Magnum Photos

This week in 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down. Die Deutschen is a definitive portrait and history of the complex, changing German nation, which continues to undergo great transitions. The third edition was published in 1999 by Robert Delpire.

In 1961, Eve Arnold followed the Nation of Islam to their meetings and rallies, and profiling Malcolm X, who later left the Nation for a more traditional form of Islam, and was later assasinated. The later ...

Renowned as an intrepid explorer of the urban terrain, Bruce Davidson challenges himself in a remarkable new way, taking on the visual and metaphorical scope of Central Park. Davidson's photographic approach to the park's wildlife - human and otherwise - varies as much in format as it does in emotio...

Ricco/Maresca Gallery presents Violet Isle: a portrait of Cuba by the photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, in conjunction with the launch of their book of photographs, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs of Cuba, published by Radius Books.Opening Reception 5 Nov, 6-8pm

Paris – On November 20, 2009, Magnum, the legendary photo collective, will open a gallery in the heart of Saint Germain des Prés, in the former exhibition spaces of Robert Delpire, one of France’s most distinguished publishers and photography connoisseurs.

"Earlier this year I realized we would celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I went back into my archive and discovered that I had boxes full of negatives that I had never seen before, taken in East Germany over the past 50 years It was a treasure which had to be unearthed."

Peter van Agtmael has risked his life to capture the grim reality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heart of the known awaits just around the corner."

Halloween's origins date back some 2000 years to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. ...

Parke's eye is drawn to the many details that may, ordinarily, be overlooked. The electric blues and oranges, kilometres of cabling, lines of tape and graphic arrows present a beautiful, if baffling (for the uninitiated) picture. We see wigs without actors, blood-stained props from tragedies, walls ...

...while staring into that bright red bucket, vomiting every hour on the hour, for fifteen hours straight, that I started to think how strange, families, suburbia, life, vomit and in particular, Christmas…really was.