Fine Print: Belinda with Rosita. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998 Graphic

Fine Print: Belinda with Rosita. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998 GraphicFor more than two decades, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been photographing the lives of Guillermina and Belinda, two cousins living in rural Argentina, as they move through childhood and youth toward womanhood. Sanguinettis images portray a childhood that is both familiar and exceptional. The farmlands of western Buenos Aires province are a particular mix of the modern and traditional, where life is lived in consonance with animals and rugged

about post-war Germany

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and a layered and diverse Beirut

Selling quickly

in sheer delight

they can capture a great wealth of human behaviour at the water’s edge – since “people are uninhibited [there]

The resulting black and white photographs—accompanied by an extensive text drawn from diary notes and ‘the silt of the memory’—formed Towell’s landmark book

while a man calmly reads his book – a moment that encapsulates how variously people go about their pursuit of happiness

fusing Milach’s photographs with 29 notes from Breiðfjörði on photography

while the country wages Europe’s biggest war of conquest since 1945

Erwitt captured everything from the mundane to the monumental with incredible care

ancient traditions and contemporary society