Tag Archives: Art and design

Guardian sports photographer Tom Jenkins has been attending many top level matches behind closed doors since football restarted and like many of us keeps thinking about the lack of fans at the games. To mark their significance the Guardian is offering readers the chance to buy exclusive prints from Tom’s …

Exhibition of the week Jon Rafman: Nine Eyes of Google Street ViewImages appropriated from Google Street View give an eerily intimate and creepily intrusive vision of life on Earth.• Sprüth Magers online until 25 July. Also showing Annie Leibovitz Photographs of a still, silent quarantine experience that are being sold …

A Mini appears to have careered off the road and been abandoned in heavy snow near Buxton, in Derbyshire. The Guardian photographer Don McPhee captured the image in January 1979. It was published on the front page of the paper on 29 January that year, alongside a report that troops …

At the age of just 10, Jack Nicklaus carded 51 for the first nine holes of golf he ever played. By the time of this charming photograph at the World Match Play Championships in 1966, Nicklaus, then aged 26, had become a six-time major winner, the first man to retain …

Imagine the perils of riding a penny farthing at high speed while wearing only a crude helmet. Suffice it to say, they were known as “boneshakers” for good reason. With front wheels which measured up to two metres in diameter, skilled riders could reach speeds up to 20mph if they …

Just two weeks left of the terrific Lucian Freud self-portraits show at the Royal Academy. But fear not, Freud fans: in two years there will be a major retrospective of his work at the National Gallery. Yet to be officially announced, the exhibition will include around 70 works of the …

Photograph: Peter Johns/The Guardian The Guardian photographer Peter Johns captures a joyful winter scene on a frozen pond on Wimbledon Common, London, in January 1970. Johns, who died in 2017 aged 86, brought a distinctive artistic approach to his work. He was part of a new wave of British photojournalists …

The Guardian photographer Murdo MacLeod recently took a morning drive around Loch Tummel, north-west of Pitlochry, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland – a stunning, narrow freshwater loch surrounded by forest, trails and breathtaking views. “I was on a mission to capture the autumn colours,” he says. “There was a light …

With the birds front-lit against a darkening sky, this photograph of swans at Linlithgow in Scotland may look like a glorious nature scene, but the reality behind it is a little different. On the day it was taken – 6 April 2006 – bird flu was found in a dead …

The dramatic gothic ruins of Whitby Abbey are captured here at sunset by the Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe. The still-glowing sky illuminates the empty windows of the abbey church and is reflected – along with the building, in sharp focus – in the small, still pond in the foreground. The …