Photography

Books

A Photographer Entranced by Small-Town America

In his portraits of Pennsylvania's small towns and cities, Niko J. Kallianiotis provides both a detached and deeply curious view of a part of the US that is often glossed over by the popular imagination.

Art

In Las Vegas, an Artist's Neon-Tinged Compositions Riff on Social Media Aesthetics

Though social media and the artsy sensibilities of ad marketing are cribbing the same aesthetic ideas, the details of Mikayla Whitmore's photography are distinctly unique and homegrown.

Art

Reflecting on Shirin Neshat’s Career With the Artist’s Words

Neshat shares why she moved away from still photography to video, and why she thinks her work feels “very relevant” today.

Art

The Urgent and Necessary Images of Shahidul Alam

At the Rubin Museum of Art, Truth to Power spotlights Alam's tireless documentation of over 40 years of struggle and change in his native Bangladesh.

Art

Removing Suicide as the Filter for Experiencing Francesca Woodman's Photography

From an uncovered box of photographs and ephemera, a portrayal of Francesca Woodman emerges that sheds new light on the enigmatic photographer.

Art

Portrait of an Invisible Portraitist

I cannot think of another person who has given us such intimate portraits of everyone from Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Jasper Johns to Eartha Kitt, Toni Morrison, and Patti Smith.

Art

As Walls Go Up at Unprecedented Rates, Artists Use Them as Subversive Canvases

The Annenberg Space for Photography maps the complex landscape of walls and rends, openings and sutures, that, to an ever-larger degree, defines our age.

Art

Photography's Potential as Art and Science in Documenting Ancient Egypt

Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene features photographs that focus on ancient monuments and landscapes in Egypt and Algeria from the 1850s, rather than people.

Art

Playful Compositions Center the Margins of Photographs

In Iñaki Bonillas’ work, on view in his first solo show in New York, the margins of photographs shift from negative to positive space, becoming new images in their own right.

Interview

A Photographer and Writer Document the Stories of Queer People Across the US

Devyn Galindo and Hope Steinman-Iacullo charted a three-month journey from Los Angeles to the Florida Keys, stopping along the way to photograph and interview queer people across the country.

Film

How Photographer William Eggleston Finds His Images

The 2005 documentary William Eggleston in the Real World has been restored and re-released on home media. Far from a normal biography, it often plays like a homage to the photographer's work.

Art

Painting Disaster From a Distance

Motohide Takami's images locate the exact distance at which you can contemplate tragedy yet remain untouched by its damage.