Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera depicts how the artist’s life and ideas cemented her place as a champion and influencer of culture.
Photography
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Photo Sale Supports Earthquake Relief in Turkey and Syria
Five photographers with personal connections to Turkey are selling more than 200 prints to benefit aid efforts.
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Documenting the Black History Not Taught in Classrooms
The photographs in Renata Cherlise’s Black Archives capture Black people experiencing moments of love, joy, rest, leisure, and everyday life.
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Views From the End of Human Expansion
Five Southern California Views taps into the mythology of the West as an expanse for the imagination, only to decenter the human presence.
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Photographer Captures His Journey With Terminal Cancer
Stephen L. Starkman’s moving book about his encounter with mortality leaves a place for perseverance and hope.
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What Was Hiroshima Like Before the Atom Bomb?
Wakaji Matsumoto’s photographs provide a glimpse of a world in the midst of transition into the next stage of global capitalism and Westernization.
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Getty Institute Acquires Trove of British Raj-Era Photography
The collection includes many images of the region as seen through a European lens and the Western gaze.
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Juan Fuentes’s Lexicon of Longing
Born in Mexico and raised in Denver, the artist has never been able to visit his family on the other side of the border.
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Remembering the Women of the Black Panther Party
Comrade Sisters centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party.
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Cara Romero Stands Defiant Against Institutional Categorization
The artist’s photographs shine a light on the unseen, resisting colonial categorization and institutional biases around art made by Native artists.
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Central Park Architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s Tree Politics
Photographer Stanley Greenberg’s new book takes as its subjects those aspects of Olmsted landscapes that took decades to come into their own — the trees.
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William Eggleston’s Long Road to Recognition
A new book presents nearly 100 previously unseen photos from the artist’s influential, once-controversial body of work.