Art
The Many Forms and Meanings of the Scientific Image
Seeing Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is a yearlong online project that explores photography's role in defining, promoting, and furthering science.
Photography
Books
A Book and Exhibition Reveal Josef Albers's Rarely Seen Photocollages
In his only lecture on photography, Albers warned students against approaching photography carelessly, and the collages he made of his own photos show how he put that mantra into practice.
Books
The Beauty and Devastation of Mankind's Impact on Earth
In his book Overview: A New Perspective of Earth, photographer Benjamin Grant uses satellite imagery to convey the enormity of mankind's effects on the planet.
Art
The First Known Photograph of the White House
A Welsh immigrant named John Plumbe, Jr., who was one of the country's first prominent professional photographers, took the daguerreotype in January 1846.
Art
Aesthetic Interference: On Those Photos from Ankara
I don’t just see the images as documents of atrocity. I also see them as aesthetic, and that doesn’t sit easily. Indeed, it feels immoral. It feels wrong.
Books
A Photographer Retraces the Coastal Landscapes of Longfellow's "Evangeline"
Mark Marchesi spent several years documenting the emptiness of Acadia, which inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 epic poem.
Art
In a Show of African Portrait Photography, the Figure Fades Away
The exhibition looks beyond the horizon of defining an African identity, beyond the notion of authentically representing what this identity is supposed to be, as both local and foreign photographers have sought to do.
Art
The First Photographs of Snowflakes
In 1885, Wilson Bentley, a farmer in Vermont, became the first known person to photograph a snowflake. He would document 5,000 of them in his lifetime.
Books
Rare Photographs of the US Civil Rights Struggle Beyond the South
A new book by Mark Speltz brings together over 100 rarely or never-before-published photographs from the Civil Rights era that show its grassroots actions beyond the South.
Film
A Mapplethorpe Documentary Favors Contemplation Over Controversy
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s new documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures offers intimate insights into the controversial photographer's life and persona.
Art
A 19th-Century Photographer's Journey Through Jerusalem's Layered History
In 1854, Auguste Salzmann traveled to Jerusalem to search for the biblical history visible in the city's architecture.
Art
Glimpses of 19th-Century Shanghai in Hand-Colored Photos
An exhibition features more than 35 prints by William Saunders, a British photographer who set up a studio in central Shanghai during the late Qing Dynasty.