Unicorn lollies and six million avocados: our insatiable appetite for Instafood
As a new exhibition charts our obsession with photographing food, we look at the hottest dishes, the dark side of Instagrammed cupcakes and how social media is changing the way we eat
Irving Penn: The Met to host retrospective – in pictures
The American photographer is best known for his fashion photography, which appeared in Vogue magazine, as well as his portraits and advertising work for Issey Miyake and Clinique. A new exhibition celebrates 70 years of work
60 years of chic: the incredible portraits of Irving Penn – in pictures
The acclaimed photographer had a serious eye for style, turning Salvador Dalí, roosters, bumblebeesand even blocks of frozen beans into high fashion icons
The Photographers 2014: from Marlene Dietrich to Salvador Dalí – in pictures
An exhibition by two London galleries brings together a huge range of groundbreaking photographs, showcasing the work of acclaimed photographers including Brassai, Bruce Davidson and Robert Mapplethorpe
Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930-80 – review
As well as the pea soupers, the Tower and Big Ben, cockneys and City gents in bowlers, there are some wonderful and unexpected pictures in a survey of 20th-century photography in the capital, writes Laura Cumming
The V&A's new Photographs gallery: behind the scenes at the museum – video
Take an exclusive tour of the new Photographs gallery at London's V&A, where images by Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Diane Arbus are about to go on display
Irving Penn shot everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Picasso. So how did his photographs manage to make his subjects look so ordinary? Sean O'Hagan is fascinated by the NPG's new retrospective
