Opinion: Book design
Godard becomes ‘Godard’
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
In 1961, the new wave director posed for a German fashion photographer. The publicity pictures that…
Streets without people
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans explores the clotted terrain of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Shinjuku districts with the…
Relentless riches
Critique / Photography, Front matter
A busy blockbuster traces the stunning history of Japanese photobooks. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
Graphic language of the wall
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti with handwritten typographic treatments made striking, almost punkish…
Depth and ambiguity
Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the photographic…
Words and pictures talking
Design history, Critique / Photography
Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor John…
Energy and emotion
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Aperture’s new series of photography books may prove to be an essential educational resource for serious…
The woman who took on the Wolf Man
Sława Harasymowicz’s first foray into graphic novels illuminates a Freudian case history with thrilling…
Regeneration X
Laura Oldfield Ford’s grainy Savage Messiah brings new urgency to an updated punk aesthetic. Critique by…
‘Type-only Penguins sell a million’ shock
Penguin uses design to revitalise its back catalogue with Great Ideas and a revived Reference Library