Books
A Book Traces the Evolution of Smooching for the Camera
People Kissing: A Century of Photographs begins in the Victorian era and traces attitudes about kissing from “chaste” to “performance for the camera.”
Photography
Art
The Radical, Gender-Bending Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger
In the German artist and filmmaker's work from the '70s and '80s, Glinda the Good Witch becomes a bearded queen in a shopping mall, and that's just the beginning.
Books
Bringing Back from Obscurity a Jamaican Photographer Who Worked with Duchamp
Enacting a posthumous reassessment, the book Percy Rainford: Duchamp’s “Invisible” Photographer has poignantly rescued the neglected artist Percy Rainford from erasure.
Art
Dawoud Bey Enters the Imaginations of Freedom Seekers
The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.
News
Extremely Rare Black Leopard Immortalized in Stunning Photos
For the first time in years — possibly centuries — the elusive black leopard is caught on camera by photographer Will Burrard-Lucas.
Art
Photographs of Women That Capture Ancestral Trauma
In Yes, and the body has memory, a group of women photographers grapples with notions of trauma, family, ancestral connections, and the female body.
Art
An Itinerant Photographer's Diverse Portraits of the Turn-of-the-Century American South
The Nasher Museum of Art exhibits the portrait photography of Hugh Mangum, whose glass plate negatives were salvaged from a North Carolina barn.
Books
Photographs of Fatherly Intimacy Don’t Capture the Whole Picture
Fathers provides an idealized portrait of Black fatherhood, without insights into how one gets through the muck and mire of daily life to find the joy we see here.
Art
The Poetry of Eileen Myles’s Intimate, Imperfect Instagram Photos
Myles’s photographs don’t feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
Announcement
Havana Street Photography Tour with Master Photographer Federico Savini
Tour participants are invited to exhibit a selection of their photographs in a group show at the Pratt SCPS Gallery. Application deadline is January 10.
Art
A Pioneering Photographer's Legacy In Algae
In 1843, Anna Atkins created the first book illustrated with photography. It took over a century for her pioneering work to be recognized.
Art
A Pioneering Photographer's Legacy In Algae
In 1843, Anna Atkins created the first book illustrated with photography. It took over a century for her pioneering work to be recognized.