Kirstie Alley’s most memorable roles from a life on screen – video obituary
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‘Facing the world with courage’: Europe on the brink of war – in pictures
07.00 GMT Street Scene, Warsaw, PolandThis is Nalewki Street, the commercial centre of the Warsaw Jewish Quarter. Six years after Richard Scheuer’s visit, it became part of the Warsaw Ghetto and was destroyed when the Nazis razed the Ghetto in 1943. Street Visions: Europe, 1934 – Photographs by Richard J Scheuer is on view at Dr […]
Traditional china serving up the big issues of today – in pictures
17.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 5 Dec 2022 11.19 GMT New American Scenery, Across the Borderline No 4 (Trumpian Campaigne), 2020Transfer print collage on shell-edge pearlware platter, c1820. Paul Scott: ‘The 1,954 miles from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico are marked by a series of intermittent vertical barriers, the border ‘wall’. As of November […]
Environmental photographer of the year 2022 – in pictures
09.04 GMT Last modified on Fri 2 Dec 2022 09.13 GMT Winner: Vision of the Future | Vertical Farming by Arie BasukiOfficers maintain vegetable crops in a warehouse at Sentra farm in West Java, Indonesia. Vegetables such as curly lettuce, romaine, oclave green, siiomak, kailan are cultured in a room where the light and temperature remain stable. […]
Flexing it! Mind-bending female photography – in pictures
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 1 Dec 2022 09.20 GMT Cristina De Middel: Una Piedra en el Camino, 2021De Middel’s Journey to the Center series borrows the atmosphere and structure of the Jules Verne book Journey to the Centre of the Earth to present the Central American migration route across Mexico as a heroic and daring […]
A merry Medea? Inside Lost Dog’s Ruination at the Royal Opera House – in pictures
15.59 GMT Hannah Shepherd-Hulford (centre) plays Medea in Ruination, devised by company Lost Dog Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Ruination retells the myth of the sorceress Medea, who killed her own children, with some arresting new perspectives. Here, Miguel Altunaga (centre) plays King Aeëtes Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Jean-Daniel Broussé as Hades. Lost […]
The power of simplicity: Magnum’s latest NFT collection – in pictures
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 30 Nov 2022 11.25 GMT Steve McCurry: Jodhpur, India, 2005Magnum 75 is the inaugural NFT collection by Magnum Photos. Created in 2022 for the agency’s 75th anniversary year, this is the second of three instalments. The 75 NFTs were curated with Azu Nwagbogu, founder and director of the African Artists’ Foundation […]
Car burning and cow massages: French village quirks – in pictures
07.00 GMT Over 12 years, Thomas Rousset probed every corner of his childhood village Prabert, on the border of France and Switzerland, to create a surreal, tender and fictitious world examining the totemic and ritualistic aspects of rural life. Prabérians is available to buy through Loose Joints. All photographs: Thomas Rousset Share on Facebook Share on […]
Martin Parr’s holiday snaps … with added water damage – in pictures
09.20 GMT A new book from Martin Parr features water-damaged prints from a 1991 shoot at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Signed copies of Acropolis Now are available through Setanta books in association with the Martin Parr Foundation. All photographs: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos Share on Facebook Share on Twitter ‘I initially panicked when I realised my […]
Kings of the underground: the last coal miners of Wales
08.00 GMT Eleanor Lee, 77, wife of a miner from Glyncorrwg, Afan Valley’The kids were out playing and they could see a lot of men coming over the mountain with a stretcher. One of the boys had got killed in the pit. They just carried him back across the mountain to his home. And that was […]
Fashion, fine art … and Hitler: the turbulent career of Erwin Blumenfeld – in pictures
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 23 Nov 2022 08.04 GMT Self-Portrait in the Photography Studio of the Rue Delambre Paris, 1939Born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1897, Erwin Blumenfeld was beginning to make his name in Paris as a fashion photographer when the German occupation took place. He was interned in various camps in […]
Cars, bars and burger joints: William Eggleston’s iconic America – in pictures
07.00 GMT The Outlands, a series of photographs taken by William Eggleston between 1970 and 1973, took viewers on a tour through the mystic and evolving American South and established the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to come. His motifs of signage, cars and roadside scenes create […]
‘Plastic Man’ in Senegal on mission against trash – in pictures
07.00 GMT The environmental activist Modou Fall, who many simply call ‘Plastic Man’, poses for a photo at the Yarakh Beach littered with trash and plastics in Dakar, Senegal. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A former soldier, the 49-year-old father of three, says that plastic pollution, often excessive from people who chuck things out without […]
The week around the world in 20 pictures
19.53 GMT Last modified on Fri 18 Nov 2022 21.29 GMT Zaporizhzhia, UkraineA Ukrainian serviceman fires a mortar on a frontline Photograph: Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Roma, Texas, USLit by border patrol vehicle lights in the distance, an asylum-seeking woman walks with her child along a migrant trail after being smuggled across the Rio […]
Fantasy football: a kickabout with the surrealists – in pictures
17.00 GMT Marcel Duchamp (centre-back)“I don’t believe in football. I believe in footballers.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter René Magritte (central midfielder)“The luxury player evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Samuel Beckett (right winger)“Ever tried a bicycle kick. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail […]
Holy Havana! Cuba’s places of worship – in pictures
