Art
3D Photographs of Life on Mars, Taken by Robots
Now more than ever, it's fascinating to look at the images we have from the Red Planet, and it just so happens that NASA has a whole collection in 3D.
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Athwart the Wrecking Ball: Last House Standing
Many neighborhoods of stately row houses that rose along the East Coast late in the 19th century have declined into decay, or been torn down entirely. Yet sometimes there's one solitary holdout standing tall and proud, its neighbors long since demolished.
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The Man Who Ran Away With the Moon
In Russia in 2003, a man fell in love with the moon. Or that's the story artist Leonid Tishkov presents in his Private Moon series, where he journeys around the Earth with his cosmic companion: a radiant, six-foot-tall crescent moon.
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Photographer as Advocate: Lewis Hine's America
Odds are that when you close your eyes and imagine the huddled masses at Ellis Island, or brawny men at derricks hoisting iron bars to the top of the Empire State Building, you are seeing images that Lewis Hine introduced into the popular imagination.
Opinion
To Instagram or Not to Instagram?
One of the stories making the rounds in the art blogosphere at the moment is an article from LiveScience, which details a study that found people were less likely to remember artwork they saw in a museum if they photographed it. The findings dovetail nicely with an essay by Eric Gibson in the curren
Opinion
David Lynch's Abandoned Factory Photographs
David Lynch definitely knows an unnerving shot when he sees one. This is, after all, the filmmaker who brought us the distorted reality of Twin Peaks, culminating in the mind-melting Black Lodge and, well, absolutely everything in Eraserhead. Now Lynch is presenting two decades of photographs of fac
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Documenting the Digital Degradation of Images in Project LOSS
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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The Man Who Tried to Photograph Thoughts
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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Paul D'Amato Documents America, or Chicago's West Side
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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Even the Giants Fall: Photographs of Brutalist Homes in Decay
Just before they were turned to rubble, Chris Mottalini photographed Paul Rudolph-designed homes in their final decay.
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Ghost Buildings and the Inadvertent Beauty of Destruction
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.
Art
Seeking Humanity in the Barbarity of Brazil's Slave Past
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.