry Horenstein    USA

From stock car racing

to country music stars,

the US photographer

is one of the great documenters

of Americana.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/17/
a-night-at-the-races-out-on-the-speedway-in-pictures-
henry-horenstein - Guardian picture gallery

Hugh Holland    USA

Skating in a backyard pool,

San Francisco peninsula, 1977.

Silver Skaters:

the rise of skateboarding in California – in pictures

Legendary skateboard photographer Hugh Holland

has published a book of previously unseen images

capturing the growth of the skateboarding craze in California.

From car ramps to empty pools,

Silver Skaters Seventies published by Abrams & Chronicle Books

captures the exhilarating rise of skate culture

G

Sun 20 Oct 2019    16.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/20/
silver-skaters-the-rise-of-skateboarding-in-california-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/20/
silver-skaters-the-rise-of-skateboarding-in-california-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Chris Lermanis    Australia

A man walking the streets of Fitzroy.

Looking back at Melbourne in the 60s and 70s – in pictures

Chris Lermanis is a keen amateur photographer

who spent his weekends in the late 1960s and early 1970s

photographing around the inner Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy,

Carlton and Collingwood

with his Pentax SV camera and 50mm lens.

He hand-processed the black and white films at home

and made prints in the bathroom or laundry,

which was temporarily converted into a darkroom.

During this time

the houses and factories were being demolished

and the new housing commission towers built.

Lermanis recently started looking at his old prints

and now has a book project planned.

G

Sat 9 Mar 2024    00.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/09/
melbourne-historical-photos-1960s-1970s-pentax-sv-photography-shots

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/09/
melbourne-historical-photos-1960s-1970s-pentax-sv-photography-shots
- Guardian picture gallery

Mike Smith    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/10/
magic-and-mischief-in-70s-boston-mike-smith-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Kwame Brathwaite    USA

photographer

who captured the beauty in blackness

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/
t-magazine/kwame-brathwaite-photographer.html

John Myers    UK

Brick Worker, 1983

‘This was taken on Valentine’s Day in 1983.

The low drying shed was cold,

almost deserted and lit by a single electric light.

I took two shots of the brick worker.

Nothing was added or moved.

Her working process is encapsulated

in a “mountain” of clay with finger marks,

a flattened slab about to be inserted in the mould

and the scraper to clean the waste clay away’

Invisible TVs and a giraffe called Don:

extraordinary Midlands scenes – in pictures

John Myers captures quietly ordinary images of people, places

– and sometimes animals –

often taken within walking distance of his Stourbridge home

G

Tue 20 Apr 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/apr/20/
john-myers-photographs-midlands-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/apr/20/
john-myers-photographs-midlands-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/12/
the-portraits-by-john-myers-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

 Janet Mendelsohn    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/apr/17/
the-ghost-streets-of-1960s-birmingham-in-pictures-
janet-mendelsohn-richard-p-rogers - Guardian picture gallery

 Richard P. Rogers    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/apr/17/
the-ghost-streets-of-1960s-birmingham-in-pictures-
janet-mendelsohn-richard-p-rogers - Guardian picture gallery

 

Frederick Wilfred's

London Photographs    1957-1962

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/may/22/
frederick-wilfred-london-photographs-
pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Ted Soqui    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2012/may/01/
rodney-king-race-riots-gallery - Guardian picture gallery

Lynsey Addario    USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/10/19/
765790524/photos-
why-lynsey-addario-has-spent-10-years-covering-maternal-mortality

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/21/
photographer-lynsey-addario-best-shot 

Dennis Morris    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
dennis-morris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Dennis_Morris_(photographer)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2024/feb/16/
bob-marley-by-dennis-morris-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/25/
dennis-morris-growing-up-black-photography

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/dec/12/
gregory-isaacs-obituary-by-dennis-morris

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/10/
marianne-faithfull-photograph-dennis-morris

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/jun/04/
guardiansocietysupplement1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/1999/nov/18/
artsfeatures

Cindy Sherman    USA

Cindy Sherman

is a photographer who poses

as larger-than-life characters

in self-portraits.

Over the course of her 35-year career,

she has transformed herself

into hundreds of different personas:

the movie star, the valley girl,

the angry housewife,

the frustrated socialite,

the Renaissance courtesan,

the menacing clown,

even the Roman god Bacchus.

Some are closely cropped images;

in others she is set

against a backdrop that,

as Ms. Sherman describes it,

“are clues that tell a story.”

