July 2, 2021

Chinese dissident artist” is a frequent descriptor used by the art press to define Ai Weiwei, but it’s a box ...

October 25, 2020

In a 2002 Interview, Carl Reiner Revealed Trade Secrets...

February 25, 2020

Michael Kurcfeld visits Frieze LA 2020....

August 26, 2019

Arles loves photographers and photographers love Arles. Every July, for exactly a half century, this enchanted, photogenic town — once an outpost ...

July 25, 2019

The most asked question at any cornucopic public art show is: “What did you like?” We saw no reason not to ...

June 5, 2019

This year’s prestigious Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition, its 58th, has been curated by Ralph Rugoff, an American art critic who became director of London’s Hayward Gallery....

September 12, 2017

Michael Kurcfeld on Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz, whose work will be featured in the groundbreaking exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 at the Hammer Museum....

June 1, 2017

Michael Kurcfeld spoke to Christine Macel, the curator of the 57th Venice Biennale....

February 22, 2017

Andres Serrano grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, without a father, and raised by a hard-working mother subject to psychotic episodes that ...

January 20, 2017

When TIME Magazine controversially chose Donald Trump to be its “Person of the Year” at the end of 2016, the photographer ...

November 24, 2016

An exclusive interview with singer-songwriter Donovan (Maryhill, Scotland, 1949). Donovan Leitch spoke with LARB earlier this year, at a stop on ...

October 25, 2016

A retrospective on photographs of Los Angeles taken by Anthony Hernandez....

September 4, 2016

Photographer Don McCullin's pictures from hell. ...

August 20, 2016

Mariana Cook discusses a career spent photographing artists, writers, scientists, and actors....

July 9, 2016

ALEXEY TITARENKO grew up in Cold War-era Leningrad (née and once again St. Petersburg), in a typically small, cramped apartment. ...

June 25, 2016

Tanya Marcuse discusses series “Fruitless,” “Fallen” and “Woven” in this installment of "Photographer's Spotlight."...

June 2, 2016

THE CLOSEST to a Cinderella real-estate tale in Los Angeles has been the renaissance that is unfolding in its historic downtown ...

May 12, 2016

John Chiara has made a career of revealing in a wholly new manner places that have been captured endlessly in paintings ...

May 3, 2016

Nick Brandt committed to a 16-year odyssey of capturing the vanishing herds that roam the 2-million-acre Amboseli ecosystem, which straddles Kenya and Tanzania. When viewed at the daunting scale intended, these portraits of sentient beings inspire a visceral appreciation of the megafauna that few other photographers have achieved....

March 30, 2016

Most photographers are passive, often neutral observers. Stanislas Guigui fully inhabits the ferocious world he shoots, completely caught in its turbulence. ...

March 22, 2016

For many, adolescence is a fraught, even harrowing chapter of life, a shaky bridge into adulthood that is marked by abortive ...

March 12, 2016

A profile of the Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen, who spent 7 years living with and photographing Roma people around the world....

March 5, 2016

nbsp; Swapan Parekh discusses his own work. Kishor Parekh (1930–1982) transformed modern photojournalism in India by demanding greater status for ...

February 24, 2016

Interviewing Catherine Opie on her two new LA exhibits, "Portraits" and "700 Nimes Road", at the Hammer Museum and MOCA Pacific Design Center, respectively....

February 14, 2016

Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink devises high-concept projects like Table of Power, a series that explores the symbology of corporate power....

February 5, 2016

Gupta's series 'Angst' focuses on Calcutta’s prostitutes, junkies, lepers, and the insane, whom he befriended enough to gain acceptance and collaboration....

January 26, 2016

An interview with Agnès Varda for her exhibition 'Varda/Cuba" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris....

January 16, 2016

An interview with Croatian photographer Frank Horvat at the 2015 Paris Photo art fair....

January 9, 2016

An interview with India’s most eminent living photographer at the 2015 Delhi Photo Festival...

December 21, 2015

An interview with globe-trotting photographer Bruno Barbey at the 2015 Paris Photo Art Fair....

December 11, 2015

Interview with the up and coming Senegalese photographer from his recent showing of 'The Studio of the Vanities' at Paris Photo 2015....

November 30, 2015

An interview with Richard Learoyd on the occasion of the publication of Day for Night (Aperture), the most comprehensive collection of his images to date....

November 13, 2015

One of the pillars of photography, as with painting, is landscape. Contained in its usually horizontal frame is a psychology of ...

November 2, 2015

Photo highlights from the 2015 Frieze London Art Fair include works by David Bailey, Nan Goldin, Annie Leibovitz, Catherine Opie, Ed Ruscha, and many more....

October 16, 2015

An interview with renowned celebrity photographer Greg Gorman, whose new book 'Outside the Studio' features a collection of street photography in Asia....

October 9, 2015

nbsp; In 2012, a Swiss foundation commissioned two award-winning Magnum photojournalists to document the Brazzaville (formerly French) Congo — as distinct from ...

October 2, 2015

Mick Rock shares his favorite memories and photographs from his time as David Bowie's official photographer in the early seventies....

September 25, 2015

The first thing one notices about the photographs of Miles Aldridge is their giddy, electric color — italicizing a radiant world of ...

September 11, 2015

As a longtime photojournalist, Paris-based Ambroise Tézenas believes his role is to bear witness and not make judgments — even when ...

