Hitting the Mark…
Behind the scenes of the documentation department At “The Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10” in St. Petersburg in late 1915, an artist hung …
Happy 70th Birthday, akg-images!
Last autumn akg-images celebrated its 70th anniversary! To mark this milestone, we have delved behind the scenes at akg-images to explore the …
Goya’s The Disaster’s of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra), 1810-1820 Between 1810 and 1820, the Spanish painter and print maker Fransisco Goya (1746–1828) produced a series of around 80 etchings he was to call … → October 19, 2015
Guest Blog: Rustling in the Gauze – Nabokov and Fighting
Lillian Wilkie is an artist, educator and bookseller based in London. Her work incorporates photography, sculpture and installation with writing and quiet …
The tragic artist
125 years ago today, in the rented room in the Auberge Ravoux, Vincent van Gogh died of an infection caused by a …
Worshipping at the Altar
Earlier this month I was in Poland to attend the annual Cepic conference which this year was held in Warsaw. My first …
All the world’s a stage: George Mann
Back in 2009 through a mutual friend I got to know Dianne Woods. As well as being a successful commercial photographer and …
The colour of Paris: Peter Cornelius
In 1956, the photo industry introduced a brand new 35 mm colour film flexible enough to allow for colour manipulation in the …
A vintage take on “Better Call Saul”
“Better Call Saul” was always going to be somewhat of a risk: taking a relatively minor character from one of America’s most-loved …
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
“Gypsy” is one of the great Broadway musicals and has at its centre one of the most horrifying and heartbreaking characters in …