Photography as Art

Focus on photographic images

Joy-Gregory

INTRODUCTION Michael Pritchard, director general of the Royal Photographic Society, plots the progress of photography to a fully accepted art form Photography has gone through profound changes over the past 20 years with the move from silver-halide to digital imaging.... Read more

Digital painting with pixels

Steve-Bloom

TECHNOLOGY Like art, photography has always been driven by experimentation and innovation, writes Kevin Carter who describes the leap from analogue to digital There can be few photographers around today who haven’t made the move to digital, but it would... Read more

Pictures make time stand still

Ori-Gersht

STILL LIFE At a time when the use of long exposures was the norm, inanimate and motionless objects made especially suitable subjects, writes Miranda Gavin The term “still life” derives from Western fine art where, in its classical sense, it... Read more

Lo Stile Italiano

Meet the Britalians…

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FASHION They are fashion’s newest tribe but, warns Josh Sims, joining them might be harder than you think With his short back and sides neatly parted, his Oxford shoes polished to a parade-ground shine and his double-breasted grey flannel suit... Read more

Lost in translation

lostintranslation

FOOD The British might love Italian food, but what do Italians Emanuele and Stefania Norsa make of a British supermarket? Being an Italian in Britain can be quite challenging when it comes to shopping for groceries. Despite the world getting... Read more

Keep it simple, stupido!

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EATING Giorgio Locatelli explains why you could never order spaghetti Bolognese in Bologna and explodes other common myths about Italian food It’s odd to think back to how important “Italian” food was, historically. It had a golden era long before... Read more