Updated: Feb. 16, 2012
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/cindy_sherman/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
cindy-sherman  

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/
arts/design/cindy-sherman-at-museum-of-modern-art.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/
arts/design/moma-to-showcase-cindy-shermans-new-and-old-characters.html

Bob Gruen

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/
fashion/bob-gruen-captures-the-world-of-rock-in-photos.html

Donna Ferrato    USA

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/
showcase-50/ 

Fred R. Conrad

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/
assignment-10/

Neal Boenzi    USA

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/
a-street-photographers-nimble-tread-2/ 

Suzanne De Chillo

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/
music-in-the-face-of-death/

Matt Black    USA

https://www.mattblack.com/

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/27/
581269054/documenting-the-geography-of-poverty-in-the-u-s
- NPR podcast with transcript

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/
people_of_clouds.html

Stephen Wright

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/12/
photographer-stephen-wright-best-shot

Taryn Simon    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
taryn-simon 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/22/
taryn-simon-tate-modern-interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/may/22/
taryn-simon-photography

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/
behind-49/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/07/30/
magazine/20100801-taryn-simon-contraband.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/
style/tmagazine/25toriginals.html

20th, 21st century     USA    Jim Goldberg

20th, 21st century    Canada    Larry Towell

Valérie Anex photographs    Ireland, Switzerland

In Ireland,

Ghosts of Towns That Never Were / Ghost Estates

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/
in-ireland-ghosts-of-towns-that-never-were/

Portraits From a Job-Starved City 2011

Photographs by ALEC SOTH

Interviews by MICHAEL CATANO

Few American cities have suffered

as acutely as Rockford, Ill.,

where unemployment reached nearly 16 percent

last summer [ 2010 summer ].

A photographic tour (with audio interviews)

through its stores, factories and offices.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/23/magazine/rockford.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/23/
magazine/rockford.html

Wormwood Scrubs

photographed by Bettina von Kameke

Photographer Bettina von Kameke

spent time inside Wormwood Scrubs prison,

north-west London,

observing inmates' daily rituals.

Her aim was to present

the human aspects of their everyday routine,

common to all human life,

both outside and inside the prison.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2011/feb/15/
wormwood-scrubs-bettina-von-kameke-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2011/feb/15/
wormwood-scrubs-bettina-von-kameke-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Alain Le Garsmeur    France

The funeral in August 1976 of three children killed

when a car driven by an IRA volunteer, Danny Lennon,

ploughed into them after having been shot

by the British army.

The protests at these killings

started the first peace process in Northern Ireland.

Le Garsmeur’s work covered British army operations,

riots, protests and checkpoints,

as well as the everyday lives

of Protestant and Catholic communities

Photograph: Alain le Garsmeur

From Belfast to the Karakoram mountains:

the photography of Alain Le Garsmeur – in pictures

An exhibition of the work of Alain le Garsmeur

forms part of this year’s Belfast Photo festival.

Le Garsmeur’s documentary images captured

both the extraordinary and the mundane

in locations as varied as Belfast,

New York, Beijing and Moscow.

His global reputation and range of subjects make him

one of the most important photojournalists of his era.

Alain Le Garsmeur:

Retrospective, presented by Belfast Exposed,

is at Gallery 1 until 22 July 2023

G

Fri 9 Jun 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jun/09/
belfast-karakoram-mountains-photography-
alain-le-garsmeur - Guardian picturs gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jun/09/
belfast-karakoram-mountains-photography-
alain-le-garsmeur - Guardian picture gallery

American poverty

Photographs by Chang W. Lee    USA

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2002/09/29/us/
20020929_POVERTY_FEATURE.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/
national/29POVE.html

Darcy Padilla

Darcy Padilla's award-winning 18-year project

documents the life and death of one woman,

capturing in miniature the plight

of America's 'permanent poor'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/25/
photography-humanitarian-darcy-padilla-julie-baird  

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/25/
photography-humanitarian-darcy-padilla-julie-baird 

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's

extraordinary photographs

documenting

the dramatic decline of Detroit

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/
photography-detroit

Chester Higgins    USA

“Early Morning Coffee, Harlem,” 1974.

Photograph: Chester Higgins

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/31/
1089294489/chester-higgins-camera-brings-a-360-degree-view-to-black-life

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/
photo-booth/chester-higginss-life-in-pictures - August 27, 2021

Dawoud Bey    USA

DaFour Teenagers After Church Service,

Syracuse, NY, 1985

In 1985,

Bey had a residency at Light Work in Syracuse, New York.

