Books
New Monograph Explores Our State of Being Like "Characters in a Disaster Movie"
Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe describes our state of being in his new monograph as like "characters in a disaster movie."
Photography
Interview
Riding Mexico's "Death Train" with Central America's Child Migrants
For the past six years, photographer Michelle Frankfurter has been riding the rails with a Bronica camera and photographing the migrants traveling to the US-Mexico border from Central America.
Art
Remembering French Photographer Lucien Clergue, a Giant of the Field
PARIS — As the Paris Photo fair drew to a close, the French art scene was distressed by the news that pioneering art photographer Lucien Clergue died on Saturday at the age of 80.
Books
An Astronaut's Photographs of our Planet's Beauty and Mutilations
Astronaut photography has been influential on the perception of our planet almost since the first space missions.
Art
Capturing Love, Longing, and Disappearance in a Couple's Last Days
In 2011, photographer Sarker Protick’s grandfather John developed cancer.
Art
Photographing the Mexican American Experience
A photographer of Mexican American life is raising funds for a new exhibition in Austin, Texas.
News
Paris Festival Censors Photo of Mother-Daughter Embrace
A photograph of a mother and her young daughter embracing has been removed from a gallery exhibition in Paris after seven anonymous letters prompted the gallerist and the director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) to censor the work.
News
50,000 of Norman Rockwell's Photographs Digitized
Norman Rockwell may be best known for his Saturday Evening Post cover illustrations and homey paintings of idealized Anytown, USA scenes, but in terms of sheer numbers he was primarily a photographer.
Art
Civil War Portraits of the Broken Bodies Sent Home
On the National Museum of Health and Medicine's Flickr, portraits of wounded Civil War soldiers show the grim resilience, military pride, and shocked resignation in their faces.
Art
Rare Portraits of Kings and Commoners from 20th-Century Nigeria
For over five decades Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge photographed the royal court and everyday life of Benin, Nigeria. Drawing on their collection of over 2,000 glass plate and large format film negatives, as well as around 100 prints, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art is exhibiting some o
Art
What Can We Learn from Artists' and Curators' Desks?
There is something fascinating about seeing the spaces in which creative people work. Not only for the simple interior-decoration voyeurism it affords, but also for the ways their desks, easels, drawing boards, dark rooms, workshops, and so on reflect the ways their minds function.
Books
Cats, Cans, and More Curiosities from Toy Camera History
The colorful history of toy cameras, those affordable film cameras in plastic boxes, is being celebrated in a new book.