Framed Perspectives

Slim Aarons defined “the good life” through five decades of observed, unstaged moments by the pool. Today's resort photographers are building something different from the same sun and turquoise water, and knowing the difference changes which one belongs in your home.

France is marking 200 years since Niépce's first surviving photograph with a year of exhibitions. But the retrospectives actually shaping how collectors think about photography this year belong to Martin Parr, and what they reveal has less to do with anniversaries than with what makes a body of work worth owning.