Art
10,000 Photos Document Alvin Ailey’s Groundbreaking Dances
The collection of wonderful photographs, now online, chronicles the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1961 to 1994.
Photography
Art
Why a Photo Exhibit of Objects Seized at Border Control Feels Sanitized
Tom Kiefer’s aim — to document atrocity — is clear. But his exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center raises a number of important ethical and legal questions about whose stories he tells, and how.
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.