In Brief
While Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits were a significant part of his painting career, no confirmed photographs of the artist as an adult are known to exist.
Interview
Leaving New York City so your kids can have more green space doesn't sound like a promising start to an artistic career, but Tina Barney isn't typical.
Books
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.
Art
EJ Brown remembers being a kid and hearing older relatives talk about Rodney King, the Los Angeles taxi driver beaten by the LAPD.
Books
Over a thousand years since Christianity rose to dominance in the United Kingdom, pagan traditions continue to thrive.
Art
Over a century after World War I broke out in Europe, the earth still bears its mutilations.
In Brief
The Israeli government is coming down hard on a photography exhibition in Switzerland that features images of daily life in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Art
We all have those annoying social media friends whose incessant selfies seem little more than digital bragging.
Art
Old NYC, a project by software engineer Dan Vanderkam, launched last month with thousands of images from the New York Public Library mapped across the five boroughs.
News
Filters, those in-camera photo editing presets that turn your so-so iPhone snapshots into Cartier-Bresson-esque encapsulations of the human spirit, have a direct impact on the popularity of the images shared on social media.
Art
The Library of Congress has acquired 540 stereoscopes from Robin G. Stanford, an 87-year-old grandmother from Houston, Texas, who's spent the past four decades doggedly collecting them.
News
Anecdotally, most people would probably agree that photography has changed more dramatically over the last 15 years than any other sector of visual art.