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.
Photography
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.
News
Photographs Capture Chaos at the Capitol
Blogger and cultural observer Bucky Turco shares his images and insight from the insurrection at the US Capitol yesterday.
Art
“The World I Wish People Knew”: Photographer Cara Romero on Redefining Contemporary Native art
This year, Romero will be installing photographs of California’s Indigenous peoples on billboards and public places throughout Los Angeles.
News
The Unsettling Story of a Creative Commons Photo Scam
Photographer Kyle Cassidy released one of his images into the public domain. Years later, someone else took credit for it.
News
The Unsettling Story of a Creative Commons Photo Scam
Photographer Kyle Cassidy released one of his images into the public domain. Years later, someone else took credit for it.
Art
Mary Mattingly Confronts Climate Change With Utopic Resourcefulness
Mattingly's landscape photographs evoke each site's geologic timeline.
News
What Is Possibly the World’s Longest Exposure Photograph Has Been Discovered Inside a Beer Can
The image depicts 2,953 arced trails of the sun rising and falling during a period of eight years and one month.
Books
Reynaldo Rivera's Photographs of a Los Angeles That No Longer Exists
In the 1980s and ’90s, Rivera photographed drag performers in Latinx gay bars, house parties in pre-gentrified Echo Park, and performers like Sade, Vaginal Davis, and Chaka Khan.