Art
How Commercial Photography Sold Modernism
The Real Thing at the Met Museum shows that the advertising tactics of commercial studios were in dialogue with avant-garde art in the 1920 and ’30s.
Photography
Art
The Art of Touch
An exhibition explores touch, from the possessive love of a mother holding her child to the violent and coercive contact that sometimes takes place between strangers.
Art
Photography Show Aims to Upend Xenophobic Border Narratives
In Picturing the Border, intimate works by 12 photographers urgently visualize the nuances and coexistent contradictions of US-Mexico border identities.
Art
How Do You Picture a President?
We might think that many of our olde tyme presidents hearkened from an age before photography, but this exhibition of daguerreotypes proves that wrong.
Interview
Sunil Gupta’s Extended Queer South Asian Family
“Art history is essentially a bunch of stories. I thought our stories should be in there and they weren’t,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.
Interview
Lola Flash Has Got Some Stories to Tell
“For years, I didn’t want acceptance from the art world. I wanted the opposite, to be honest,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.
Art
Nona Faustine Unearths New York’s Buried History of Slavery
Faustine’s White Shoes photography series demands a reckoning with the histories and afterlives of slavery, settler colonialism, and genocidal violence.
Art
The New York Housing Law That Helped Sustain Artists
Any New Yorker who steps into Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow will likely look with a lascivious gaze upon the few remaining protected artist lofts.
Books
Grief and Healing at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery
Eugene Richards’s sensitive photographs in Remembrance Garden are rooted in over 100 visits he took to the grounds after enduring COVID in 2020.
News
Real Photographer Beats Out Robots in AI Art Competition
Miles Astray’s photo of a pink flamingo on a shore was disqualified after it was selected for an award meant for AI-generated images.
Art
Two Pioneering Photographers’ Versions of Femininity
A joint exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery makes clear the force of Francesca Woodman’s authorial voice and Julia Margaret Cameron’s radicality.
Art
Tamiko Nishimura Makes the Invisible Visible
In Nishimura’s devastating photographs of everyday life in Japan, the past is never past, and the people are rendered invisible.