Art Review
The Trailblazing 20th-Century Photographer History Forgot
Consuelo Kanaga, one of the US’s first female photojournalists, counted Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, and Berenice Abbott as her peers.
Photography
Art Review
The Contested History of American Labor
An exhibition shows that our beleaguered present is not apocalyptically singular but the continuation of one long, long fight.
News
Devastating Photo of Gaza Child Amputee Wins Top Global Award
Palestinian journalist Samar Abu Elouf earned the World Press Photo of the Year award for her image of nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both arms in an Israeli attack.
News
Russian Photographer Disinvited From World Press Photo Ceremony
Georgian journalists argued that Mikhail Tereshchenko, a staffer for a Russian state-backed media outlet, should not have received the award for his photos of the Tbilisi protests.
Interview
Aline Manoukian and the Specter of War Photography
The Lebanese photojournalist who famously portrayed a Palestinian militiaman holding a kitten discusses her transition into photo editing and the image that changed her life.
Art Review
Weegee, the Pop Artist That Never Was
By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer occupies an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody.
Art
Judy Linn Casts a Solitary Eye on the World
Linn’s camera doesn’t register her absence, but rather registers her solitariness from the world in which she is immersed.
News
Italian Photographer Gusmano Cesaretti’s Chronicles of East LA
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired 238 boxes of the artist's images, negatives, books, and ephemera.
Art
Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Labyrinths of Desire
Working with, alongside, and against conventions of portraiture photography, the artist manipulates the gaps between image and object.
Book Review
Dona Ann McAdams’s Repository of Memory
The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box.
Art
The Biting Satire of Eleanor Antin's Photography
Antin deconstructs both the self and the image as fraught in her staged photographs, and the results are less a punchline than a biting satire.
Art
What Comes After the End?
John Divola asks us: What am I looking at? Is it real? Where does that distinction now lie, given the technology required to make a photograph now?