The Photo Issue 2009
Catherine Opie
That was the 90s, when identity politics were new and exciting and when Catherine Opie was pretty much the official documentary photographer of the lesbian/gay/transgender/BDSM/radical-performance-art community.
State-Sponsored Voyeurism
We will probably never know the proper names of some of our favorite photographers of the last century. You see, these people were not working for the sake of artistic glory. Instead, they served a totalitarian state apparatus.
Jazz and Blues and Blues and Jazz
British photographer Val Wilmer had her earliest work published 50 years ago. She started the first women’s-only photo agency, campaigned for women’s and civil rights, and is one of Britain’s leading experts on jazz and blues.
Miroslav Tichy
Born in 1926, Miroslav Tichy was a painter until the late 1960s, when he started taking photos, mostly of local women sunbathing, using equipment that he built himself.
Harri Peccinotti
Every photographer who's made a career out of pressing shutter buttons in front of beautiful women owes a great debt to Harri Peccinotti. He was the first person to consistently capture the sexuality of everyday activities on camera: subversively...