Critique
Critique is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
Recolouring the past
At a time when image falsification is a source of concern, the digital colourisation of documentary…
Instant object of desire
A Polaroid photo’s aura of ephemeral uniqueness lies in its small white frame and supercharged surface.…
Whiteness made strange
A brave, if flawed book of artists’ photographs addresses racism through the lens of white privilege.…
Scalpel sharp
A UK retrospective examines the explosive photomontages of feminist artist Linder, from the shock of her…
Among the spirits
Nadav Kander’s poetic and mysterious portraits of celebrities steal the limelight in his new book The…
Four-wheeled dreams
A new V&A book of photographs of cars fails to acknowledge the bigger picture. Photo Critique by Rick…
Traces of longing
For Belgian collagist Katrien De Blauwer, making work is both an obsession and an act of therapy. By Rick…
Defiance and revelation
A new book of Peter Kennard’s work adds context and background detail to his angry, radical…
Banquet of images
For its 50th anniversary, the Arles festival stages a
generous array of contemporary and historical…
Nature in captivity
Luigi Ghirri’s rigorously composed pictures of plants outside people’s homes exercise a banal…