September 4, 2015

Julie Blackmon takes fictional and auto-biographical portraits inspired by her large, raucous family growing up, and her recent experience of motherhood....

August 28, 2015

Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti spent three years photographing the world's tax havens for their latest project, "The Heavens."...

August 21, 2015

Photographer Alice Wielinga's photomontages highlight the difference between North Korean propaganda images and the reality on the ground....

August 14, 2015

Photographer Spotlight interview Thierry Bouët, who takes pictures of unusual auction items together with their owners....

August 6, 2015

nbsp; Anyone who has traveled in Europe has marveled at its abundance of ornate churches, from Romanesque and Gothic to Renaissance ...

July 31, 2015

Interview with curator Virginia Heckert about the Getty's new exhibit, 'Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.'...

July 23, 2015

Photographer Spotlight features an interview with photomontage pioneer Jerry Uelsmann....

July 6, 2015

Photographer Spotlight presents an interview with highly acclaimed large-format photographer Richard Misrach....

June 19, 2015

nbsp; Maggie Taylor is a scavenger. She rummages through the dustbin of photographic history — not that of museums and scholarly tomes ...

June 15, 2015

An interview with Okwui Enwezor, appointed curator of the 2015 Venice Biennale and the first African-born curator in the exhibition's history....

June 12, 2015

Eamonn Doyle is a Dublin-based street photographer who employs flat angles and hunched, elderly subjects to breathe new life into the street genre....

April 23, 2015

A profile of Palestinian photographer Raed Bawayah for the LA Review of Books' Photographer Spotlight series....

April 9, 2015

nbsp; COMIC-BOOK HEROES have all but devoured summer cinema, and have become so pervasive in our diluted, infantilized culture that actors ...

March 26, 2015

Neil Selkirk, best known for his candid celebrity portraits, just opened an exhibition titled Certain Women, a series of portraits focusing on mothers....

March 5, 2015

Photographer Spotlight features conceptual and mixed media photographer Brea Souders....

February 26, 2015

Lois Conner has amassed a profound body of work, highlighted by rich panoramic photos of China that read like Chinese scrolls....

February 5, 2015

Interview with world-renowned Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil....

January 22, 2015

When Ken Schles, fresh out of school, moved to the Lower East Side of New York in 1978, it was a ...

January 9, 2015

Interview with Joel Meyerowitz on his life's work filmed at the 2014 Paris Photo festival....

December 26, 2014

Roger Ballen discusses his latest series, Asylum of the Birds, in this interview from Paris Photo 2014....

December 18, 2014

Nicholas Vreeland is the grandson of fashion editor Diana Vreeland, an ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk, and a highly accomplished photographer....

December 12, 2014

Our interview series from the 2014 Paris Photo festival continues with an interview with photographer David LaChapelle....

December 5, 2014

Our interview series from the 2014 Paris Photo festival continues with an interview with acclaimed Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf....

November 28, 2014

An interview series from the 2014 Paris Photo festival kicks off with an interview with world-renowned photographer Martin Schoeller....

November 14, 2014

Interview with legendary 60's music photographer Guy Webster, whose new book, Big Shots: Rock Legends and Hollywood Icons, was released in October....

November 7, 2014

Highlights and interviews from the 2014 Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC) in Paris....

October 31, 2014

Highlights and interviews focusing on the Masters photographers at the 2014 Frieze Art Fair in London....

October 16, 2014

Interview with photographer Stephen Wilkes, whose latest work features epic panoramas that fuse day and night....

October 2, 2014

Interview with acclaimed photographer Matthew Pillsbury ahead of his "Tokyo" exhibition in New York City....

September 10, 2014

Interview with German-Brazilian photographer Mona Kuhn, whose latest show Acido Dorado explores the natural body in an ethereal desert landscape....

August 28, 2014

Photographer Murray Garrett shares stories from his very exclusive and prolific career as a Hollywood photographer in the 1950's and 60's....

August 18, 2014

New York-based married duo Formento & Formento have successfully exported their commercial skills to "fine art" photography....

July 31, 2014

Many photographers use images to get under the skin of reality and touch the more elusive corners of human experience. For ...

June 19, 2014

It began with a midlife crisis, 20 years ago. At 39, German photojournalist Michael Wolf had become bored with working for ...

May 22, 2014

Photographer Spotlight features the photography of the late Dennis Hopper, featuring his daughter, Marin Hopper....

May 9, 2014

Photographer Tom Hunter found beauty and trenchant political insight in his own backyard, the once ravaged East London neighborhood of Hackney....

April 25, 2014

As a student some 40 years ago Edward Burtynsky was given an assignment to show "evidence of Man." He took the ...

April 17, 2014

Valerie Belin explores the ambiguity of lifelike objects and tableaux that are real in one sense and unreal in another....

April 10, 2014

Interview with acclaimed arctic photographer Sebastian Copeland....

April 3, 2014

Photographer Karen Knorr's series India Song is a playful dialogue with the tropes of animal and travel photography and questions of feminine subjectivity....

April 1, 2014

Photo: "Yuki", 2005. Jeff Cowen, courtesy Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Köln & New York Jeff Cowen is an ...

April 1, 2014

JIMMY NELSON began his career as a photographer with a year-long walk across Tibet in 1987, at the age of 20. ...

March 27, 2014

One of England's most famous photographers, David Bailey, discusses his travels in India and his 2012 book Delhi Dilemma....

July 24, 2012

Michael Kurcfeld talks to Robert Crumb on the occasion of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris retrospective ...