Art
Facing Death with Ebola's Healthcare Practitioners
The strange, protective garments worn by Ebola health care workers have been captured by Peter Casaer, a photographer with Médicins sans Frontières, in a series of discomfiting portraits.
Photography
Art
Mapping the Material and Social Histories of Photographs
The current Museum of Modern Art exhibition Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949 is just one component of a four-year, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded research project examining photographs not only as art, but as physical objects possessing a material and sociological
Art
Kicking Back With a Mexican Gang Member
Cracking into challenging subcultures is one of Bronia Stewart’s main objectives as a documentary photographer.
Art
Dizzying Dioramas of the World's Major Cities
Picture your hometown. What does it look like in your mind? Can you mentally map its streets, its parks, its landmarks?
Art
Preserving an Era in Africa's Photographic History
“Once everyone gets their own camera, they won't need us anymore,” one of the photographers told Tache. “Who knows, maybe they will shoot even better than us. We will disappear little by little and only the laboratories will remain, for the customers."
Books
Photographing the Crossroads of Life and Death in South Africa
Beginning in the 1940s, South African photographer David Goldblatt documented the people and landscapes of his country in striking black and white. It was only after apartheid that he felt comfortable with color in his work.
Art
The Trailblazing Peruvian Photographer Who Captured a Vanishing World
In 1905, when the Andean photographer Martín Chambi was 14 years old, he traveled to northwestern Peru with his father, who had a job working in a gold mine there. At the time, there were no indigenous photographers in the country, and images of the Quechua people were mostly captured through the le
News
Major Vivian Maier Collector Sells Holdings to Toronto Gallery
Collector Jeffrey Goldstein has sold the bulk of his Vivian Maier collection to Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery, largely removing himself from the ongoing legal saga surrounding the photographer's estate.
Art
A Woman Who Wielded a Camera Like a Brush
The multifaceted career of Swiss photographer Monique Jacot comes from her affiliation with a choice selection of 20th-century photographic endeavors. A current retrospective at Das Verborgene Museum, Reportages and Daydreams, Jacot’s first exhibition in Germany, reflects this diversity.
In Brief
After Outcry, Flickr Stops Selling Prints of Creative Commons Photos
In response to photographers' criticisms, Flickr has stopped selling photos uploaded by users under the Creative Commons “commercial attribution” license through its Flickr Wall Art site.
Books
A Portrait of the 21st-Century Alps, Where Glaciers Retreat and Concrete Advances
The Alps today are different mountains from when the first 19th-century photographers hoisted heavy plate cameras up their craggy sides. Glaciers are in retreat, ski resorts are firmly lodged into slopes, and human infrastructure crawls back and forth steadily up their inclines.
Books
Photographers Expose Their Processes
Some photographers take relentless notes in pocket journals, others share their discoveries in real time on Instagram. The two methods are different approaches to the contemporary photographic process, which is the subject of a new book, Photographers' Sketchbooks, by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formh