Everything Is Photograph offers a sweeping and intimate portrait of André Kertész, tracing the life and work of a man whose vision helped define modern photography. Born in Budapest in 1894, Kertész’s journey carried him from the cafés of Jazz Age Paris to the bustling streets of wartime New York, through periods of acclaim, obscurity, and reinvention. This biography presents a detailed exploration of both his personal and professional life, revealing the hardships, triumphs, and enduring curiosity that shaped his art.
Kertész was a pioneer in embracing new technologies and approaches. He was among the first to see the potential of the Leica camera, forever linking the instrument to street photography, and he helped establish the language of subjective photojournalism, producing one of the earliest influential photo essays. Over his career, he captured more than 100,000 images, each marked by a distinctive combination of formal rigor, emotional depth, and subtle humor. His work explores human connection, self-expression, and the mysteries embedded in everyday life, making ordinary moments resonate with extraordinary clarity.
The biography delves into Kertész’s complex personal history, from the traumas of World War I to the shadow of the Holocaust, and from tangled romances to professional rivalries with contemporaries like Brassaï and mentorship of figures like Robert Capa. It illuminates the resilience and adaptability that allowed him to navigate both the glamour and the hardships of the photographic world, including his years working for House & Garden and his later resurgence during the 1960s photo boom.
Through archival research and interviews, the book brings Kertész vividly to life: a man of Old-World charm, occasional mischief, and profound artistic insight. Everything Is Photograph is not only a biography but a meditation on photography itself — a medium capable of narrating identity, exploring perception, and connecting people across time and place. It immerses readers in the aesthetics, culture, and humanism of a lost photographic era, while celebrating the enduring influence of one of the medium’s most innovative and generous visionaries.
Eastman Kodak, the company which pioneered so much in photography from the 1880s through the 1960s, could have owned digital imaging; the very first electronic camera was born in one of Kodak's labs. Instead, they missed that boat, going into a tailspin that resulted in their eventual bankruptcy. Tied to that economic engine, the fortunes of Rochester, New York, the archetypal company town where Kodak had its headquarters, fell as "Big Yellow" collapsed. Catherine Leutenegger's attentive, deadpan studies of Rochester today explore the face of a city once central to photography but now irrelevant and adrift.
Photographed in London, Near Dark ventures into a mysterious territory, reflecting a less harmonious city mood, a fever dream of anxiety and unpredictability. London is just as alluring as ever but now everyone is taking shelter, keeping out of sight.
I constantly wonder where I truly belong. This series explores the psychological impact of
relocation and emigration that I have experienced throughout my life. The title is inspired by the
keyboard shortcut I frequently use when typing in Japanese, and it serves as an indirect
representation of my national background.
Agony in the Garden is the second monograph by Magnum Photographer, Lúa Ribeira, created
in her native country of Spain between 2021 to 2023 in the peripheries of Madrid, Málaga,
Granada and Almería. Inspired by the revealing potential of contemporary counter-culture,
she has collaborated with young people to make images that reflect on the alienation and
uncertainty of the present era, evoking a dystopian landscape suspended in time, one that
appears both contemporary and ancient while reflecting the signs of contemporary youth
movements and how they convey the alienation and uncertainty of the present-era
This series of black-and-white portraits depicts the people around whom Denis Dailleux grew up, between love and hate. Created when he was 25 years old and full of doubt, the project marked a turning point in the photographer’s work.
Anastasia Samoylova’s Atlantic Coast is more than a photography book—it is a journey through the evolving landscape of the United States, both literal and metaphorical. Retracing U.S. Route 1 from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine, seventy years after Berenice Abbott first documented the road, Samoylova offers a meditation on the tensions between nostalgia and progress, myth and reality, that define the American experience.
Gumsucker laments the loss of untamed Australian wilderness to civilization, ever encroaching, domesticating the land and spirit. It is a ghost story of sorts, populated by withering vestiges and isolated souls. Its title, drawn from the archaic term once used to describe native-born European Australians, also recalls ‘The Gumsucker’s Dirge,’ a 19th-century poem mourning the erasure of wilderness as the frontier was pushed further out and the dream of an untouched wilderness became increasingly inaccessible.
Having spent decades immersed in photography, encountering Daido Moriyama’s work is always a jolt to the senses—but Quartet, the new Getty Publication release edited by Mark Holborn, takes that jolt to another level. This isn’t just a photobook; it’s a journey into the formative pulse of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.
Janet Delaney has always been drawn to the ways work shapes people’s lives, families, and communities. In her latest book, she turns her lens closer to home, retracing a week she spent in 1980 with her father, a beauty salesman on the verge of retirement. What began as a daughter’s curiosity became a vivid portrait of long days on the road, endless conversations, and the quiet determination behind a lifetime of providing for others.
Through humor, candor, and empathy, Delaney’s photographs reveal not just the hustle of a salesman, but also the love that fueled it. To learn more about this project and her reflections on it, we asked her a few questions.
Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda is a new photobook by photographer Jan Banning and journalist Dick Wittenberg, with an essay on forgiveness by philosopher Marjan Slob. It addresses the genocide in Rwanda, the reconciliation programs that followed, and presents 18 joint portraits of survivors and perpetrators.
