Art
“Youth is wasted on the young” is one of those clever-sounding, achingly wistful quips that have been attributed to various wags of assorted times and places, including the Irish writers Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
Art
In the early-morning hours in turn-of-the-century New York City, a photographer who was afraid of the dark took his camera out into the light.
Art
When French photographer Jean-François Jaussaud asked an 84-year-old Louise Bourgeois for permission to photograph her at her New York home and studio, she gave him an intimidating stipulation.
Art
In 1920s Hamburg, a dancer couple created wild, Expressionist costumes that looked like retro robots and Bauhaus knights.
Books
With a scythe in one hand and a skeleton's face gazing out from a cloak, Santa Muerte appears like a cross between the Grim Reaper and the Virgin Mary.
News
There are over 16,000 public libraries in the United States, and although photographer Robert Dawson only visited a fraction — 526 over two decades — his series presents a diverse portrait of this community space.
Interview
Matthew Morrocco arrived at the café fashionably late, wearing an army jacket and floral print flats. Before sitting down he ordered his coffee.
Art
For his photo series FACADES, which portrays Europe's old religious structures head-on, from top to bottom, German artist Markus Brunetti strips these sites bare of any distracting elements.
Art
PARIS — The silence of Seton Smith was significant.
Art
Jerome Avenue Workers Project, an exhibition featuring work by photographers from the Bronx Photo League (a project of the Bronx Documentary Center), sees gentrification through a personal lens.
Art
Presenting vitas of sweeping landscapes paired with serene color gradients, Mark Dorf's photographs of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado ferry nature into fantasy.
Art
When the Apollo astronauts traveled beyond the atmosphere and to the moon in the 1960s and '70s, they carried Hasselblad cameras to document the NASA missions.