Art
Questioning the Idea of Progress in an Exhibition on the Black Panthers
I’m looking at photographs of the Black Panthers: men in formation wearing black leather jackets, with buttons featuring Huey P. Newton’s image fixed to their lapels.
Photography
Books
The Secret Life of Infrastructure: Lynn Saville’s 'Dark City'
Realism is the default mode for street photography — in New York, anyway — so it is impressive when a photographer transcends the genre by embracing the attributes and effects of a different approach.
Art
New Horizons in Road Trip Photography
MEMPHIS — The American tradition of road photography has typically captured a certain spirit of adventure, a search for unexpected beauty, oddity, maybe even enlightenment out there in the far corners of the country.
Art
The Photographer Who Shot Truman Capote’s Brooklyn
Before Truman Capote's society girl Holly Golightly appeared in the November 1958 issue of Esquire, the author was in a heated argument with his editor over visuals.
Interview
Picturing Conflict: An Interview with Michael Christopher Brown
In 2011, photographer Michael Christopher Brown took a “road trip” through the Libyan Revolution. His new book, Libyan Sugar, chronicles that extraordinary journey.
Art
Tate Uses AI to Match Old British Art to New Photojournalism
Art history repeats itself in contemporary photojournalism.
Art
Time Travel Along Fifth Avenue, with Photos from the Early 1900s and Today
In 1911, photographer Burton Welles published Fifth Avenue, New York, from Start to Finish.
Books
Photographing a Steinway Piano Being Put Together
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an example of the first 88-key piano model built by Steinway & Sons in 1868, its rosewood case containing an inventive cast-iron frame held aloft by three ornate legs.
Art
Catherine Opie's Intimate Photographs of S&M
LOS ANGELES — If you visited LA this summer, it would have been hard for you to ignore the presence of Robert Mapplethorpe.
Art
A History of Russia in a Massive Photo Archive
Prepare to get swept away in a stream of over 150 years of photographs capturing all sorts of scenes of Russian life.
Art
Acts of Cruelty Captured by Citizens
New Documents at the Bronx Documentary Center is not necessarily the most conceptually elaborate exhibition, or the most aesthetically alluring, but it is the one show I've seen this year that makes crucial sense of our contemporary compulsion to document sociopolitical upheavals and state-sponsored
Art
Danny Lyon's Prescient Visions
“We are frail flowers in the field,” wrote Danny Lyon, the politically active, compassionate photojournalist, after leaving New York for Bernalillo, New Mexico, in 1969.