Dmitri Poltavski

Book Review: For more than 40 years, Mikhailov has used photography to document and understand "real-life" in Soviet and post-Soviet societies.

Ever-relentless in his pursuit of joy with photography, Stephen Gill chose to collaborate with a physical place this time — not only photographing it, but also then burying his photographic prints in the same general location to see what the place would add (or subtract). The results are, well, earthy and conceptual, to say the least.

Huis Marseille celebrates its recent expansion with a blockbuster exhibition centered on the idea that today's photographers are animated by "a desire to visualize what lies behind the visible and to reveal the component parts of which our perception is actually made." Here is a preview of work by several young Dutch photographers.

The hypermarkets of France sometimes look like consumerism on steroids. Photographer Denis Darzacq takes it one step further with his series of "shoppers" flying and floating through the aisles like superheros or astronauts. And yes, they are real photographs, no tricks.