Books
Step Into a Mysterious Photography Studio From the 1850s
Predicting the Past—Zohar Studios: The Lost Years presents the mythical world of a Lower East Side photography studio, founded by an Eastern European Jewish immigrant in the 1850s.
Photography
Art
Photos That Honor the Interior Lives of Diverse Black Women
In her photographs, Katherine Simóne Reynolds suggests that vulnerability is vital to a full sense of self, but it is a luxury that Black women across age and background are perpetually denied.
Film
The Documentarian Who Secured Rare Footage of Helmut Newton at Work
Director Gero von Boehm discusses The Bad and the Beautiful, his new film about the “King of Kink.”
Art
Fantastical Images of Birds From the 2020 Audubon Photography Award
Stunning photographs of birds might be the balm you need during these stressful times.
Art
The Moral Complexity of War Games
An-My Lê is a Vietnamese-born photographer who has portrayed — and participated in — re-enactments of the Vietnam War.
Art
Hauntingly Beautiful Photos for an Anxious Moment
On Instagram, Kana Hashimoto’s images of nocturnal Tokyo unwittingly capture the odd feeling of time itself as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
Books
Bernadette Mayer Evokes the Banality and Urgency of the Quotidian
In Memory, the poet shapes a new visual and textual language that explores the simmering possibilities of consciousness.
Art
The Disregard of Power in Journalistic “Objectivity”
Images of the brutalized, dead, and dying can buy awards and recognition for journalists. When the opportunity presents itself, many rush to participate because they subscribe to the doctrine of redistributing pain as it is, not as it should be.
Art
A Fleeting Glimpse of Francesca Woodman
Woodman was one of the 20th century's great surrealists.
Art
Life on Brooklyn Stoops During the Pandemic
“As the streets emptied, it's like a living room came out — to my eyes a mix of inside and outside,” says photographer Francesca Magnani.
Art
In Nate Lewis’s Hands, Portraits Become Palpable Landscapes
Here are Black bodies in motion which Lewis freezes in time to remake into patterns of overlapping leaves or the stars of shrunken constellations.
Books
A Photographer’s Travels Across the Real American West
In a new book, the photographer Peter Kayafas captures the contemporary soul of a region long obscured by its own enduring myths.