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.
Photography
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.
Announcement
ICP and Eyebeam Present a Symposium on Vision, Technology, and Justice
VISION AND TECHNOLOGY: toward a more just future is a free symposium tackling contemporary issues around representation and new media practices
News
Remembering Photographer Laura Aguilar’s Empathetic, Queer Art
Aguilar, the photographer who captured people's bodies with genuine empathy, died yesterday at the age of 59.
Art
A Photographer Who Documented the Eclectic Subcultures of Southern California
The photographer known as Spot will tell the stories behind the hippies of Hollywood, the skate scene in Hermosa Beach, and the origins of South Bay punk.
Art
Reverent Photos of Young Punks and Their Irrepressible Mohawks
There’s a casual, almost candid quality in Ed Templeton's photos. His subjects look “cool,” most likely because he himself thinks that they are.