Art and design books
Phil Baines obituary
Graphic designer whose distinctive typographic work graced Penguin book covers, museum signage and London monuments
Adrian Shaughnessy
12, Mar, 2024 @3:46 PM
The big picture: Christer Strömholm’s lovers in a Paris bar, 1960
The Swedish photographer was a fixture of Parisian cafe society, capturing intimate moments at all-night hangouts
Tim Adams
03, Mar, 2024 @7:00 AM
Charlotte Benton obituary
Co-creator of an Open University course that had a profound effect on the study of design history in Britain
Tanya Harrod
23, Feb, 2024 @4:25 PM
The big picture: teenage girls at play in east London
British photographer Suki Dhanda explored young Muslims developing their own identities in the early days after 9/11
Tim Adams
18, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM
‘They ask only not to be forgotten’: Barry Lewis’s heartbreaking portraits of the Soviet Union’s gulag survivors
Taken in 1991, during the glasnost era, these extraordinary photographs are a powerful reminder of one of the darkest periods in Soviet history
Neal Ascherson
11, Feb, 2024 @12:00 PM
‘An enigma, an artist who walked to his own beat’: the everyday sublime of photographer Saul Leiter
The late American photographer, who quietly captured small, luminous details of life on the streets of New York, is celebrated in the biggest UK show of his work
Sean O’Hagan
04, Feb, 2024 @11:00 AM
The big picture: Mark Power’s painterly portrait of a rundown Baltimore street
Part of his ongoing survey of modern American life, the British photographer’s striking image has echoes of Vermeer
Tim Adams
04, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM
The big picture: desperate lives in Stéphane Duroy’s 1980s Paris
The French photographer’s shot of Senegalese immigrants making a phone call is from his series capturing the trials of everyday existence in a derelict area
Tim Adams
28, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street
Snow, a bowler hat and an old-fashioned HMV storefront combine to create a yearning for the past in street photographer Stephen Leslie’s 2018 shot
Tim Adams
14, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
The big picture: Sage Sohier capturing playfulness in 1980s America
The photographer’s early work, rediscovered in lockdown, has a quickened intensity and of-the-moment thrill
Tim Adams
07, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
Josef Koudelka: Next by Melissa Harris review – in praise of a wandering star
A visual biography of the restless and revered Czech photographer reveals his affinity with the Roma people and his eye for haunting, unforgiving landscapes
Sean O’Hagan
02, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
Nonfiction to look out for in 2024
From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next year
Rachel Cooke
01, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
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