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Each time a JPG is compressed, something of the original image is lost, and the anomalies and imperfections hiding beneath are slowly revealed. The process of this digital degradation is the focus of photographer Ellie Pritts' glitchy Project LOSS.
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In the 1960s, a Denver-based psychiatrist and a man who believed he could take photographs with his thoughts staged a series of experiments with Polaroid instant film. Dr. Jule Eisenbud and his test subject, Ted Serios, a former bellhop, were trying to prove that a psychic projection could manifest
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CHICAGO — Paul D'Amato’s large-scale photographs in his exhibition We Shall at the DePaul Art Museum offer a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and urban landscapes on Chicago's West Side.
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Just before they were turned to rubble, Chris Mottalini photographed Paul Rudolph-designed homes in their final decay.
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Sometimes when one building comes down, the ghost of its architecture is left embedded on its neighbor. These "ghost buildings" as they're sometimes called, remain as an unintentional texture of memory in the destruction.
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At the University of São Paulo's Museum of Contemporary Art, a new exhibition is interrogating Brazil's legacy of slavery, disrupting a body of photography that was meant to normalize slavery.
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To highlight journalism's visual plight, yesterday's edition of the leftist French newspaper Libération ran with blank placeholders instead of images.
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Orchard Beach in the Bronx doesn't exactly have the best reputation. While the 1.1 mile stretch of beach, formed from landfill and sand shipped in via barges, was declared "The Riviera of New York" when it opened in the 1930s under the direction of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, its profile has si
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The museum has quietly gone and changed its photo policy.
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There were no photographs taken of the 1865 funeral of New Yorker Seabury Tredwell, but there could have been. Artist Hal Hirshorn has imagined what this Victorian era funeral would have looked like through the photographic techniques of the day, namely salt prints.
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It's difficult to appreciate, given the ubiquity afforded by camera phones and low-cost digital cameras, but the ability to photograph our space can be a powerful act.
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The X-ray had just been discovered when two Austrian photochemists used the emerging field of photography to create what are still some of the most beautiful captures of the hidden interior world of organisms.