Books
The Anti-Apartheid Photographer Who Was Stranded in America
Ernest Cole’s life story is an anti-colonialism epic, Cold War thriller, and a tragedy.
Photography
Books
An Overdue History of Japanese Women Photographers
The expansive catalog offers an essential compilation of essays, interviews, and profiles of Japanese women photographers from the 1950s through the present day.
Art
When Wildlife Imitates Art
See the images that won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award and the art historical references they remind us of.
Books
Danny Lyon Lived His Photography
The photographer's autobiography takes us on a long voyage from East to West and back again without smoothing over the potholes in the road.
Art
How Robert Frank Pushed the Boundaries of Photography
A refreshing retrospective demonstrates that, far from being overshadowed by The Americans, Frank was only getting started with it.
Art
Pia Arke’s Archives of Arctic Colonization
Arke’s art calls forth memories of Greenlandic Inuit life and reinscribes them with the reality of the body against its representation by White colonizers.
Art
Photos of Olympic Divers’ Faces Have the Internet in Tears
For professional sports photographers, the bizarre expressions are a mark of incredible athletic agility.
Books
Photographing the Lives of Black American Cowboys
The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US.
Art
Will There Be Fish This Year?
Texture, pattern, repetition, and practice combine with chance and the reality of climate change in the work of Dominick Porras.
Art
Latin American Foto Festival Expands Beyond the Bronx
Work by photographers from Guatemala to Brazil can be found in historically Latine neighborhoods across New York City.
Art
Queerness and Nature Intersect at Wave Hill
Two shows cast a critical eye on our fantasy of nature as it crashes up against the realities of the world we humans have created.
Art
Three-Time Olympic Fencer’s Vibrant Photos of Athletic Diversity
Enzo Lefort's stylized portraits of his teammates are now on view alongside works by other Olympian artists in Paris.