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Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’
The legendary photojournalist looks back on a life committed to documenting people and the planet, and explains why nature became his focus
June 2023
Smile for the camera! Magical images of childhood – in pictures
Gathering images from 1865 to the present day, a new charity show focuses on children at play – from baking bread to playing on demolition sites
January 2023
Einstein, Piaf, Twiggy: Marilyn Stafford’s extraordinary life behind the lens
The American photographer, who has died aged 97, was equally at home documenting war as she was shooting celebrity portraits
March 2022
‘Einstein was smiling at me!’ Photographer Marilyn Stafford, 96, on celebrities, slums – and breakfast with Edith Piaf
She took pictures of world leaders and war zones, sung in a Paris nightclub and befriended Cartier-Bresson – then left her pictures under her bed for decades. As an exhibition of her work opens, she looks back on her extraordinary life
December 2021
How a small photo of a bomb site took its place alongside Picasso’s Guernica
Robert Capa’s image taken during Spanish civil war continues to enjoy potent afterlife in Reina Sofia museum
March 2021
Capa’s image from the Spanish civil war helps tenants find new life, 85 years on
The bomb-wrecked Madrid slum building immortalised in a 1936 photograph is to be saved as a memorial to Spain’s conflict, and its residents rehoused in modern flats
December 2019
Picasso, Lorca, Capa … art reveals fate of exiles who fled Franco’s Spain
A huge exhibition in Madrid of sketches, photographs and paintings records the plight of the 500,000 republican refugees after the civil war
July 2018
Robert Capa’s shell-damaged slum to be restored in Madrid
Immortalised by the photojournalist, a decaying block of working-class flats is to become a cultural hub bearing his name
July 2017
How a Capa photo of bombed flats in Madrid could help today’s residents
Campaigners seek heritage status for shrapnel-scarred walls, eight decades after civil war raid by Hitler’s forces
June 2017
Costume & culture
Famous photos restaged, from Picasso to Capa – in pictures
From Diane Arbus’s man in curlers to the little running boy by Willy Ronis, Catherine Balet makes delightful re-creations of the world’s most recognisable shots
September 2016
Leipzig flat made famous in Capa war photo becomes poignant memorial
Apartment featured in one of the most memorable images of the second world war restored to its former glory
July 2016
The digital age reshapes our notion of photography. Not everyone is happy ...
Instagram, selfies, citizen reportage – technology has produced a new kind of work that is finding its way into galleries
June 2016
Sportblog
How Robert Capa captured Tour de France’s essence and began a tradition
Richard Williams
Photographer’s famous images from a pre-war Tour are among those celebrated in a new book that reminds us of the race’s rich visual literature
January 2016
Greenslade
War's real heroes - the photojournalists who reveal the terrible truth
Press freedom group issues video to contrast military propaganda with reality
September 2015
Sean O'Hagan on photography
Contact sheets: where the magic and chaos of photographs comes alive
From the D-Day landings and Tiananmen Square to Salvador Dalí’s flying-cat hijinks, contact sheets reveal the hidden secrets of unforgettable images
July 2015
Ingrid Bergman: a life in pictures
Orphaned at the age of 13, Ingrid Bergman went from humble beginnings in Sweden to become one of the world’s most glamorous film actors. On the centenary of her birth, here is a selection of rare off-screen photographs
April 2015
Shooting With Light review – passionate story of a fearless photojournalist
Idle Motion have unearthed another untold gem in this terrific show about Gerda Taro, partner of Robert Capa, who died in the Spanish civil war
August 2014
The readers' editor on ...
The readers' editor on… sharp-eyed readers
Stephen Pritchard
The readers' editor: It may be August, but our readers remain alert to errors, and offer some clever, wise and sometimes funny observations
June 2014
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War – review
Amanda Vaill beautifully portrays three love affairs – including that between Hemingway and Gellhorn – but her book is marred by its cold war tone. By Paul Preston
April 2014
Hotel Florida review – a 'wrenchingly sad' account of love and bravery in the Spanish civil war
Describing the civil war through the lives of three famous couples, including Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, proves inspired, writes Lara Feigel
