Art
Photo Exhibit Adds to the Dialogue on Slavery and American Universities
A photography exhibition on James Collins Johnson is part of a greater initiative at Princeton to investigate and give visibility to the university's ties to slavery.
Photography
Film
Stanley Kubrick’s Lesser-Known Beginnings as a Photographer
An exhibit highlights the published and unpublished photos Kubrick snapped between 1945 and 1960, before he became the renowned filmmaker.
Art
The Polychromatic Postcolonial Churches of Southern India Shine
The churches of South India are unlike others around the world for their colorful graphic designs.
Books
Gripping Nocturnal Views of Detroit Devoid of Life
Dave Jordano's new book collects more than 100 of his startling, brilliant nighttime photographs of his hometown.
Art
Photographers Connect Africa’s Diaspora Back to the Continent
A group of contemporary artists re-imagine the African Diaspora through references to the landscape, masks, clothes, and adornments.
Art
Against Consuming Images of the Brutalized, Dead, and Dying
Reproducing and repurposing brutal visuals carries the risk of desensitizing, and further reinforcing the terrorizing normalization of what shouldn’t be mundane.
Art
Images of Joy in Central Park from 1970s New York
The photographs in the exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery create a sub-narrative to New York during its time of crisis, imparting an uncommon joie de vivre in a story that is commonly defined in terms of disintegration and sadness.
Art
The Promises and Perils of Early American Photography on Paper
In this show, photography offers a rich understanding of a diverse, divided, by turns confident and anxious United States bent on territorial and economic expansion from the 1840s to the 1860s.
Opinion
The Decline of American Empire in One Photograph
Can a single photograph symbolize a momentous geopolitical power shift? Perhaps.
In Brief
Cindy Sherman Turns Her Instagram into an Inflatable Pool Float
The smartphone-shaped float features one of the artist's distinctive, distorted selfies.
Art
Breaking Down Boundaries Through Poetry and Photography
In their collaborative project, Boundaries, Richard Blanco's poems run parallel to Jacob Hessler's photographs, often adding a narrative to the wide-open image.
News
A Rare Collection of 19th-Century Photographs of Native Americans Goes Online
Digitized by the American Antiquarian Society, the 225 vintage images were intended for non-Native audiences and were reproduced in government reports, illustrated newspapers or mounted on stereo cards.