07.00 GMT Church of Our Lady of Regla (1818), Havana, 2019This series of landscape studies of places of worship form a visual timeline of Cuban religious history. Shot on a large-format camera, the highly detailed yet intimate photographs reveal a surprising range of architectural forms. The subtle attention to colour, light and scale, combined with the […]
Blank canvas: PhotoVogue festival – in pictures
07.00 GMT From the series New Humans Photographer and performer Lucrezia Testa Iannilli works in contemporary art using human and animal bodies. She is currently carrying out the long-term work New Humans, an investigation into the preservation of the human being from an unusual, non-human perspective PhotoVogue is thrilled to announce the 25 artists selected for […]
‘He caught us with our trousers down’: Jim Marshall’s Rolling Stones photographs
07.22 GMT Keith Richards and Mick Jagger at Sunset Sound, spring 1972, Los Angeles, California. ‘Once Jim was in, he was another Stone. He caught us with our trousers down and got the ups and downs.’ – Richards Photograph: JB/Jim Marshall Photography LLC Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Keith Richards’ guitar at Sunset Sound, Los […]
From Blur to big beat! The 90s and beyond – in pictures
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 15 Nov 2022 12.00 GMT Supergrass, Metro magazine, the Saturday Times, London, 1997Showcasing Soulla Petrou’s unique and original portraiture alongside live shots and club scenes, a new book charts her early career shooting emerging talent and evolving musical genres for magazines such as Mixmag, DJ, Touch and the Face. A Kickstarter […]
‘Street photography is my religion’: Americans on the edge – in pictures
07.00 GMT Election, Houston 2020The portraits for Encounters were taken in cities across America that include Houston, New York, New Orleans and Los Angeles. The photos display an appreciation for the human spirit, with all its imperfections and challenges. Encounters: Portraits of Americans is published by Daylight Books. All photographs: Tom ‘TBow’ Bowden Facebook Twitter Marshall, […]
Mean, moody and magnificent: film noir studio portraits – in pictures
11.11 GMT Last modified on Thu 10 Nov 2022 11.38 GMT The Killers (1946)Burt Lancaster with Ava Gardner in a moody publicity shot for the film, based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway. This was Lancaster’s first starring role at the age of 33 with Gardner, one of the most memorable femme fatales of the film […]
The disturbing spectacle of carnival in Haiti – in pictures
10.00 GMT Chapo ak Fle (Hat with Flowers), 2009 Facebook Twitter Nèg ak Konk (Man with Conch Shell Horn), 2001 Photograph: Leah Gordon Facebook Twitter Kouvre Fe (Curfew), 2009 Facebook Twitter Nèg pote Wob (Man in Dress), 1996 Facebook Twitter Advertisement Gason Bó Lanmé-a (Boy by the Sea), 2000 Facebook Twitter Lansè Kòd (The Rope Throwers), […]
‘Tread carefully, always’: family life from all angles – in pictures
07.00 GMT Taraxacum officinale (dandelion)Permissions, the first monograph by photographer Emma Hardy, is a tender document of motherhood and childhood, love and yearning and leaving home. The images in the book are gathered and distilled from Hardy’s personal archive and span a period of 20 years. They show moments of domesticity interspersed with idyllic scenes – […]
Back to the future: cutting-edge images at Paris Photo – in pictures
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 8 Nov 2022 11.47 GMT Gregory Crewdson: Untitled (Man in Forest with Hole), a NFT from the series Beneath the Roses, 2003-2008Fellowship is a new artist and collector-led photography organisation with NFT collections from emerging and established photographers. Central to its presentation at Paris Photo is Crewdson’s celebrated series Beneath the […]
Luxury watches crafted from paper – in pictures
17.00 GMT Card sculpture of a Rafael Nadal Richard Mille RM35-02 Facebook Twitter Model of the Patek Phillipe World Timer Facebook Twitter Model of the Patek Phillipe Aquanaut in white gold Facebook Twitter Sculpture of the Richard Mille RM11-03 Ultimate Edition Facebook Twitter Advertisement Cartier Paris Crash in yellow gold remade in card and glue Facebook […]
Ken Burns’s photographic history of America – in pictures
05.03 GMT Last modified on Fri 4 Nov 2022 17.35 GMT John Plumbe opened a daguerreotype studio in Washington DC, in 1845. Plumbe’s three views of the United States Capitol form its first photographic record. The Capitol, whose original building was begun in 1791 and took 34 years to construct, stands at the intersection of Pennsylvania, Constitution […]
‘Extraordinary treasure trove’: Saul Leiter’s unseen images
07.00 GMT Source box: ‘Snow’Upon his death in 2013, Saul Leiter left behind a collection of more than 40,000 colour slides, only a fraction of which had seen the light of day. A new book showcases the images from that extraordinary photographic treasure trove. It has been meticulously curated by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo of […]
Village people: the rituals of rural life – in pictures
07.00 GMT Skanus kąsnis / Tasty Bite, 1986Daily Rituals of Work and Play is the first major exhibition in the UK of Lithuanian artist-photographer Rimaldas Vikšraitis. It spans nearly 40 years of his artistic practice, which focuses on rural life and the traditional customs that mark communal events such as weddings, funerals and courtship rituals. Daily […]
George, Eric and me: Pattie Boyd on her favourite images – in pictures
07.00 GMT Pattie taken on honeymoon in Barbados with George Harrison, 1966The name Pattie Boyd is synonymous with 60s counter-culture, from fashion to music to spirituality. Granting full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time, the model and photographer shares over 300 pictures and artworks in a new book – and talks […]
Fifteen seconds of fame: Hollywood extras – in pictures
07.00 BST Backdrop, Invictus, 2009The life of a movie extra has always fascinated Keith Bernstein. On every production he photographs these outsiders, always 20 feet from stardom, who subject themselves to long hours on set, waiting for their brief moment in the spotlight. The Extras series began on the set of Invictus in Cape Town in […]