Working in Germany between the two world wars, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891–1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing p

Presents profiles of six European artists and photographs of their work to showcase the use of modernism on objects and products used for daily life during the

Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of ‘first’ photographs and pro

Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and rac

Recent decades have seen photography’s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s