Feature: Photography

 
Art and art direction – Thomas Lenthal

Art and art direction – Thomas Lenthal

Thomas Lenthal, creative director for luxury fashion brands and his own magazine Paradis.
 

Traces of man

Herbert Spencer’s photographs celebrate accidental design
 

Pictures for rent

Stock photography receives little attention and wins even fewer awards, but it makes up a corporate vernacular that informs almost all levels of graphic design
 
Look away

Look away

‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso display of graphic design authorship
 

Reputations: Alexander Liberman

‘I think the term “art director” is the greatest misnomer. There’s no art in magazines unless you are reproducing works of art.’
 

Here, there and nowhere

Pictures of non-places, the grubby and eroded gaps between the real spaces of the urban realm, make a spectacle of the unspectacular
 
23 Envelope: ambience and inner space

23 Envelope: ambience and inner space

Operating undercover, using the enigmatic title of 23 Envelope, Nigel Grierson and his partner Vaughan Oliver created designs of exceptional power. Their work inspired the next generation of image-makers. By Rick Poynor
 
Brought to Light

Brought to Light

Editorial
 
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