Photography
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The Freedom to See Rome Anew
An American photographer brings a fresh eye to an ancient city.
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These Photos Are “Pure Fiction”
Talia Chetrit’s heady and eclectic body of work pokes holes in our expectations of what an image can reveal or hide.
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A Friendship in Photography
For decades, Brian Graham, a onetime schoolteacher and oil-rig worker from Cape Breton, took portraits of his friend and mentor, Robert Frank.
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The Love Letters of David Wojnarowicz
The artist’s correspondence with a Parisian boyfriend offers a glimpse of his life before AIDS.
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How the Camera Re-Taught an Artist to See
Jay DeFeo’s career was dominated by a single massive painting. Then photography showed her a way forward.
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These People Used to Live Here?
Before the Chelsea Hotel got swanky, a long-term resident captured the louche building—and its iconic guests—with a black-and-white-film camera.
Cultural Comment
The Visual Power of Black Rest
Black people are generally pictured as doing anything but relaxing—as being attacked, or agitating, or performing. The Black Rest Project aims to widen the lens.
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The Numbing Sameness of War Footage
The proliferation of images via cell phones may have taken away the war photographer’s ability to create a single, arresting, and iconic image, but their accumulation will haunt us.
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Linda Evangelista and the Canny Eye of Steven Meisel
In his heyday, the prolific fashion photographer was interested in models with character and characters he could turn into models, if only for a day.
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Watching the Southern Tip of Manhattan Change, for Forty Years
Barbara Mensch’s new photographic history, “A Falling-Off Place,” begins in the early eighties, and shows a city transformed.
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The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism”
The jarring juxtapositions of Jamie Lee Taete’s collection showcase the sometimes fine line between gimmickry and genuine belief.
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Friendship and Gender Rebellion in Nineties San Francisco
For the queer community pictured in Chloe Sherman’s new photo book, “Renegades,” self-presentation is a kind of sacred tongue.
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Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages
The latest iteration of “New Photography,” at MOMA, situates contemporary life in the Nigerian city as a constant but lively negotiation between the violence of history and the demands of the present.
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A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year
When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her own home. Her series “Till Death Do Us Part” documents that time.
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The Enticing Mysteries of U.F.O. Photography
Among U.F.O. hunters, the lack of visual evidence has always been a vexing problem. That hasn’t stopped them from looking.
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A Tender and Knowing Portrait of Rural Life in Wisconsin
Erinn Springer’s “Dormant Season” pays tribute to a patch of prairie that her family has called home for generations.
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Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life
A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture.
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The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian
For four decades, Clayton Patterson has been the neighborhood’s most dogged artist-archivist.
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The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku
The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff.
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Life Along Israel’s Separation Wall
The photographer Ofir Berman captures two entangled realities.