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Internationally acclaimed photographer Sheila Metzner exhibits at the Getty Centre with a survey that recounts her fashion shoots and still lifes.

German photographer Jan Prengel looks beyond still life – instead capturing flowers and plant stems in motion, over an exposure time of 2-3 seconds.

The early pioneers of photography had no intentions of changing the world, or the medium itself. Even at the time of a discovery, they may not have realised the gravity of their finding. Whether it was Wilson Bentley or Étienne-Jules Marey—both were drawn to very different subjects—it was curiosity, and a certain desire and eagerness, that had them push the camera towards its absolute extreme, in order to unravel what one could and couldn’t do with it. Or take Dorothea Lange or Walker Evans—relatively younger than the previous two names. While one was an accomplished portraitist, the...

Alex Merola shares a list of the most influential, boundary-breaking photo books created by women, spanning from 1843 to 1999

Photobook Simon Hill HonFRPS, President of the RPS simon.hill@rps.org William Henry Fox Talbot was a polymath, perhaps best known as one of the founding father’s of photography, alongside Johann Heinrich Schulze (1717), Thomas Wedgwood (circa 1800), Nicéphore Niépce (circa 1820), and Louis Daguerre (1839).  Talbot’s salted paper photographic process was the result of experiments he had begun in 1834.  However, it was not until a few months after Daguerre’s announcement (made without revealing any useful details...