Art Review
A Spanish Artist Makes Room for Women’s Stories
Mar Caldas fuses research, photography, video, and installation to recognize and vindicate untold stories of women’s lives and labor.
Photography
News
Film Disputes Authorship of Iconic “Napalm Girl” Photo
After a documentary questioned its attribution, World Press Photo said today that it would no longer credit former AP photographer Nick Út for the Vietnam War image.
Opinion
A Sobering Photograph Captures Detained Migrants’ Cry for Help
The aerial image of 34 men spelling out a distress signal from a Texas detention center stands in defiance of a government that wants to crowd our field of vision.
Art Review
Barbara Mensch Tells the Epic Story of the Brooklyn Bridge
The photographer’s vision of New York appears romantic, but she knows that the people who built it are under constant threat of being swept aside by change.
News
John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA's Contradictions, Dies at 81
For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, from its industrial infrastructure to its mom-and-pop storefronts.
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.
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.