Residencies and the projects that grew out of them

would become key aspects of his career,

allowing him to focus on one place or organisation

and incorporate that specificity into his work

The heart of Harlem:

Dawoud Bey’s innovative street photography – in pictures

A career retrospective at the Whitney shows

how Bey’s work gave black subjects in New York

a space to assert themselves and their presence in the world

G

Wed 2 Jun 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/02/
dawoud-bey-street-photography-harlem-new-york

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/02/
dawoud-bey-street-photography-harlem-new-york

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/
barack-obama-photo-dawoud-bey/

Tricia Porter    UK

A young woman in Ali’s News

Photograph: Tricia Porter

Toxteth then and now: photographs of a bygone Liverpool

When Tricia Porter

moved to the notorious Liverpool 8 area in 1974,

she was warned to carry a cosh

– but emerged with a vivid portrait of a tight-knit community.

Forty years on, she revisited the area

G

19 May 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/19/
toxteth-then-now-tricia-porter-photographs-liverpool

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/19/
toxteth-then-now-tricia-porter-photographs-liverpool

Burk Uzzle    USA

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/
burk-uzzles-american-puzzle/

Larry Racioppo    USA

In 1989, Larry Racioppo

got his first regular job in years:

taking pictures showing

New York City at its worst.

He spent his days stepping through

dank basement crack dens

and apartments that were

as burned-out as their inhabitants.

On rooftops, spent shell casings

littered the tar like fallen leaves.

At street level, entire neighborhoods

had been reduced to empty lots.

Mr. Racioppo

was a carpenter- turned-photographer

who knew his way around construction,

a camera and the city,

knowledge that served him well

during a 22-year career as photographer

for the city’s Department

of Housing Preservation and Development.

It was his job to show how bad things were

at a time when Mayor Edward I. Koch

had shepherded an unprecedented and ambitious plan

to renovate the city’s huge portfolio

of dilapidated buildings seized from bankrupt,

indifferent or criminally negligent landlords.

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/
building-an-archive-from-the-rubble/ 

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/
building-an-archive-from-the-rubble/

Larry Clark    USA

Before he was a controversial film-maker,

Larry Clark was a controversial photographer,

recording his teenage life of drugs and addiction

in Tulsa (1971) and Teenage Lust (1983).

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/05/
teenage-lust-larry-clarks-most-controversial-photography-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/film/
larry-clark 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/05/
larry-clark-tulsa-teenage-lust-photography-controversy

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/05/
teenage-lust-larry-clarks-most-controversial-photography-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/feb/13/
larry-clark-photography-teenage-rampage

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/arts/design/25john.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jul/04/
filmcensorship.news 

Jeffrey Stockbridge 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/sep/16/
taylor-wessing-photography-portrait

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/
magazine/11RUNNERSUP.html

Keith Pattison

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/gallery/2010/sep/12/
miners-strike-1984-85-david-peace

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/12/
david-peace-miners-strike

Harold Chapman

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2010/aug/02/
harold-chapman-my-best-shot

Chris Levine

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2010/apr/14/
photograph-queen-chris-levine

Gered Mankowitz

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2009/dec/23/
photography-jimi-hendrix

Willie Christie

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2009/dec/16/
willie-christie-rolling-stones-mick-jagger

Murdo Macleod

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/
murdomacleod 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/28/
alan-rusbridger-on-murdo-macleod

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/aug/28/
photography-cultural-trips

Sally Mann    USA

Alastair Thain    UK

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07788/
alastair-thain

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jan/07/
photography

Ian Beesley    UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/16/
ian-beesley-best-photograph

Richard Young    UK

society photographer,

master of the celebrity snapshot

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/nov/24/
richard-young-photographer

Nancy "Nan" Goldin    USA

Martin Parr    UK

David Gonzalez

Revisiting the South Bronx,

35 Millimeters at a Time - 1979

https://www.nytimes.com/by/
david-gonzalez

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/
nyregion/23bronx.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/19/
nyregion/bronx_gonzalez/index.html#

Christopher Morris    USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Christopher_Morris_(photographer)

David Hurn    UK

https://pro.magnumphotos.com/
C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZZSS  

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/
the-60s-in-and-out-of-the-limelight/

Kris Allan

documentary photographer

https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2008/sep/29/
mentalhealth.photography

Lee Friedlander    USA

Elliott Erwitt    USA

Mark Steinmetz    USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/apr/27/
mark-steinmetz-american-south-photography-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Chris Killip    Isle of Man, UK