Mr. Whiskets writes, "My posts tend to be rather long (which I think is a good thing) but there are times when I'd simply like to be brief and spotlight some books I feel I've been neglecting. There are many fine titles that I think are interesting and worth your notice but when I sit [...]

Mr. Whiskets writes, "Most artists need to find ways of paying the bills and this usually involves stepping outside of their immediate interests. Unless, of course, they were born into wealth and the day to day search for money is unnecessary. I have the notion that good art doesn't naturally spring from that environment but [...]

NIKO KOPPEL writes, "BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blonde named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city. Influenced by the Modernist documentarian André Kertész, with references to the hard-edged, black-and-white works of Weegee [...]

John Matthews invites you to his flat to explore images of Mysteries of the Heath. Photography exhibition and print sale Friday 14 March - 7pm until 9.30pm (first night opening) Saturday 15 March - 11am until 6pm Friday 28 March - 7pm until 9.30pm Saturday 29 March - 11am until 6pm When I want to [...]

Mr. Whiskets writes, "Lee Friedlander is often cited as America's most important living photographer but undoubtedly he is its most prolific. Lee has created substantial bodies of work in every genre of photography and succeeded in making each his own. Self portraits, nudes, social landscape, the American monuments, labor, technology, music, the family album, architecture, [...]

Mr. Whiskets writes, "It is rare for a photographer that came of age in the 1960's and 70's to not cite Robert Frank's The Americans and Walker Evans' American Photographs as the two books that inspired them to take up a camera and explore the world. It is lore that gets repeated so often it [...]

Don't miss the story of photography starting next week on BBC4, Thursday October 25 at 9pm. "In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of [...]

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