• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership

historical photography

Posted inArt

How to See Palestine Whole

by Michael Press September 3, 2019August 30, 2019

It is crucial for us to see how and why European and American images of Palestine have historically distorted the realities of this region.

Posted inArt

The Victorian-era Daguerrotypes of Women Breastfeeding

by Allison Meier February 8, 2017February 8, 2017

In the 19th century, just after the daguerreotype’s introduction in the United States, there was a fashionable moment for portraits of women breastfeeding.

Posted inArt

Jacob Riis’s Photographic Battle with New York’s 19th-Century Slums

by Allison Meier November 17, 2015November 22, 2015

Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding light, he illuminated some of the darkest corners of Manhattan’s impoverished tenements.

Posted inArt

Seeking Humanity in the Barbarity of Brazil’s Slave Past

by Jeremy Polacek November 18, 2013November 21, 2013

At the University of São Paulo’s Museum of Contemporary Art, a new exhibition is interrogating Brazil’s legacy of slavery, disrupting a body of photography that was meant to normalize slavery.

Popular

  • You've Heard of Wordle, But Have You Tried "Artle"?
  • The Worst McMansion Sins, From Useless Pilasters to Hellish Transom Windows
  • Notes and Pictures From Frieze New York
  • Yarn Against the Patriarchy
  • David Attenborough Guides Us to the Time of the Dinosaurs
Sponsored
  • FAT HAM at the Public Theater Spins Shakespeare Into a Celebration of Community
  • Triennial of Photography Hamburg Reflects on Currency
  • NOMA Presents Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans
  • ArtYard’s Ecstatic Decrepitude Features Works by Bread and Puppet Founder Peter Schumann
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2022 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy