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A young woman peers over a newspaper, another smokes with a pair of binoculars in her hand, and a third stands silhouetted behind a lace curtain. These unseen photos capture what it felt like to be young and female in 1970s America

By Tom May Published

Sherrie Nickol's earliest photographs, shot in the late 1970s and unseen for nearly 50 years, have been collected in a new book

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Images from Kodak Colorama Archive
A family packs up a station wagon, water skiers race towards the lens, and astronauts walk on the Moon: these giant Kodak photos once lit up Grand Central Terminal and revisiting them today is a strange and unsettling experience

By Tom May Published

Book A new two-volume book from Gestalten revisits Kodak’s Colorama, the 18m-wide backlit photographs that dominated Grand Central Station for 40 years.

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A lone cyclist beneath a concrete cathedral, a figure dwarfed by sweeping white curves and pigeons scattering across a vast tiled wall: Mark Fearnley's street photography captures the loneliness of the modern city

By Tom May Published

Book The former painter uses geometry, light and shadow to highlight solitary figures in vast urban spaces

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An old man with a long white beard and wild hair signs a parchment with a quill, while a wide-eyed figure in a skullcap leans in beside him, one clawed hand resting on the table next to an hourglass
Once presumed lost forever, these eerie photos show us all what horror movies were like 100 years ago

By Tom May Published

Once thought to be lost forever, these behind-the-scenes images reveal how German film director F. W. Murnau conjured demons, plagues and giants in 1926

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A busy street corner seen through the glass of a bus shelter, its reflections layering a smiling woman in a brown hat, a man in a flat cap and a giant black-and-white advertisement face over a mural
A woman laughs behind glass, rainbows arc through a sprinkler and a marching band waits by the sea: Alex Webb’s camera photographs an America that's busy, bright and connected

By Tom May Published

Book Alex Webb’s spent more than a decade crossing 40 US cities. His new book showcase photography inspired by the blues

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A group of laughing women in headscarves, stained aprons and boots link arms and wave as they march along a cobbled street with tram tracks, while a police officer watches from behind
A policeman directs traffic from a metal bin, Harrow boys queue for sweets in straw boaters, and men on stilts tend the Kent hops: new photo book opens a fascinating window on 1930s Britain

By Tom May Published

NEWS This 616-page hardback gathers together hundreds of archive photographs, many never seen before, of a nation caught between tradition and modernity.

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At the 1986 Wackersdorf anti-nuclear protest, a shirtless man raises his arm mid-shout as a couple embrace beside him, a dark storm-clouded sky filling the background.
German photographer Wolfgang Zurborn spent lockdown scanning his pictures of crowds, and learned something profound about finding order inside chaos

By Tom May Published

BOOKS Crowds is a new book gathering together four decades of dense, color-saturated street photography

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“This family was in a bunker. When the Americans threw a grenade in a bunker, they would shout ‘fire in thehole!’ before there was an enormous explosion. I don’t know how these people got out alive. I was just tryingto show how you’d feel if that was your family—so badly shocked and threatened at the end of it all”
“I want my picture to hurt you.” Now 90, renowned Vietnam War photographer Don McCullin shares why he wants to create photos to lose sleep over – and why he hates his most famous photograph

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

BOOKS Ahead of his final book – and 91st birthday – Don McCullin recounts stories of working as a war photographer through decades of global conflict

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Two clowns stand talking on a night-time pavement outside a shuttered baby goods shop, lit by the shop's glowing window display.
French photographer Nicolas Rachline transforms deserted streets into film noir, elevates mood over moment, and demonstrates that every picture doesn't actually need to tell a story

By Tom May Published

This music video producer turned photographer presents a decade of nocturnal, cinematic street imagery in his debut book

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Interior of Veselka diner, New York.
What does a city lose when its ‘ordinary’ places disappear? The photography couple's “race against time” to document New York’s mom-and-pop diners

By Alan Palazon Published

Photojournalists James and Karla Murray’s new book, Counter Culture: New York City’s Greatest Diners and Luncheonettes, celebrates the timeless history of these “mom-and-pop” restaurants – community pillars facing increasing uncertainty amid gentrification and shifting consumerism

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