The artist captured compelling pictures of celebrities and politicians, dogs just being dogs, and the happenstance whimsy of daily life.
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Carla Williams Takes Ownership of the Gaze
Williams’s scholarly interest in the Black female form paralleled a decades-long private photographic practice that began in the 1980s.
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Jeremy Dennis Makes a Farce of White Guilt
Dennis’s exaggerated scenarios compel non-Indigenous viewers to confront racial dynamics that many people in the images choose not to see.
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Remembering Gaza Photographer Majd Arandas, Killed by Israeli Airstrikes
The Palestinian artist’s images document and celebrate life in the Gaza Strip, excavating pockets of optimism and resistance amidst loss and destruction.
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Print Sale Benefits Medical Aid in Gaza
Cindy Sherman, Zineb Sedira, and Tanya Habjouqa are among 150 artists offering prints for $125 to support desperately needed humanitarian aid in the besieged city.
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Jay DeFeo Put a Lens Up to the World
Recently discovered work demonstrates DeFeo’s status as a major contemporary photographer.
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NYC Show Puts the Lens on Pet Photography
Both irrational love and endless humor, the hallmarks of life with animals, are rife in an exhibition on view at Fotografiska through January.
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An Abuela’s Infinite Embrace
Argentine human rights activists Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo turned their grief into an ongoing struggle to find the truth about what happened to their children.
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Foliage-Loving Influencers Turn Life in Vermont Town Into Hell
The town of Pomfret is restricting access to a popular photo spot after complaints of excessive traffic, trespassing, and noise.
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Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass
I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am at the Wadsworth Atheneum counters the racist images of Black Americans that were presented in mainstream media in the 19th century.
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Haunting Photographs Document the Erasure of Armenians in Turkey
Andréas Lang’s pictures, now compiled in a new book, convey “what the Turkish state wants people to remember and what it wants them to forget.”
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Museum Lifts Ban on Photographing Picasso’s “Guernica”
You can now take a picture of the famous work at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, but don’t even think about using a selfie stick.
