Opinion
Is Flickr's New App an Instagram Killer?
I was working on this review of Flickr's new smartphone app when the online world started to grumble about Instagram and some matters that should concern us all.
Photography
Art
Small Town Gay Community
CHICAGO — Johannesburg-based South African artist Sabelo Mlangeni's photographs depict a celebratory, positive, and campy-funny queer life in the countryside.
Art
Contemporary Photographers Remix Modern Masters
The Aperture Foundation, created in 1952, did much to alter photography’s reputation at a time when it was not yet considered art. Sixty years later, for the current anniversary exhibition, Aperture Remix, the foundation commissioned ten photographers — Rinko Kawauchi, Vik Muniz, Taiyo Onorato and N
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Images from Inside Hurricane Sandy
Below are some of the notable images I encountered tonight, and I consider them a photo essay of sorts even though many of the images are not mine, but they are what I will remember about Sandy, more than the hundreds of news stories that will come out tomorrow and try to fashion a narrative for me.
Opinion
Spectacular Living Pictures
Yesterday on my rounds of Chelsea, I stumbled upon three amazing photographs on the walls of Andrew Edlin gallery. Included as part of Collectors of Skies, a wonderfully eclectic if somewhat theoretically abstract group show, each is a photograph of thousands of soldiers brought together to form a l
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Secret Dildo Sculptures and Abstract Neon Erotica
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The doors at the top of the gallery steps swing open with a crash. The touring Broadway show is over at the adjacent performing arts hall, and the matinee crowds pour into the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, a massive glass box situated on a busy street corner in downto
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Dreaming in Argentina When Juan Perón Was President
There are a many reasons to go see Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, curated by Mia Freeman, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yves Klein leaps into the void and Lyndon Johnson’s nose grows long and pointed (would that this would happen to all politicians who lie to their constit
Opinion
Fleeting Glimpses of Scientific Knowledge, Turned Into Art
Words and writing, even those you're seeing here, are an imperfect vehicle for communication. There's always a disconnect between the writer and their audience; meaning is translated through a medium that's easy to misunderstand or misinterpret. Spanish photographer Alejandro Guijjaro's Momentum ser
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Photographs that Lie
Although photographs have always been altered, new tools and the pervasiveness of images have made a skeptical viewer. Still, photography's power holds strong.
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When Natural History and the Artist's Studio Collide
The American Museum of Natural History in New York is legendary for its examples of exquisite taxidermy and assemblages of bones, but these artifacts owe much of their vital aura to the museum’s trompe l’oeil murals, which offer sweeping panoramic visions of a land before time. Despite their flat su
Interview
Photos of Car-Pooling Migrants Reveal Another Layer to Mexico's Hyper-Urbanization
Photographer Alejandro Cartagena gets a snapshot of life from a unique angle: directly above the highway in the suburbs of Monterrey, Mexico. His series Car-Poolers documents the travels of commuting workers who drive daily from homes in the city's outer suburban sprawl to jobs more centrally locate
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Rineke Dijkstra: Contemporary Photographer or Old Master?
It’s very rare that museum directors or curators, when introducing a new show to a room full of writers and critics, say anything remotely thought-provoking or profound. Introducing the Rineke Dijkstra mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim, however, the museum director Richard Armstrong made a