In Brief
Defiant of the Future, Museums Ban Selfie Sticks
Oh, art museums. You're so fickle — like a guy who sends a charming message on Tinder and then disappears after the first tryst.
Photography
Art
The Monumental Loneliness of Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth: Photographs, a small exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents a sampling of its subject’s modes: his well-known Museum Photographs, portraits, architectural photographs, and large color works.
Art
Sharing Amateur Photographers' Shots from the New York World's Fairs
With the ostentatious pavilions gleaming during the day, and the fountains and futuristic statuary illuminated at night, the World's Fairs in New York were a photographer's dream.
Books
Letters of Woe and Curses Returned with Stolen Pieces of the Petrified Forest
The fossilized remains of an ancient forest, dazzling with glints of opal and amethyst, have tempted many a visitor to Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park.
Art
A Vibrant Portrait of Liberia in GIFs
In Monrovia Animated, Beaurain has produced an unusual form of GIF-as-documentary photo, one that brings to life a far-off locale and makes us consider it in a way we’ve rarely been asked to before.
News
Zoom in on 100 Million Stars with the Hubble Telescope's Largest Released Image
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has released the largest ever image of the Andromeda galaxy, opening up 100 million stars and star clusters to public exploration.
Interview
Instagram Photos Reappear on the Streets Where They Were Taken
What if instead of only showing up online, your Instagram photos of sunsets, street art, photogenic cityscapes, or alluring strangers on subway platforms were posted back into New York City's public spaces?
Books
An Out-of-Focus Look at Post-Photography
Tacking "post" onto a word is one of those art world tricks that's routinely wielded to great rhetorical effect, but has little denotative meaning. In much the same way, Robert Shore’s book featuring the term, Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, jumps off the shelves with its punchy title bu
Art
A Cartography of Incarceration in the United States
Data artist Josh Begley has created an online Prison Map that catalogues aerial photographs of prisons, jails, and other American detention centers to give the architecture of the growing prison population a tangibility and scale.
Books
Catching Subway Riders in the Act of Reading
For bibliophiles and generally nosy people, one of the worst things about the rise of e-books and e-readers is that they don't have distinct covers.
Interview
Sculpting Photographs in Play-Doh
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Eleanor Macnair's Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh are serious fun. Whether on Tumblr, where her re-imagined photographs first appeared, or in her recently published book of the same name, their cartoonish colors and shapes dazzle the eye.
Art
Telling the History of Photographic Processes, from Daguerreotypes to Digital
The George Eastman House released a 12-part video series last month that starts with the silhouette and traces photography's development through daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, Kodachrome, and right up to digital.