Critique
Critique is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
Cold War culture-jammer
Rick Poynor
Hispanic photomonteur Josep Renau aimed Technicolor jets of scorn at the mirage of US consumerist…
Online rhetoric
Rick Poynor
Though intended to make its contents ‘democratic’, art website The Space is a perplexing jumble.…
Words and pictures talking
Rick Poynor
Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor John…
Against the flow
Rick Poynor
As editorial design becomes more predictable, Swedish feminist quarterly Bang kicks against visual…
Energy and emotion
Rick Poynor
Aperture’s new series of photography books may prove to be an essential educational resource for serious…
Readymade format
Rick Poynor
An illustrated ‘gift book’ dictionary by Heretic brings Marcel Duchamp’s ideas to a wider audience.…
Photographer as page maker
Rick Poynor
David Campany’s examination of Walker Evans’ freewheeling magazine work – for Fortune, Architectural…
Space for stories
Rick Poynor
Visual Editions’ box of literary maps challenges authors to think differently about the structures that…
Occupation hazardous
Rick Poynor
For ‘place hackers’, subversive and daredevil urban explorers, photography validates a search for the…
Incisive vision
Rick Poynor
Eduardo Paolozzi’s gifts as a collagist have been neglected by the worlds of both art and design.…