Art
Cutting Edge or Gimmicky? The World's First Snapchat Exhibition
Imagine going to an art show where the paintings literally self-destruct after you see them.
Photography
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Portraits of Contemplative and Cocky Poultry
For most of her four-decade-long career, photographer Jean Pagliuso focused her lens on the fashion industry and on Hollywood, producing images of celebrities meant for magazines and movie posters.
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Found Photographs Show How Couples Light It Up During Chinese Weddings
There are nearly as many smokers in China as there are Americans in the United States. That staggering statistic might help explain the central role cigarettes play in traditional Chinese weddings.
Books
The Pre-Columbian Origins of Mexico’s Modernist Architecture
In his monograph Pyramid, published by Toluca Éditions, photographer Pablo López Luz explores the pre-Columbian influence on modernist architecture in Mexico.
Art
Write the Stories of Thousands of Found Polaroids
In the 1970s and '80s the Polaroid instant camera quickly captured family moments and delivered the images on the spot.
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Barbara Kasten’s Slippery Analog Photography
PHILADELPHIA — Talking about the limitations of photography, painter David Hockney said that art “must deeply involve an observer whose body somehow has to be brought back in.” At the time, he was pessimistic about the medium’s possibilities. Enter Barbara Kasten.
Art
Drawn Self-Portraits Materialized as Masks
For her Second Self photography series, Canadian artist Meryl McMaster asked her subjects to blindly draw single-line contours of their faces, which she then sculpted into wire masks.
Art
A Photographer in Conversation with William Blake
There are at least three exhibitions in Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin at the Morgan currently at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Books
Surreal Photographs of Chinese Amusement Parks in Hibernation
Italian photographer Stefano Cerio has captured ski resorts at night, empty cruise ships, drained water parks, and, most recently, the uncanny bleakness of China's off-season amusement parks and other constructed entertainment.
Art
Artist Stalks Himself So the FBI Doesn't Have to
If you want to know where Hasan Elahi is, just check his website.
Art
Germans Posing with Polar Bears in Vintage Photos
Try not to crack a smile at the sight of a polar bear crashing human picnics, photo-bombing social soirées, and seemingly just trying to fit in.
Books
The Grainy Doom of the Apocalypse on Film
Whether a bang of nuclear annihilation or the slow creep of a pandemic, our potential end-of-world wastelands have their own bleak visual language.