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21 Oct 2014:
Fighter planes breaking ranks, a forest growing from a man’s head, and a zebra making a run for it ... a new book called Concrete Canvas shows off the world’s most mind-boggling street art that merges with its environment
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19 Oct 2014: Which photobook would the world’s best photographers grab in a fire? Nan Goldin, Martin Parr and more pick their all-time favourites. Interviews by Sean O’Hagan
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18 Oct 2014:
The What We Wore blog collects old pictures of people wearing their trendiest gear. A tie-in book recalls the days before technology changed fashion and photography for ever
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11 Oct 2014: France's most prominent political journalist presents a memoir about her family's artistic side, delving into a box of letters written by her grandfather, the famous gallerist, writes Sue Roe
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6 Oct 2014:
Witches, gargoyles, demons, crucifixions … William Mortensen’s grotesque photographs are being reassessed – with a new book of his life and work, republication of his own book on photography and psychology, and exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle. All images by William Mortensen
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6 Oct 2014:
The Book Doctor recommends some inspiring books to help older children feel more confident about creating their own art
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6 Oct 2014: Ansel Adams called him ‘the antichrist’ and wanted him written out of history. But William Mortensen’s grotesque photographs of death, nudity and torture and are now having their day. Chris Campion pays tribute to a master of the macabre
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5 Oct 2014: Jean-Pierre Laffont’s photographs of the United States capture a nation undergoing an extraordinary transformation, writes Sean O’Hagan
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3 Oct 2014:
The best thing about Christopher Simon Sykes's authorised life of the painter is the anecdotes – the rest is superficial, writes James Hall
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2 Oct 2014:
A disembodied leg stands alone on stage; a man unfolds a motorway. Welcome to the weird world of post-photography, an exciting new form of image manipulation that mixes digital and analogue methods to cook up the unexpected
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Competition, 1 Oct 2014:
Send in your pictures inspired by great artists and you could win a signed copy of Marion Deuchars' Draw Paint Print like the Great Artists and Faber-Castell art supplies – plus see your masterpiece in a gallery on our site!
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30 Sep 2014:
Bolivia’s Mennonites have forsaken the modern world, but Jordi Ruiz Cirera’s new book of striking portraits captures the beauty of their austere lives, writes Sean O’Hagan
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29 Sep 2014:
After the second world war, the American road trip became a cultural phenomenon, as artists journeyed across the States in search of inspiration. Here are some of the most iconic images by photographers who, down the decades, have treated the great American highway as a muse
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28 Sep 2014: David Hockney comes across as emotionally detached and incurably eccentric in this second volume of Christopher Simon Sykes’s biography, writes Peter Conrad
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26 Sep 2014:
Free-speech organisations find US government is ‘failing to protect the rights of its most vulnerable citizens’ as popular books – including Shakespeare – are banned from institutions
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