Art
Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum aims to move beyond Euro-American historical narrative.
Photography
News
Photographer Captures Built-Up Pandemic Waste Polluting the Seas
Şebnem Coşkun is among the winners of the Nature Conservancy's 2021 photo contest, featuring images of landscape, wildlife, people, and water.
Books
Tender Pictures Capture a Gender-confirming Journey
Photographer Fin Serck-Hanssen follows Hedda, a Norwegian in her early 20s, as she travels to undergo cosmetic surgeries and a vaginoplasty.
Art
Finding Zinat Mahal, the Last Dowager Empress of Mughal India
The photograph of Mahal, taken in 1872 while she was interned and dispossessed, raises questions of consent.
Books
Carrie Mae Weems’s Visual Response to Sam Cooke's “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.
Opinion
The Many Problems with Deana Lawson’s Photographs
Lawson’s images, and the ways that she has discussed her process, seem to be actively reproducing the kind of big-dick energy power dynamics of White male artists who also claim mastery over their subject matter.
Books
The Disruptive Architecture of Border Walls
Rafał Milach sharply documents three international border walls and how they impact our sense of identity and memory.
Art
Whimsy and Personality in Early American Photography
An exhibition of cabinet cards at LACMA showcases marketing and personal panache.
Books
A View of Oxford That Evades Its “Ethos of ‘Intellectualism’”
“Oxford has a complex social divide that tends to be ignored,” says photographer Arturo Soto.
Art
The First Museum Exhibition of Brazilian Modernist Photography Outside Brazil
This retrospective of the work from a São Paulo photo club is a reminder that Modernism was not solely a European phenomenon.
Books
For Masahisa Fukase, Cats Were Much More Than Cute
Fukase’s obsession with photographing the people he was close to overwhelmed his subjects and eventually drove them away — so he turned to cats.
Books
An Artist Excavates Her Family’s Pre-Holocaust Story
Sara Davidmann explores the space between what we can know about one of the darkest moments in human history and what is impossible to recover.