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.
Photography
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.
Art
Gordon Parks's Tribute to the Great Migration, 65 Years Past Due
Few magazines disseminated the American Dream as widely as Life did in the years following the Second World War.
Art
A Painter's Reflective (and Reflected) Photographic Portraits
PARIS — The use of mirrors in art has been a rich one, used by Pop, Kinetic, Minimal, and Conceptual artists. In this long tradition, the Jeu de Paume currently offers an additional point of reference.
Art
Sitting at the Thrones of Nigerian Kings
In January, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi caused a stir when he stepped out in a pin-striped suit emblazoned with his own name.
News
LA County Agrees to Pay Photographers $50K for Harassment
In the resolution of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California, Los Angeles County will pay three photographers who were harassed by members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) a total of $50,000 in damages.