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The Heart of the Great Plains in 1970s Black and White
WASHINGTON, DC — Kansas is characterized as much by its skies as its ground, with clouds sweeping over the fields and towns that dot the heart of the Great Plains.
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The Strange Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
Everyone knows Craigslist is rife with the weird and the wild, but since 2013, Brooklyn-based artist Eric Oglander has been combing the online marketplace for one quotidian object: the mirror.
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A Photographer's Two-Year Journey to Document Sacred Cows
There's a beauty in the bovine's domesticated body that inspired Daniel Naudé to spend two years taking portraits of cows.
Art
A Visual Search Engine for the Aerial Patterns of Cities
Thanks to a small team of artists and coders, you may now explore cities through patterns of infrastructure as captured in aerial photography.
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Looking and Being Looked At in the New International Center of Photography
I expected to stare at many things at the International Center of Photography's new 250 Bowery location, but my own image was not one of them.
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An Intimate Encounter with Paul Strand’s Photographic Journeys
LONDON — It's always surprising when important artists get overlooked. It's the case of Paul Strand in the UK, whose contribution to the history of photography might still slip away from the British public's view.
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JR's Photoshop Trompe l’Oeil at the Louvre
PARIS — We have long loved our illusions.
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Wolfgang Tillmans Focuses on Borders and Brexit in London
LONDON — Like many other Europeans living in the UK, I am not eligible to vote in Thursday's referendum that will decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union.
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The First Photographs of Lightning Crackle with Electric Chaos
In the 1880s, William Nicholson Jennings set out to prove the diversity and unpredictability of lightning's path, capturing the electric light with his plate camera.
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The Relics of Victorian Natural History in Eye-Popping Stereoscope
Natural history storerooms are a bit like drowned Noah's Arks, with specimens from every realm of the animal world posthumously preserved.
Art
The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City
The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.
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From Fluxus to Selfies, Photographs that Blur the Performative and the Real
LONDON — Five figures stand cocooned in the radiating steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge — four of them are naked and covered in painted spots, hanging out beneath a banner that reads “SELF-OBLITERATION.”