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Photographers Working with Opposing Visions, from Holographs to Cyanotypes
A diverse range of unusually young photographers are reflecting on the reality of creating images in a world of extremes.
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The Overlooked Legacy of Oscar Rejlander, Who Elevated Photography to an Art
An exhibition at the Getty Center serves to rectify a century of oversight by highlighting Rejlander’s many innovations.
Books
An Uncompromising Look at Photography and Gender
In Photography after Photography Abigail Solomon-Godeau’s overarching goal is to offer a feminist critique of the art world.
In Brief
Free Stock Photo Database Expands Trans and Non-Binary Representation in Media
Broadly has launched a rich database of 180 stock images, photographed by Zackary Drucker, featuring 15 trans and non-binary models.
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Photographs Enliven the Public and Historic Spaces of an Indian City
This year's Chennai Photo Biennale is spread across the city, with many heritage sites providing layered historical contexts and compelling physical backdrops.
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Documenting the Horrors of America's Opioid Crisis in One of the Hardest-Hit Cities
"I basically went from photographing abandoned houses to photographing abandoned people," artist Jeffrey Stockbridge says about his Kensington Blues series in Philadelphia.
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How Stonewall Broke Through Barriers with Love and Resistance
A New York Public Library exhibition shows how so many people at the time of Stonewall — and after — have been able to live more wholly integrated lives.
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A Probing Look at How We Perform and Present the Self
Show Me As I Want to Be Seen resists imposed and idealized models of being by probing the self — the unstable, performative essence of humanity — and bringing it to life with art.
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Candida Höfer Takes Her Expansive Lens to Mexico
In Mexico foregrounds Höfer's images as records of a site’s architectural and sociopolitical history.
In Brief
The "Queen of Elephants" Photographed in Kenya
Will Burrard-Lucas, the photographer famous for his recent black leopard photos, has captured a series of stunning photos of a big tusker elephant in Kenya.
Art
A Photography Exhibition Corrects a Mainstream Museum's Failure
Our Land, mounted as a reply to a controversial show at the Brooklyn Museum, features contributing artists from North Africa and West Asia and their diasporic communities.
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Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers
Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.