The Easel

3rd November 2026

Late-Arriving Pictures

Andrew Witt | Los Angeles Review of Books | 29th October 2026

Images of jazz musicians by Lisette Model showcase her “plainspoken” style. DeCarava’s jazz images were different. His work does not provide a standard narrative about Black experience. Famous musicians are shown alongside “garment workers and labourers”. When manipulated in the darkroom to achieve “an astonishing range of tonal gradations and transitions”, the images become “elusive”. This is DeCarava exploring whether “sound can acquire a visible form”.

27th October 2026

Sunil Gupta’s candid camera

Michael Delgado | Apollo | 12th September 2026

New York’s Stonewell gay riots in 1969 were liberating for Gupta, allowing him to identify freely as a gay photographer. It was a period that involved “cruising with a camera” producing a mix of candid street photography and posed scenes. Returning to India and its “depressing” restrictions on gays, he recorded how gay men discreetly “revealed themselves”. Now somewhat less preoccupied with identity, Gupta seems pleased he can turn his lens to “a study of life”. Images are here.

Europe’s Living Rooms

Staff | Magnum Photos | 5th October 2026

Strictly speaking, the linked piece is less an analysis of an artwork than simply a celebration. A group of photographers set out to document communal venues that foster social interactions. At a time of anxiety about the impact of social media and the online world on communities, here is a set of quietly reassuring images to be enjoyed.

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