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Our artist of the week 208: Fiona Tan
Tan’s haunting video portraits and collections of other people’s snapshots span countless continents and lifetimes


Photograph: Courtesy of the artist, Frith St Gallery and the Photographers’ Gallery, London

    Our artist of the week 208: Fiona Tan

    Tan’s haunting video portraits and collections of other people’s snapshots span countless continents and lifetimes

    Photograph: Courtesy of the artist, Frith St Gallery and the Photographers’ Gallery, London

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    ‘She was carrying a tape recorder so she could listen to Mexican music’. Graciela Iturbide’s best photograph
To browse all the photo in our Best shot series, visit the site.

    ‘She was carrying a tape recorder so she could listen to Mexican music’. Graciela Iturbide’s best photograph

    To browse all the photo in our Best shot series, visit the site.

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    Neil Libbert: the faces that came to define an era – in pictures
The National Portrait Gallery’s solo exhibition of photographs by Neil Libbert celebrates his 55 years as an award-winning photojournalist for the Observer, the Guardian and many other publications. So often in the right place at the right time, Libbert has captured many of today’s biggest names at the start – and also at the height – of their careers. Here we tell some of the stories behind these compelling portraits.
Photograph: GEORGE BEST 20 October 1965. Neil Libbert/National Portrait Gallery, London

    Neil Libbert: the faces that came to define an era – in pictures

    The National Portrait Gallery’s solo exhibition of photographs by Neil Libbert celebrates his 55 years as an award-winning photojournalist for the Observer, the Guardian and many other publications. So often in the right place at the right time, Libbert has captured many of today’s biggest names at the start – and also at the height – of their careers. Here we tell some of the stories behind these compelling portraits.

    Photograph: GEORGE BEST 20 October 1965. Neil Libbert/National Portrait Gallery, London

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Tom Archer’s best photograph: secret Sheffield
Each week we ask photographers to come clean on how they created their favourite works. This week Tom Archer: ‘I have no idea why she was pulling the curtains like that. It’s one of the hidden narratives of surbubia’.

    Tom Archer’s best photograph: secret Sheffield

    Each week we ask photographers to come clean on how they created their favourite works. This week Tom Archer: ‘I have no idea why she was pulling the curtains like that. It’s one of the hidden narratives of surbubia’.

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    Photo: William Mumler, Bronson Murray in a Trance with the Spirit of Ella Bonner, 1872.
Spirit photographers were prevalent in the 1800s when seances were popular and the greatest ghost stories of all time, such as Dickens’s The Signalman, were being written. They managed to get people to pay for images such as this obvious double exposure. Here are some more classic fake photos
Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    Photo: William Mumler, Bronson Murray in a Trance with the Spirit of Ella Bonner, 1872.

    Spirit photographers were prevalent in the 1800s when seances were popular and the greatest ghost stories of all time, such as Dickens’s The Signalman, were being written. They managed to get people to pay for images such as this obvious double exposure. Here are some more classic fake photos

    Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Photojournalist Ed Giles explores the new Burma – in pictures
Political, economic and social reforms are reshaping the country of Burma, and Getty photographer Ed Giles has been there to document them. After a nominally civilian government took power in March 2011, the changes it has instituted have spurred hopes of a new democratic era for the south-east Asian nation, as it begins slowly to open up to the international community.
Flick through Ed’s gallery here

    Photojournalist Ed Giles explores the new Burma – in pictures

    Political, economic and social reforms are reshaping the country of Burma, and Getty photographer Ed Giles has been there to document them. After a nominally civilian government took power in March 2011, the changes it has instituted have spurred hopes of a new democratic era for the south-east Asian nation, as it begins slowly to open up to the international community.

    Flick through Ed’s gallery here

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    Bombs, bowlers and babies: Another London at Tate Britain - in pictures
As the Olympics kicks off, Tate Britain is hosting an exhibition of images by international photographers that capture London life between 1930 and 1980. Another London runs from 27 July to 16 September 2012.
This photograph was taken by Wolfgang Suschitzky near Monument Station, London, 1938.

    Bombs, bowlers and babies: Another London at Tate Britain - in pictures

    As the Olympics kicks off, Tate Britain is hosting an exhibition of images by international photographers that capture London life between 1930 and 1980. Another London runs from 27 July to 16 September 2012.

    This photograph was taken by Wolfgang Suschitzky near Monument Station, London, 1938.

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