Art
The Suburban Dad Who Took the 1960s' Eeriest Photos
Save for his unusual name, Ralph Eugene Meatyard had all the trappings of an ordinary man.
Photography
Art
Wim Wenders Trains His Lens on a Photojournalist
Wim Wenders co-directed The Salt of the Earth, a portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, with Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro. The film is both a comprehensive portrait of Salgado’s work and a meditation on the vocation of photojournalism.
Art
What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money
When I was editing our story about Canadians "spocking" their $5 bills, I discovered something curious: you can't Photoshop money.
Art
India's Death Photographers Working Amid the Cremation Flames of the Ganges
Arriving with dance and music, draped in orange and pink flowers, the dead keep constant company in Varanasi, India, where cremations happen by the hundred each day on the Ganges River.
Art
Relics of War on Europe's Coastlines
During the grimmest days of World War II, the Allied and Axis powers raced to fortify their coastlines.
News
Toronto University Acquires Berenice Abbott Archive
Berenice Abbott was best known for being New York City's official photographer during the Great Depression, though she actually explored a panoply of subjects during her six-decade-long career.
Art
Finding People in Los Angeles's Urban Sprawl
The photographer Patrick Gookin recently explored the psychological ramifications of car culture in a series called LA by Car.
News
30,000 NYPD Crime Photographs Will Go Online
From contorted corpses splayed on the sidewalk to errant streetcars lodged in storefronts, the New York Police Department has photographed crime scenes almost since the technology was available.
Art
Historic Photographs Recreated in Miniature
Since photography was first invented nearly 200 years ago, humans have gained an unprecedented visual understanding of their past.
Books
The Bleak Banality of Shopping in Communist Europe
"In a cityscape largely without commercial seduction, the banality of the shop windows underscored a real cultural difference between East and West," photographer David Hlynsky writes in his introduction to Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain.
Books
Contemporary Photography's Capitalist Realism
In Caspar David Friedrich's “Frau vor untergehender Sonne” (“Woman before the Rising Sun”), a young woman is depicted facing the rising sun, which turns her almost completely, but not entirely, into a silhouette.
Art
Cinematic Illusions of Destruction
The dismal, desert landscape in Wawrzyniec Kolbusz's latest photographic series looks much like the bombed-out terrain we often see in documentary war images.