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Luigi Ghirri’s Affectionate Photos of Puglia’s Calm, Hushed Spaces
By the time of his death in 1992, at age 49, Luigi Ghirri had taken some 2,000 pictures in Puglia, most of which have never been seen publicly.
MACK Books
Art
Rosalind Fox Solomon Captures the Humanity of Everyday Lives
In a way, Solomon's photo series The Forgotten harks back to a time when viewers believed that pictures told it all.
Art
Uncanny Images of Iran’s Windswept Coasts
Hoda Afshar’s images capture craggy, Martian-red rock formations and poetic moments of communion between individuals and landscapes.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Collective Fatigue of the Welfare State
A persistent feature of Paul Graham’s photographs in Beyond Caring is the way they describe the act of waiting as a common, and alienating, condition of Britain’s welfare system.
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A Poignant Travelogue From a Mother to Her Daughter
The most important thing Ursula Schulz-Dornburg carried with her as she wandered the streets of Yerevan, Armenia, in search of new wonders, is not this camera or that, but the thought of her daughter.
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Considering the Weight and Worth of Gold
Through a range of visual and poetic essays, Lisa Barnard’s The Canary and The Hammer offers a heady examination of our enduring fascination with the element.