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The text in In Cars: On Diana, like its images, is written in impressionistic brushstrokes, free verse couplets that range from the poignant and personal—like when Shapton recounts her mother telling her “You and Lady Diana are the same star sign”—to the aphoristic, “Photogenics, like wit, is a talent of timing.” The late appearance of the poetic interlude encourages readers of the book to view the paintings with their own associations of Princess Diana before reconsidering them alongside the text, which is itself a reconsideration of Diana as icon, Princess, and woman. The book is both a love letter to Diana...

Takashi Homma publishes Portrait of J, a powerful and poetic visual narrative that explores the identity of contemporary Japan by portraying the diverse faces, lives, and emotions of its people across regions and generations. by Felicity Carter

Cult Photographer Zora Sicher Just Published Her First Monograph. It Marks the End of Her Career as We Know It.

A lot has changed since 2011. Zora Sicher turned 16 that year; she’d traded Brooklyn’s tween punk-band circuit for the darkroom and was already well on her way to becoming one of her generation’s foremost documenters of intimacy, whether bodily or emotional.

A year later, she would get her first tattoo with a friend, Eden. That matching ink is documented in the image, shared exclusively with CULTURED above, that closes Sicher’s first monograph, Geography, out this month with Dashwood Books. The tome sees the image-maker, who...

The photographer Zora Sicher began taking pictures at 14 as a high school student in Brooklyn. Those early images capture the charged intimacy of adolescence: a friend leaning into the mirror to smudge on eye shadow before a night out, another drifting to sleep in the late afternoon sun. That tender and unguarded sensibility has shaped Sicher's work since. Her new monograph,

"Geography," published by Dashwood Books, gathers 14 years of images into what she calls a "nonchronological map" of her practice and the people who shaped it. The earliest photograph dates to 2011; the most recent was taken in...