Photography

Poverty and exuberance in Manchester’s slums

A new exhibition shows China’s history through photobooks

Simon Willis on an auction of NASA photographs

And a poignant moment with Iris Murdoch

A new exhibition in Boston explores a personal photo essay about American segregation

Kodak’s Tri-X is the film the great photographers love. Anton Corbijn, Don McCullin and Sebastião Salgado tell Bryan Appleyard why

Photographs of the aftermath at Tate Modern

A photographic radical, back on show in Philadelphia

For 70 years, this picture has been used to tell the same story—of inequality, class division, “toffs and toughs”. But what was the story behind it? Ian Jack investigates