The recording artist – who died in January at the age of 69 – has been celebrated through numerous releases in the intervening months. Alongside shows at Proud Camden and The Hub, 2016 has seen the launch of a new book by Bowie’s official photographer through 1972-3: Mick Rock. Here BJP looks at the imagery during a time which saw the artist ‘construct a complete mythology around himself’.
Cedric Van Turtlebloom’s contemporary documentary style centres around everyday life – but not as we know it. Currently editing his second photobook, in which he takes a quizzical look at China’s burgeoning middle class and its penchant for artificial ski slopes, his visual stories are anything but conventional.
Jim Marshall’s photos of 60s jazz festivals capture the many greats of the ‘first uniquely American art form’.
On visiting the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo in 2012, Oliver Curtis turned and looked back in the direction he had come from. What he saw fascinated him. He has since made a point of turning his back on some of world’s most photographed monuments and historic sites, looking at their counter-views and forgotten faces.
Sandler credits his fascination with street life to his years in New York as a…
2016 has already proved to be an eventful year for sport. As we were just…
“Let me try to explain you something,” says renowned American photojournalist Paula Bronstein. “Afghans are…
Claxton and Berendt spent time music halls and marching bands, side streets and subways, seekin to…
“War is the natural occupation of man – war and gardening,” said Winston Churchill, whose observation is printed on the opening page of Corinne Silva’s new monograph, Garden State.
In 1726, a diary found on the barren and desolate South-Atlantic island of Ascension. Norwegian artist Marianne Bjørnmyr’s transformation of the diary into a new photobook, titled An Authentic Relation, is about to launch at The Photographers Gallery, London.
