Art
Brandon Lattu’s Post-Camera Photography Employs Scanners, Photoshop, and Computer Programs
Surrealist images of a Rice Krispies box or Yukon Gold potato explore how data is transformed into the visual language called art.
Photography
Art
A Remarkable Online Show of Young Photography
What is wonderful about the online photography exhibition What Have We Stopped Hiding? is that one is given entrée to the internal monologue of the artists featured in the show.
News
An Unbelievably Tiny Turtle And Other Stunning Underwater Photos
The winners of this year’s Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest prove that life is indeed better under the sea.
Books
A Portrait of the Last Six Years of US Politics
Brink is not a fun book, and it shouldn’t be.
News
This Missouri County's Redesigned Seal Is a Photoshop Atrocity
The design appears to have been put together in a 1995 version of Microsoft Paint.
Art
How the Face of Rio de Janeiro Radically Changed Over Five Centuries
A new digital atlas, imagineRio, reveals how the city’s urban evolution has unfolded from its 16th century roots to the present day.
Art
Remembering a Congolese Photographer's Images of Post-Liberation Congo
In Maurice “Pellosh” Bidilou’s pictures there is a palpable interplay, a playful interaction between photographer and subject, and the sense of a narrative at work.
Opinion
Why Does Instagram Keep Allowing My Images to Be Stolen?
It seems like my plum photo can be used to sell almost anything: beauty products, nutritional supplements, mental health coaching, fashion, concept stores.
Books
A History of Utopian Nudist Clubs in Buttoned-up Britain
In the mid-1900s, nudists in Britain believed they could improve national health and remedy buttoned-up social norms and rigid class divisions.
Books
Through Photography, a Book Tries to Capture the Slow Creep of History
For the past nine years, Michael Sherwin visited and photographed ancient earthworks, sacred landforms, documented archeological sites, and contested battlegrounds of Native American people.
News
Massive Archive of Work by Photographer James Van Der Zee Lands at Two NYC Museums
The archive kicks off an initiative by the Met Museum and the Studio Museum to conserve and digitize his works, and research the context of his photographs, his singular photographic techniques, and his life.
News
This Astrophotographer’s Strikingly Detailed Image of the Sun Is Going Viral
Andrew McCarthy used a modified telescope to take over 150,000 images of the sun, combining them to create the stunningly crisp photo.