Books
Demolishing the Categories of Word and Image
An anthology of poems, fiction, and translated essays combined with images explores the role of memory and the visual.
Photography
Books
A Fresh Look at Flowers in Photography
Can photographers capture the vitality of flowers compellingly, innovatively, and beautifully? A new book gives a resounding yes.
Opinion
Enough With the Selfies; Look at the Art
Museum guard Dereck Stafford Mangus urges museumgoers to put their phones down, just for a minute.
Books
A Decade Among the Mennonites
Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families.
News
Ukrainian Photographer’s Show Canceled Over Neo-Nazism Accusations
Dmytro “Orest” Kozatsky, a member of the Azov Battalion, said his social media posts depicting hate symbols were “taken out of context.”
Books
The Shadowy Past of San Francisco
Mimi Plumb's photos of 1980s and ’90s San Francisco look at the dissonance between an expanding metropolis and its surrounding environment.
Books
N.V. Parekh and the Rise of Studio Photography in East Africa
Isolde Brielmaier’s book I Am Sparkling illustrates how Parekh’s studio became a place for sitters to assert their agency in a changing world.
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Misunderstood Oeuvre
Critics who have deemed the photographer couple’s work outmoded and detached are simply wrong.
Art
The Many Faces of Ukrainian Photography Today
In Ukrainian Photography Today the now and then come into intimate contact to reveal a story about one’s roots and uprootedness.
Art
LA Parking Lot Becomes a Screening Room for Street Photography
Projecting LA featured honest portraits of the city by 35 street, documentary, news, and student photographers — with not a single Hollywood sign in sight.
Art
Dead People Prefer Photography, Apparently
Shannon Taggart’s book SÈANCE pictures the supernatural occurrences in the lives of Spiritualists, seekers, mediums, and other occult practitioners.
Art
The Spookiest Images of Early Photography
From creepy Victorian post-mortem portraits to Félix Nadar's horrifying shot of the Paris Catacombs, we’re definitely never sleeping again.