Art
“Naked Bits” Jigsaw Puzzles Celebrate Bodies Through Dynamic Photographs
There’s nothing sexier than building anticipation, and nothing is a slower reveal than a jigsaw puzzle.
Photography
Books
100 Women Street Photographers Freeze the Exquisitely Mundane
A new book compiles unstaged public photographs by 100 artists of all ages, hailing from 31 countries spanning Ghana to Iran.
Books
“They Feel Like a Time Capsule”: Portraits of New York Commuters, Pre-Pandemic
David Rothenberg photographed passersby between 2019 and March 2020 at a subway station in Jackson Heights, Queens.
News
See the Captivating Images From This Year’s Sony World Photography Awards
The COVID-19 pandemic dominates this year’s entries with images capturing life under lockdown and the resilience of people worldwide.
Art
The Fluctuating Truth of Documentary Images
False and varying claims about documentary images made by Candida Höfer and Dorothea Lange ultimately create a deeply malleable “unsettled subject.”
News
Check Out These Award-winning Works From the Leica Women Foto Project
Series by Matika Wilbur, Karen Zusman, and Anna Boyiazis were selected for the second annual award, announced today on International Women’s Day.
Art
A Photographer Documents Post-war Artsakh
Scout Tufankjian spent a month in post-war Artsakh to witness the controversial ceasefire that would involve the removal of lands from the sovereignty of the Republic of Artsakh.
Books
Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life
The artist's landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.
Art
Looking Inwards: Quarantine Self-Portraits From India
For some photographers, they became their own muse, as self-portraits became a coping mechanism to process emotions during the prolonged quarantine.
Books
M. Sharkey’s Luminous Photos of Queer Kids in the US
The light in Sharkey’s images doesn’t so much cover his subjects but illuminates them from within.
Art
The Very First Photograph of a US Presidential Inauguration
The image dates from the 1850s, when the recent discovery of the wet-plate collodion process allowed for crisp captures of landmark moments to be faithfully documented and easily disseminated.
Art
Rudy Burckhardt’s Innocent Eye
Burckhardt was never surreptitious; he did not hide his camera, and his subjects often knew they were being photographed.