An unrestrained eye
The Glass Archive presents a special three-part series – The unflinching lens
Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,
three eminent Japanese post-war photographers, have captured radical views of a c...
Cahiers d’Art releases 100th issue featuring Hiroshi Sugimoto
Cahiers d’Art, one of the most prominent publishers of the visual arts in the 20th century, will celebrate its 100th issue of the Cahiers d’Art revue since its debut in 1926. Issue No. 1, 2014 is the third edit...
Alibis – Sigmar Polke at Tate Modern
This autumn, Tate Modern presents Alibis, an exhibition bringing together works by the German experimental artist, Sigmar Polke. The show embraces the work spanning the five decades of Polke’s career – among th...
Tom Bianchi Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1975 – 1983
The Fahey/Klein Gallery will present the first exhibition from photographer Tom Bianchi’s newly released publication, Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1975-1983 (Damiani, 2013). Bianchi’s Polaroid images capture th...
Glass reviews Richard Avedon, Gagosian, Athens
Richard Avedon said, “Portraiture is performance. You can’t get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface (…) All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, cost...
A new dimension
I don’t think there is anything quite as inspiring as the great outdoors, particularly when its multifaceted appeal isn’t just limited to the organic forms of the environment itself but also its h...
Capturing light
Hiroshi Sugimoto has made his name as a chronicler of time immemorial. His photography emerges from and lives in the interstices of personal and collective memory, as part of what he calls “the hist...
Museum of Art and Design presents the first exhibition to explore jewellery and photography
The Museum of Art and Design in New York City will present a new exhibition to examine the interplay between photography and jewellery. Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography will be the first museum exhib...
A thousand lives by picture
Her legendary subjects are too numerous to mention. From Debbie Harry on the roof of her New York apartment, to Bob Marley on tour, to intimate portraits of the likes of WH Auden and William Burroughs, Sim...
It’s a kind of magic
On a chilly evening, hopefully one of the last remaining few, I sat drinking copious amount of tea with Jonny Briggs. This is a man with whom conversation will never need alcoholic lubrication. To see the wor...
Expect the unexpected
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” said the uncompromisingly wise, Atticus Finch, in Har...
Meisel Does It Again, and Again, For Prada
Above all else, Steven Miesel’s vision for how Prada should be seen in 2014 is drawn from a bilateral understanding of how the clothing should be appreciated. And for April, around the time we all begin to set ...
Up in the clouds
Amsterdam-based Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde has become quickly well-known in the art world for his Nimbus series of multi-disciplinary installations where using a smoke machine, and carefully adjus...
Be original or die
At Glass we have always prided ourselves on championing the forgotten pioneers of fashion and photography but there can be none greater than Madame Yevonde. Born Yevonde Thilone Cumbers in 1893, a...
From the archive, Glass talks to Michael Reinhardt – one of fashion’s under-recognised masters of photography
Micheal the realist – Glass talks to Michael Reinhardt, one of fashion’s
under-recognised
masters of photography
Born in Los Angeles in 1938, Michael Reinhardt is the eldest son of film producer and scr...
Many truths, many expressions
“Over the last two decades Rwanda has changed enormously … but there’s still a tendency to try to represent it, particularly visually, in relation to genocide”, says Dr Zoe Norridge, curator of the forthcom...
China’s inaugural art photography fair launches this year
Photo enthusiasts worldwide, especially in China, can now rejoice. China’s very first international art fair dedicated to photography, Photo Shanghai, will run from September 5-7 at the iconic Shanghai Exhibiti...
Gods and mortals
Since the invention of photography in the 19th century, photographers have aspired to capture memorable moments in sports and create defining images of young mesomorphs doing great things in athletic events. In...
Turkish delight – Glass talks to photo-artist Jamie McLeod as he returns with a new show, Ottoman Fight Club, in London
Following his 2010 show, Jack Off Johnny, the photo-artist Jamie Mcleod returns to the Dalston Superstore, London, this month with a new exhibition, portraits of Turkish oil wrestlers, entitled Ottoman Fight Cl...