photography

Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne (detail; 1931), August Sander.

How August Sander faced up to modern times

By turning social types into individuals, the photographer influenced many of his contemporaries and shaped how we see the 20th-century

10 Aug 2022
Rock slump from the cliffs of Sarikaya, near Yesilbaskoy. In antiquity, Sarikya was one of the main limestone quarries providing ancient Sagalossos with stone building materials.

The photographers who are obsessed with the passing of time in Turkey

Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys use 19th-century processes to bring a very modern sensibility to archaeological sites in Anatolia

3 Aug 2022
Colosseum, Rome (c. 1855), James Anderson.

The British photographers who took their visual cues from the Grand Tour

Victorian photographers in Italy were inevitably influenced by forms of landscape painting made popular in the preceding century

30 May 2022

All photographs are products of their time – and they should be treated that way

Turning black and white photos into colour – and vice versa – can be a harmless piece of fun, but the results can also mess with our sense of the past

13 May 2022