photography

Tim Hetherington at the Imperial War Museum

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‘Doc’ Kelso is sleeping. Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. July 2008. (© TIM HETHERINGTON FOR VANITY FAIR) The most important exhibition you’ll see in London this year isn’t in your Tates or your White Cubes, but beyond the naval guns, spitfires and jeeps, deep in the Imperial War Museum. Storyteller: Photography by Tim Hetherington is … Read more

He toiled in obscurity – but now Saul Leiter is recognized as a true photography pioneer

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Saul Leiter, Footprints, ca. 1950 – detail – Saul Leiter Foundation When 24-year-old Saul Leiter first saw Henri Cartier-Bresson’s prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1947, photographers were content to be considered photographers. The current aspirational ideal is ‘artist’ or ‘artist who uses a camera’. But if Leiter is a … Read more