07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 22 Mar 2023 12.53 GMT Ida, grandmother from BrooklynSouth Miami Beach is a tiny gem of Art Deco architecture. It was once the winter destination of choice for many seniors throughout the 1970s and 80s. After years of working hard, having survived the depression, the war and concentration camps, Jewish senior […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 26 Jan 2023 10.43 GMT Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio (Filming The Aviator), Canada, 2003 by Brigitte LacombeBrigitte Lacombe’s oeuvre could be described as a who’s who of the second half of the 20th century. Along with her studio portraits she has a long-term project of shooting on director Martin Scorsese’s […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 18 Oct 2022 16.44 BST Scarecrow in a rice field, Tulas, India, 2015To celebrate 75 years of Magnum, the celebrated photography agency is running three sales exploring their illustrious history. Following the success of Precedents, this second instalment is called Now and is in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery. There are […]
07.00 BST In the 1800s and early 1900s, many Welsh people emigrated to the US to escape poverty and suppression of their identity in order to make a better life overseas. The Singing Hills is a series of portraits and landscapes that portray Welsh descendants in upstate New York and Vermont, as well as their relatives […]
10.48 BST Bode and Wilson Wrestling Vertical, 2022 Facebook Twitter Matthew and Oden, 2018 Facebook Twitter Forest Sculpture, 2020 Facebook Twitter Ramon, 2020 Facebook Twitter Leo, Lexi, Lily, Willa, 2022 Facebook Twitter Braily, 2020 Facebook Twitter Fred and his twin, 2020 Facebook Twitter Matthew, Jackson and Oden, 2018 Facebook Twitter TaeShawn, 2020 Facebook Twitter Topics Culture […]
07.00 BST Hiroji Kubota: Stock exchange, Hong Kong, 1996The first of Magnum’s three NFT collections will be released as part of the agency’s 75th anniversary celebrations throughout 2022. The collection can be found on Foundation. Six drops will then take place over the next two weeks to 12 July. Each drop will include a selection of […]
09.17 BST Last modified on Wed 8 Jun 2022 09.41 BST A Matter of Colour. Documentary of the Struggle for Racial Equality in the USA – Danny Lyon and others, London, 1965Photography and mass or pop culture grew dramatically during the 60s. Globally, news events were captured in printed photos: from colonial wars, revolts against racial segregation […]
07.00 BST Moves and Pepsi, Harlem, New York, 1955A new retrospective of William Klein’s work explores the artist’s life and career, highlighting his development as an artist and the connections between his different practices. William Klein: YES is at the International Center of Photography, New York until 12 September. All photographs: William Klein/Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery […]
07.00 BST Roller Dancer, Empire, 1979 Bill Bernstein: ‘You can see the proto-hip-hop moves here that were part of the roller scene at venues like the Empire in Brooklyn.’ The book Last Dance, as well as other items from Bill Bernstein’s collection, is available to buy online from Defected. Prints are available to buy from the […]
07.00 GMT Anonymous, film poster for Ester iz Solema, 1929A selection of 250 film posters capture the cultural energy of the pre-Stalin era. Drawn from the private collection of connoisseur Susan Pack, the selection includes the work of 27 different artists. Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde is published by Taschen. All images: Taschen/Susan Pack collection […]
20.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 20.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Fruit of comedy loins … Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem with Jermaine Fowler as his son, Lavelle, in Coming 2 America. Photograph: Quantrell D Colbert/Amazon Studios Did we need a sequel to Eddie Murphy’s fish-out-of-water 1980s romp […]
07.00 GMT Winner: Untitled, from the book The UncannyLéonard Pongo is the winner of the ICP/GOST First Photo Book award 2020, from the International Center for Photography and publisher GOST. The Uncanny explores Pongo’s relationship to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the inner process he went through as he tried to understand the region, reconnect […]
07.23 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Feb 2021 07.24 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A scene from Godzilla. Photograph: Associated Press Some may regard the use of a line like “We’re in his mouth!” as an indicator of a film’s less than stellar quality. The sort of on-the-nose dialogue, they would […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 28 Jan 2021 10.06 GMT Issac Zora In Ava’s Yard, Apopka, Florida, 2017Sasha Phyars-Burgess was born in Brooklyn, New York to Trinidadian parents, and was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bard college in 2010 with a BA in photography. Sasha is a vital, emerging voice in contemporary photography – […]
