Striding hopefully towards a new future, a couple from the Caribbean arrive in Britain, the day before a crackdown on immigration beginsThis picture of a young couple arriving at Gatwick airport from the Caribbean on 30 June 1962 was taken on the eveni…
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – a man of mystery
This insightful biography of the surrealist painter contends that to his peers he was a hero and outsider who resisted symbolic readings of his artUnlike his surrealist contemporaries, René Magritte tended to keep Freud at a distance from his work – th…
The big picture: brutal intimacy on the streets of Tokyo
Bruce Gilden’s shot of a Japanese businessman carries the same menace as some of his more overtly violent subjectsBruce Gilden, infamous for his up-close, flashgun New York street photography, visited Japan several times in the 1990s. His pictures of T…
John Cooper Clarke: ‘I draw the line at flapjack, falafel and tripe’
The poet relates tales of his childhood, run-ins with Bernard Manning – and explains why he wishes Ken Loach would lighten upDr John Cooper Clarke, Salford’s favourite son, arrives in the whitewashed upper room of St John near London’s Smithfield meat …
Cedella Marley: ‘The mission is to spread Daddy’s music to every corner of the Earth’
As a new musical about the life of Bob Marley prepares to celebrate his spirit and classic songs, Marley’s daughter, plus the director and star of Get Up, Stand Up!, discuss his extraordinary legacyCedella Marley was 13 years old when the man she still…
The big picture: standing out from the crowd in New Delhi, 1984
A lifelong passion for India and its people is evident in Mitch Epstein’s colourful new collectionThe photographer Mitch Epstein fell in love with the idea of India long before he went there. As a young man from small-town New England, he watched Ravi …
The day before 9/11: what was life like before the world changed?
The age of Big Brother and famous football victories seems like another time. But did the terrorists’ planes, as it seemed, really come out of nowhere?There is always an eeriness in the archives of days that immediately precede tragedy. The newspapers …
The big picture: the black body redefined
Pioneering young black photographer Dana Scruggs’s celebration of movement and formThe headline act at this summer’s photography festival in Arles is an exhibition devoted to the young black photographers who are – literally – changing the face (and bo…
The big picture: a moment of downtime by cinematographer Roger Deakins
The Oscar-winning film-maker’s image, shot on a vintage train in Germany, features in a new book of his off-duty documentary photographyLong before he was a cinematographer, Roger Deakins was a photographer. The film-maker’s eye that has earned Deakins…
Neuroscientist Anil Seth: ‘We risk not understanding the central mystery of life’
The professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience discusses his work to develop a scientific explanation for how the brain conjures consciousnessFor centuries, philosophers have theorised about the mind-body question, debating the relationship …