Art
How to See Palestine Whole
It is crucial for us to see how and why European and American images of Palestine have historically distorted the realities of this region.
Photography
Art
When Gordon Parks Photographed the Life of a Brazilian Boy and Sparked Debate
Published in Life Magazine, the images of the sick and impoverished twelve-year-old Flávio da Silva prompted an outpouring of letters and offers of financial assistance.
Art
Photographing the Roots of Nationalism in American Youth
Sarah Blesener photographs American kids — between 8 and 18 years old — training in US patriotic programs, where American history lessons overlap with bible study sessions and military training.
Art
In Garry Winogrand’s City, a Colorful Kaleidoscope Comes Alive
In Garry Winogrand's Color, color slides wink in and out of existence as images are paired in small visual novellas.
Books
A Black-and-White World Beneath the Ocean
"The images in this book are a reflection of what I hear beneath the waves," photographer Christian Vizl writes in Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves, his stunning book of undersea photography.
Art
The Women Photojournalists Who Blazed Trails in the 1940s and '50s
An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society presents the work of six female photographers who worked for LIFE magazine during its golden age.
Art
Photographing the Personal Through the Murky Frame of the Political
The second annual Latin American Foto Festival, organized by the Bronx Documentary Center, gathers ten photographers eloquently using photography as journalistic evidence, personal catharsis, and cultural celebration.
Art
Dismantling Beauty Through Extreme Self-Portraiture
Artist Mari Katayama uses objects both to reference her body and to submerge the viewer in a world where the expected limits of the bodily form are reimagined.
Art
In Hungary, an Online Photo Archive Fights Revisionist History
Free to access and run with a high level of transparency and public input, Fortepan has collected over 100,000 photos taken by Hungarians during the 20th century.
Books
A Photographer Sees a Prophecy of Trump's America in Atlantic City
Brian Rose's Atlantic City connects what Trump did in that city as a businessman to what he's doing to the US as president.
Books
A Photographer Sees a Prophecy of Trump's America in Atlantic City
Brian Rose's Atlantic City connects what Trump did in that city as a businessman to what he's doing to the US as president.
Art
Tilda Swinton Curates Photography Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Swinton’s photography exhibition at Aperture, based on Woolf’s iconic novel, Orlando, does not challenge our imperious need to classify bodies, but is definitely one worth seeing.