Critique

 

Critique (established 1999) is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.

 
Art of darkness

Art of darkness

Rick Poynor

Indie magazine Hellebore channels folk horror and the occult with an alchemical sense of graphic style. Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Overloading the page

Overloading the page

Rick Poynor

A big survey of Dutch photobooks raises issues about visual editing and layout. Critique by Rick Poynor
 
This is a column

This is a column

Rick Poynor

Design that tells the story of its own making harks back to conceptual art of the 1960s. By Rick Poynor
 
Unfinished business

Unfinished business

Rick Poynor

Scott King’s rallying call for creative freedom takes a satirical swipe at cultural gatekeepers. By Rick Poynor
 
Experiments in destabilisation

Experiments in destabilisation

Rick Poynor

A CalArts book celebrates decades of purposeful graphic weirdness. Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Los Angeles’ lost palace of treasures

Los Angeles’ lost palace of treasures

Rick Poynor

Using photographic evidence, designer Mark Nelson has reconstructed one of the great twentieth-century art collections. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Heroes of wealth and power

Heroes of wealth and power

Rick Poynor

An essay published in Mack’s new ‘Discourse’ series accuses three prominent photographers of creating propaganda for global capitalism. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Godard becomes ‘Godard’

Godard becomes ‘Godard’

Rick Poynor

In 1961, the new wave director posed for a German fashion photographer. The publicity pictures that followed are as self-reflexive as his films. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
Palaces of petroleum

Palaces of petroleum

Rick Poynor

The adventurous design of a 1960 book promoting Australia’s fossil fuel industry offers a poignant glimpse of an optimistic, unquestioning age.Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
The haunted shore

The haunted shore

Rick Poynor

Images of spectral sea-bathers haunt the light-filled pages of Nigel Grierson’s self-published photobook. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor
 
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