“Along with half a dozen other photographers of his generation, Joel Meyerowitz is responsible for the re-evaluation of color photography as a significant form of art,” says Giles Huxley-Parlour, the director of London’s Beetles+Huxley Gallery, which opens a show focused on the photographer’s influential street photography this week.
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10 Classic Photographs — Reinterpreted Entirely in Play-Doh
The artist Eleanor Macnair is an expert on the subject of Play-Doh. Different colors have different textures, she explains: “The whites are usually very soft; the black’s quite oily.” The children who play with the modeling clay probably haven’t noticed, but Play-Doh is Macnair’s palette: She uses it to recreate her favorite images from the world of documentary photography, then captures her versions on camera.
Read MoreThe Photographer Who Captured People Driving in Los Angeles
“I wanted to do something that would have a little humor to it, and maybe a little riskiness,” the photographer Mike Mandel says. His new book, “People in Cars” out next month, does just that: It’s a collection of snapshots he took in 1970s California as a 19-year-old kid. “I grew up in Los Angeles and all of my experience of being in L.A. was about going from one place to the other by car,” he recalls.
Read MoreOld Photographs That Capture America at a Crossroads
"There’s an old French expression: The nearer the gallows, the clearer the truth,” says the documentary photographer Joel Sternfeld. “And my truth began with Walker Evans.” The iconic photographer of the Great Depression was a key inspiration on Sternfeld’s own influential 1987 photography book “American Prospects,” images from which go on display at London’s Beetles+Huxley gallery this week, alongside pictures that have never been shown before.
Read MoreInside London’s Exclusive Gentlemen’s Clubs
Knorr was particularly interested in the exclusion of women, who might be invited into the clubs as guests, but did not have access to every room. “This was the early ’80s and Thatcher was in power, yet she was not allowed to be a full member,” says the photographer.
Read MoreOddball British Rituals, in Playful Vintage Photos
A town mayor perched on a weighing scale; men dressed as clowns, dancing in the street; a crowd pursuing a rolling cheese down a hillside: At first glance, it’s not entirely clear what’s going on in this arresting series of early-70s images by the British photographer Homer Sykes, who spent seven years documenting obscure annual traditions taking place in communities around Britain.
Read MoreImages That Capture the Leisure — and Loneliness — of College
Sprawled on grass, floating down a river, or gazing blankly into the distance — all the subjects captured, unawares, in the photographer Paddy Summerfield’s new book “The Oxford Pictures” share a certain listlessness.
Read MoreA Collaboration Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Captured Over 20 Years
O’Keeffe was the subject of a “multi-part portrait” taken by Stieglitz: more than 300 photographs that he took between 1917 and 1937, several of which are on display here. Her poses are confident and deliberate, her head always held high; the portraits seem to capture not only her distinctive style — dark layers of clothing and swept-back hair — but an undeniable strength.
Read MoreIn London, a Celebration of All Things Punk
“Punk itself was about being on the cutting edge of anything new,” says the photographer Anita Corbin, whose portraits of women in the punk scene are on show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London this weekend. “So if you could shock people by wearing ripped tights and piercing your mouth — that would be a great statement to show the authorities that we were young and we weren’t too innocent anymore.”
Read MorePersonal (and Romantic) Vintage Pictures From a Legendary Photographer
“He was a real cockney, Bert, and he loved his jellied eels,” Sue Davies, the founding director of London’s The Photographers’ Gallery, says of the British photographer Bert Hardy — with whom she used to have regular lunches until his death in 1995. This Friday, her gallery will open a new exhibition and sale of some of Hardy’s favorite original prints, which were saved as keepsakes in his private collection and have never before been displayed.
Read MoreFive Things to Know About London’s Biggest Photography Bonanza
The second edition of Photo London, the international photography fair launched last year, takes place at Somerset House this week. For the event, 85 galleries — including the city’s biggest homegrown institutions, and dozens from across Europe, Asia and America — are exhibiting old and new photography for sale. The show also includes the Discovery section, which showcases work from new and emerging galleries — as well as 50 satellite events taking place around the capital. Below, a handful of highlights at this year’s fair.
Read MoreIn Dublin, a Photographer Turns His Lens on the Street
Until two years ago, the photographer Eamonn Doyle, whose new work “End.” goes on show at London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery this May, was not known for his photographs. After graduating art college in 1991, he founded a record label and a festival in his native Dublin, immersing himself in the local music scene for almost 20 years. It was after the economic crash in 2008 that, feeling burned out and in need of a change, he bought a camera and began to photograph life on the streets around his home.
Read MoreAt the Armory Show, Little-Seen Works by an Acclaimed Photographer
To say that the photographer Masahisa Fukase has new work at the Armory Show this week wouldn’t be entirely accurate: His series on display, “Hibi,” was created in the early 1990s. But soon after, the artist fell down the stairs of a bar in Tokyo, entering a coma that lasted until his death in 2012. As a result, his international reputation, which had flourished in the years before his accident, suddenly stalled; while he lay in a coma, his archive was held by a gallery in Japan, and it became near-impossible for European and American galleries and publishers to borrow original prints. “Hibi” was only exhibited by the artist for one evening in 1991 (and is still marked with pinholes from that show), and has never before been seen outside Tokyo.
Read MoreA Prolific New York Photographer Comes Back Into Focus
“You could almost say he had a lifetime of being continually rediscovered,” says the New York gallerist Margit Erb, referring to her friend, the photographer Saul Leiter. Leiter — who died in 2013, just shy of his 90th birthday — had a varied seven-decade career, and gained his most significant recognition in the last years of his life, with the 2006 publication of his book “Early Color.” “I think his rise back to fame was because people just couldn’t help stumbling over and over him, and realizing that the world needed to know him,” Erb says.
Read MoreAt Paris Photo, a Wide-Ranging Mix
Beginning today, 147 galleries and 27 art-book dealers and publishers will gather in Paris’s enormous, glass-domed Grand Palais for Paris Photo, the world’s largest photography fair.
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