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There's a lot of nostalgia around old playgrounds, for the burns in summer on the overheated metal slides or the nauseating spinning play on the whirl. Those brushes or hits with danger are why most of them are gone, replaced with safer, less rusty, contraptions.
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Well, it was nice while it lasted. After revising its policy in April to allow photography inside the permanent galleries, the Frick Collection has once again changed course.
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After serving as a Romanian war photographer from World War I through 1920, Costica Acsinte settled in Slobozia in the south of the country and set up a studio called Foto Splendid Acsinte. There he proceeded to document the surrounding community in over 5,000 images.
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From the tiny harvest mouse twisting a humble home of blades of grass, to the lofty fields of compass termite towers appearing like relics of some ancient world, the structures of the animal kingdom are astounding in their complexity of forms. Nature photographer Ingo Arndt dedicated two years of tr
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Photographer Douglas Ljungkvist first went to Ocean Beach, New Jersey, in 1993, reluctantly. But to please his girlfriend, he stayed, and then came vacation after summer vacation of growing more attached to the little homes in their faded pastel hues.
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Add the Frick Collection, one of New York City's oldest and most staid museums, to the list of art institutions that have begun allowing visitors to take photographs in their permanent-collection galleries.
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Famed for his iconic black-and-white images from war’s torn edge — humane, harrowing snapshots of the Spanish Civil War and World War II — Robert Capa also carried on an enduring exchange in color film. Beginning in earnest in 1941 and continuing until his tragic death 13 years later, Capa shot thou
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Since it was founded in 2004 by photographer Sophie Mörner, Capricious magazine has been issuing contemporary photography narratives organized around broad themes.
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NEW ORLEANS — When news of George Dureau’s death was announced by his gallery this past Monday afternoon, word traveled quickly among my extended circle of friends and professional acquaintances in New Orleans.
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Brooklyn-based photographer Rachel Sussman spent nearly a decade tracking down the elders of our world, where life is measured in centuries instead of years.
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In the 1890s, Swedish playwright August Strindberg photographed the night sky without a camera or even a lens. These "Celestographs," as he called them, were both a folly and an innovative work of experimental art.
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Disposable and deteriorated, the developer trays used by photographers are usually discarded.