Avant garde photography

Man Ray looks like a double exposure photograph

On opening night of the Maurizio Cattelan retrospective at the Guggenheim (read Peter Schjeldahl’s review of the show), a Hummer stretch limo with the …

Funke repeatedly experimented with mirroring, transparencies and reflections – scrutinizing the perception of the viewer, some series no longer working with objects but solely with their shadows.

Marcus Leatherdale - Larissa: Costume by Issey Miyake, 1983

In 1937, the photographer Erwin Blumenfeld coaxed Carmen Visconti out of her clothes to model for his camera. It wasn't her first time posing nude. More then fifty years before, she'd been the nubile subject of The Kiss by Auguste Rodin, one of the 19th century's most iconic sculptures. By photographing her ravaged eighty-year-old body his Paris studio, Blumenfeld was not only showing the passage of time, but also signaling that photography was the fine art of his era. Blumenfeld made his…

The works of this great artist, photographer, and designer grace probably every 20th-century art museum in the world.