Book review – photography
Larkin’s misty parks and moors — in all their lacerating beauty
When Philip Larkin went up to St John’s College, Oxford, in the early 1940s, he found himself in a world…
The surreal beauty of Soviet bus stops
The Soviet Union was a nation of bus stops. Cars were hard to come by, so a vast public transport…
Camp carnival: Roy Strong’s 80th birthday pageant
For his 75th birthday, Sir Roy Strong gave himself a personal trainer. For his 80th, he has commissioned a book…
Death wears bling: the glory of London’s Caribbean funerals
Death is big business in parts of the Caribbean. In the Jamaican capital of Kingston, funeral homes with their plastic…
Cecil Beaton, the bitch
Beaton was the great inventor. Apart from inventing not only himself but his look, his voice, his persona and a…
Charles Saatchi’s new book of photos makes me feel sick
Charles Saatchi, the gallery owner, has created his own Chamber of Horrors in this thick, square book, ‘inspired by striking…
Floating bodies, seeing hands, rippling skies - is Jerry Uelsmann’s photomontage a tragic dead-end?
An untitled photograph by Jerry Uelsmann from 1991 shows a rock like Magritte’s floating in the sky between an Ansel…
Charles Saatchi's photo play
The game that Charles Saatchi plays in The Naked Eye is to find photographs of subjects that look surprisingly like…
