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People were arguing about what "real photography" was more than a century before anyone had heard of an Instagram filter, as highlighted by this exhibition on the Pictorialism movement

By Tom May Published

NEWS Light and Magic at London's Tate Modern traces Pictorialism's rise across multiple continents, from the 1880s to the 1960s

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August Sander: Bohemians (Willy Bongard and Gottfried Brockmann), 1922-1925
Taken from the last years of Imperial Germany, and through the Weimar Republic into the Nazi era, these rarely seen images by pioneering portrait photographer August Sander highlight just how wide his range was

By Tom May Published

A new exhibition marking the photographer's 150th anniversary digs into the lesser-known corners of his archive

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A black and white photograph taken through a car window of a young woman leaning out, her hand raised to her hair, as other passengers sit behind her.
Photographer Henry Wessel modified his camera so he could shoot one-handed through the windshield while driving on his daily commute – and according to him, "A glance was enough"

By Tom May Published

A new exhibition in New York revisits the portfolio Henry Wessel built traffic with one hand on the wheel

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A colour photograph of a weathered green child's tricycle parked on a driveway in front of a suburban house.
William Eggleston's photographs were once voted the most hated of the year – but this new retrospective proves just how wrong critics can be

By Tom May Published

News The London exhibition marks 50 years since critics called Eggleston's color photographs "banal" and "boring"

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Square [hotos of bright red caravan and of a green Art Deco library building
How a photographer who shoots caravans and snooker clubs landed praise from Robert Plant – and an exhibition inside a heritage museum

By Tom May Published

NEWS Tom Hicks' photos of Black Country signage and shopfronts attracted unlikely support from a Led Zeppelin legend

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A man in a long coat stands alone at a street corner beside a fire hydrant, facing a row of cinema marquees advertising old films.
Baldwin Lee waited until the streets of New York had emptied of people, then took these photos with a 4x5 view camera that have sat unseen for 47 years

By Tom May Published

NEWS A new exhibition reveals how, in the 1970s, the Chinese-American photographer used a slow, tripod-bound camera to shoot the Big Apple at its quietest moments

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The Faces of Ground Zero exhibited inside New York's Grand Central Station in 2002
“You cannot look away from the hurt, the stress, the exhaustion, the bravery, and the pride.” Joe McNally captured life-sized Polaroids of 9/11 first responders on a camera the size of a small garage. 25 years later, he revisits the story

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

9/11 Photographer Joe McNally will speak on the life-sized Polaroid series, the Faces of Ground Zero, ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11

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The world's first photograph by Joseph Niepce. Taken from a window of his Le Gras estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France.
The first-ever photograph is returning home to France for first time in 200 years

By Chris George Published

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's historic eight-hour exposure heads to Burgundy to join in the French celebrations for the 200th anniversary of photography

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Black-and-white self-portrait with an Agifold camera, on top of a stack of books obscuring the photographer's face, pointing at a mirror
Have you heard of the “Wellieflex” – a pinhole camera made from a rain boot? This exhibition delves into history of children as photographers, some using homemade cameras

By Alan Palazon Published

News Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers explores how photography went from an elite pastime to an accessible and, sometimes, even a DIY hobby for youngsters

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Mital Patel spent years photographing the two remaining northern white rhinos on Earth. Yet his work isn't just about animals; it tells us a lot about humans, too

By Tom May Published

NEWS A new online exhibition teams a wildlife extinction story with a study of the people guarding it.

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