07.34 GMT Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 07.36 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mouth (for L’Oréal), New York, 1986. Photograph: Irving Penn/The Irving Penn Foundation Whether it’s a grainy portrait of Pablo Picasso or a stark picture of ginkgo leaves, you know an Irving Penn photo when you see one. […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 15.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It is ironic China is now trying to claim this film’ … a scene from 76 Days. In the opening scene of 76 Days, the extraordinary inside story of how Wuhan’s hospitals coped with the initial wave […]
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21.52 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 21.54 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tracy Chapman and Nicki Minaj. Photograph: GETTY IMAGES Nicki Minaj has agreed to pay $450,000 to Tracy Chapman over a copyright infringement dispute. The rapper had been set for trial after the singer sued her for using […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 21.46 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email John Lennon and David Bowie at the 1975 Grammy awards. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage David Bowie and John Lennon first met in scenes more reminiscent of an awkward children’s playdate than a summit of two of rock’s greatest […]
06.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘She could have said no’ … Sade, Polaroid by Maripol. Photograph: Maripol The first time Sade came to New York was in May 1983. The band played the Danceteria. My friend Edwige and I went along. I hadn’t met Sade before but I knew their […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 8 Dec 2020 15.51 GMT John Harrison, Elko, Nevada, 1981Kurt Markus was born in Montana in 1947 and lived there for most of his life until his recent move to Santa Fe, New Mexico. His deep western roots are reflected in his early photographs, as well as his later volumes on […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 2 Dec 2020 15.41 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email “Shame on you! How could you bring that up? You wanna see a grown man cry?” Joel Grey is berating me on Zoom. All I wanted to know was how he got the nickname Mr Porno when […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 27 Nov 2020 08.46 GMT Grace Jones, New York, 1981 Photograph: Adrian Boot/urbanimage.tv Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wham! Photograph: Tony McGee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skepta Photograph: Ki Pharaoh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beth Ditto“Having photographed the likes of Liam Gallagher, Pete Townshend and Beth Ditto, the thrill of making new images and meeting […]
14.30 GMT Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 17.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Neil Diamond with some of his early loves (from left): Hit Parader magazine, Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pete Seeger. Composite: Guardian Design/Redferns/AP/Alamy Brooklyn Dodgers I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and for me […]
12.04 GMT Last modified on Wed 11 Nov 2020 13.29 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Master melodist and trainspotter … Antonín Dvořák. Photograph: Bettmann Archive Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a passionate Czech whose music transcended national boundaries and, indeed, crossed the world. A contemporary of Brahms and Tchaikovsky – his late symphonies […]
09.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Come again … Stone Roses singer Ian Brown. Photograph: Joel Phillips/Empics Second Coming (1994)The Stone Roses Released five years after the Madchester pioneers’ era-defining debut, Second Coming has become synonymous with difficult second album syndrome. Battling high expectations, crippling self-doubt and, in the end, themselves, […]
16.12 BST Last modified on Sat 24 Oct 2020 16.13 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest A performance from 1939. Viola Smith, a pioneering drummer and original “hep girl” of the swing and big band era, died on Wednesday in Costa Mesa, California. She was 107. Tommy DeVito: Four Seasons […]
06.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lesley Lokko says the obstacles that she encountered in New York were unlike anything she had come up against before. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian When the Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko was appointed to head the architecture school at the City college of New York last […]
16.07 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Oct 2020 22.33 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I see new chicanery every day’ … David Byrne. Photograph: Gonzales Photo/Alamy ‘I kept telling myself I was OK,” says David Byrne, recounting his last seven months living through various stages of lockdown in New York. “But […]
21.44 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Oct 2020 22.33 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Soul. Photograph: Lifestyle pictures/Alamy Stock Photo Here is Pixar’s charming, bewildering and beautiful new animation about life after death and life before death – and that title incidentally reminds you how we got the word “animation”. It’s […]