Art
A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Getty Center in Los Angeles opens the first survey of Thomas Annan, who photographed Glasgow during industrialization.
Photography
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Photographs that Suspend Us Between Sky and Water
Aspects of Ori Gersht's images are fused and inverted, reflections made into a world I can visually swim in.
Art
A Retrospective of a Forgotten 1930s Photographer of Famous Faces
The Philbrook Museum is reconstructing the career of modernist photographer Lusha Nelson, whose life was cut short by an untimely death.
Art
"I Have Seen My Death": The First X-Ray Photograph
In December of 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen revealed the bones of his wife's hand in the first X-ray photograph.
Books
The Early-20th-Century Photographer Who Magnified the Alien Beauty of Plants
Using a homemade camera, Karl Blossfeldt captured the sculptural details of plants, from the geometry of a seed pod to the alien curl of a fern.
Books
Photographing Thoreau's Walden Pond in Its Altered 21st-Century Landscape
From 2010 to 2014, photographer S.B. Walker explored the shores of Walden Pond, where Thoreau's bucolic environment now bustles with recreation and development.
Art
Resurfacing the Work of a Filmmaker Who Was Obsessed with the Underwater World
In the early 20th century, Jean Painlevé used inventive film and photography techniques to capture the odd nature of marine life.
Art
The Evolution of Diane Arbus in 35mm
The exhibition diane arbus: in the beginning gathers images the photographer shot between 1956 and 1962, when she started using the distinctive Rolleiflex camera with which she captured her most famous photos.
Books
Drenching Found Negatives in Washes of Vivid Color
After discovering a series of negatives in an abandoned skyscraper in St. Louis, Aaron Farley altered the degraded images with caustic colors.
Books
In Photographs of Estate Sales, Price Tags Mark the Possessions of the Dead
For a year, photographer Norm Diamond visited up to 10 estate sales a week, documenting the stranded possessions for his series What Is Left Behind.
Art
Artists Form Shell Company to Visit and Photograph Tax Havens
Artists Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti traveled to 13 tax havens in an attempt to visualize the fundamentally invisible networks corporations and the ultra-rich employ to hide their wealth.
Art
Library of Congress Digitizes 19th-Century Photos of Black Women Activists
The Library of Congress recently digitized rare 19th-century photographs of African American women active in suffrage, civil rights, temperance, education, reform, and journalism.