FT Best ofPhotography: our guide to the artists and exhibitions you shouldn’t missPhotography: our guide to the artists and exhibitions you shouldn’t missPhotographer Mark Power documents the collapse of the American dreamFor five years, the British photographer has travelled through a country that is falling into ruin and falling back in timeAndreas Gursky: ‘The perfect image is not something that can be taught’The artist behind the world’s most expensive photograph gives a rare interview to Liz Jobey ahead of a retrospective at London’s Hayward GalleryGeoff Dyer on the influential US photographer Garry WinograndThe acclaimed writer explores the photographer’s vast archiveAcclaimed artist Lorna Simpson on courage, race and gender‘How we think of ourselves as humans becomes broader and broader every generation’A rummage through the V&A’s new photography collectionThe FT has a first look at some of the 400,000 prints, negatives and cameras from the Royal Photographic Society now being installed in LondonCommentator in close-up: David Goldblatt at the PompidouThe photographer’s vivid work, on display in a new retrospective, captures South Africa during and after apartheidMore from this SeriesMorgan Library’s Peter Hujar retrospective: the way of all fleshMortality looms in the portraiture of the photographer, now given a suitably muted display in New YorkLiza Ryan: ‘Antarctica was my teacher’The artist had an epiphany on a trip to the frozen continent; the results are on show in Los AngelesStephen Shore: banality, sprawl and decayThe photographer’s work, on show in New York, provides a bleak, funny vision of the USAdama Jalloh: ‘My identity is embedded in my photographs’The London photographer celebrates the joy and intimacy of her local communityUnwired: humanity’s phone addiction inspired Jacqueline Hassink’s photographs‘Mental silence released something in me that had been numbed by the digital world’