Once upon a time, there was but One Cat Photographer to Rule Them All.
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Mary Ellen Mark’s Turbulent and Hopeful Narratives
Mary Ellen Mark’s devotion to her subjects and their stories emerges immediately in both Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, a new book published by Aperture of Mark’s photographs, and Picture This: New Orleans, Mary Ellen Mark’s Last Assignment, a current exhibit at the Governors Island Art Fair.
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Through a Lens, Inquisitively: Modern Photo Visions, of and from Japan
Most photographs of real-life events tend to be documentary by nature, but the kind of photographic image-making that makes a point of approaching its subjects with an “objective” viewpoint and a for-posterity sense of purpose — can such photos ever convey a truly neutral position vis-à-vis their subjects?
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Tokyo, Mon Amour: The City in Photos, as Monster and Muse
In East Asia, sprawling, dynamic, constantly changing Tokyo has a long history as a seductive subject and muse for innovative camera artists, but that tradition and the remarkable, often unexpected images it has produced are still not so widely known in the West outside a relatively small but growing community of collectors, curators and photography buffs.
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Photographing the Universal Drama of the School Playground
Even if you don’t remember a lick of elementary school classwork, it’s likely the joys and terrors of the schoolyard linger.
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Catching Subway Riders in the Act of Reading
For bibliophiles and generally nosy people, one of the worst things about the rise of e-books and e-readers is that they don’t have distinct covers.