Adri Tatu

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Helen Frankenthaler

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In LA HOJARASCA, Elsa Leydier explores our paradoxical relationship with nature, caught between fascination and destruction. She works directly on tropical leaves (palm trees, banana plants, etc.), chosen for their strong symbolic weight in the Western imagination, coating them with paint. Once painted, the plants suffocate and become frozen, transitioning from living elements into fragile sculptures.

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cigarettes by Irving Penn

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Irving Penn

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

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John Divola - Dogs Chasing My Car in the Deserts

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Hicham Benohoud’s new photobook “The Classroom” is a photographic ode to the relationship between power and pedagogy

In The Classroom, Benohoud’s evocative use of photography delves into his own experiences as a middle school teacher in Morocco. His frustration with the limited artistic resources and oppressive educational system of the time led him to experiment with photography as a pedagogical tool. He would create a makeshift darkroom in his classroom, encouraging his students to engage with photography in a way that transcended traditional boundaries of instruction. As he describes it, “I was introducing an element of escape—a way to both rebel and create—by blending imagination with the daily grind.”

Published by Loose Joints, in 2025

Winner of PhotoBook of the Year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2025

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Robert Frank

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Henry Head was a British neurologist who is well known for a self-experiment he conducted on his own left arm to study the sensory pathways and recovery after nerve injury.

Henry Head, together with colleague W.H.R. Rivers, performed a famous experiment in 1901 in which Head had two cutaneous nerves in his own left forearm — the radial and external cutaneous nerves — surgically severed. The nerves were then carefully rejoined. Over the following years, Head meticulously documented the gradual return of sensation, working closely with Rivers to test and record changes in touch, temperature, pain, and proprioception.

This self-experiment allowed them to distinguish between two types of sensory systems:

Protopathic (primitive, poorly localized sensations like pain and extreme temperature)

Epicritic (more advanced, fine discriminative touch and temperature)

The experiment was groundbreaking and helped lay the foundation for modern understanding of the somatosensory system and nerve regeneration.

Original images are digitally touched up.

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Alexandra Duprez

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Bruce Weber

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Christ Hunt

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Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures

The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Photographer Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of images of teenage girls, taken between 1997 and 2002 on the road in the American wilderness. “I staged the girls as a standing army of teenaged runaways in resistance to patriarchal ideals,” says Kurland. She portrays the girls as fearless and free, tender and fierce. They hunt and explore, braid each other’s hair, and swim in sun-dappled watering holes—paying no mind to the camera (or the viewer). Their world is at once lawless and utopian, a frontier Eden in the wild spaces just outside of suburban infrastructure and ideas. Twenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.

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Mika Ninagawa

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Mika Ninagawa

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Alfred Stieglitz: From the Back Window of 291, April 1915