Art
Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago
Over 150 glass plate photographs of the moon, stars, and solar eclipses were recently rediscovered in the basement of the the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen.
Photography
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Jim French, Male Beauty, and Languages of Desire
I recently became aware of the hashtag “#masculinitysofragile.” The words together felt poetic. Fragility is supposed to be the antithesis of masculinity, right?
Art
Rescuing an Obscure Photographic Archive of Early 20th-Century Argentina
When German-born photographer Annemarie Heinrich opened her first studio in 1930, her adopted country of Argentina was experiencing a time of change from old cultural practices to industrialization.
Books
Heavy Metal Headbangers Frozen in Time
With hair flying and faces contorted in expressions between joy and agony, the heavy metal fans captured by Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn are a frenzy of movement in saturated color.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Sweet Strangeness of His Family’s Everyday Life
Like a breath of fresh air, Dutch photographer Maurice van Es’s now will not be with us forever provides a welcome alternative to the haze of apathy, distrust, and sarcasm that permeate contemporary media and visual culture.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Sweet Strangeness of His Family’s Everyday Life
Like a breath of fresh air, Dutch photographer Maurice van Es’s now will not be with us forever provides a welcome alternative to the haze of apathy, distrust, and sarcasm that permeate contemporary media and visual culture.
Art
Illuminating the History of West African Portrait Photography
Discussions of West African portrait photography tend to gravitate towards the 1960s and 1970s, the era of such well-known artists as Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Samuel Fosso.
Art
The Idealism of Early Soviet Russia in Pictures
The Jewish Museum’s The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film examines the beginnings of Soviet Russia, positing that the period from 1921 to 1932 was one of avant-garde artistic experimentation, a time when photographers and filmmakers (many of them Jewish) imagined their c
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The Queens of Botswana's Metal Scene
South African photographer Paul Shiakallis’s series Leather Skins, Unchained Hearts provides a visual alternative to the stereotypical metalhead in the popular Western imagination.
Art
Circuses, Rallies, and Soldiers: Photographs of Early-20th-Century American Clans
In over 100 vintage photographs, Hunt’s Three Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950 explores how individuals in the early 20th century assembled into groups, linked together by experiences as official as military service or loose as a shared appreciation for the accordion.
Art
An Artist's Mission to Photograph Every House in Poland in the 1980s
In 1978, artist Zofia Rydet set out on a mission she knew was impossible: she wanted to photograph every house in her native country of Poland.
Art
Photography as Mummification
Despite Hollis Frampton’s prolific career as a filmmaker, educator, and essayist, and his position as a mainstay of the avant-garde film movement, he is only now having his first solo exhibition in New York City.