Photography
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The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku
The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff.
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Life Along Israel’s Separation Wall
The photographer Ofir Berman captures two entangled realities.
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Fashion and Politics in Barkley L. Hendricks’s Pictures
An artist of wide-ranging interests, he captured urban street style, American symbols, and musical greats—all with a unique passion.
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Fashion Photography with a Pistol and a Pulse
Steven Klein’s images teetered between the seductive and the sadistic. For most publications today, they are history too rude to be repeated.
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Sunday at the Drag Strip
In Riverside County, California, old-school car enthusiasts test their homemade hot rods.
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An Alluring History of Photographic Blur
An exhibit at Photo Elysée, in Switzerland, shows how a beginner’s mistake can also be a form of creative intention.
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A Photographer Embraces the Alien Logic of A.I.
Charlie Engman’s experiments with Midjourney have yielded fleshy distortions, peculiar make-out sessions, and unfamiliar pictures of his mother.
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Thomas Wågström’s Pictures of the Living and the Lifeless
The mysterious photographs in the book “Case Closed” are more interested in the conditions under which human beings exist than in the lives they live.
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A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground
Adam Zhu’s book “Nice Daze” depicts amorphous social configurations, fleeting experiments in style and thrill-seeking, and elevated forms of doing nothing.
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The Little Paper with an Outsized Visual Impact
Over fourteen issues between 1968 and 1971, the downtown broadsheet Newspaper recruited a stunning list of contributors to chronicle the times in pictures.
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Tina Barney’s Searching Early Work
A new exhibition and book, titled “The Beginning,” show the photographer casting about for a method that could honestly capture her upper-crust milieu.
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Photographers and Artists, “Face to Face”
An exhibition at the International Center of Photography spotlights the charmed and charged phenomenon of the artist portrait.
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The Fate of Alexey Navalny, and the Future of Russia
The opposition leader languishes in a Russian prison. His colleague Maria Pevchikh talks about the attempt on his life, and Russia’s future. Plus, the pop music producer Chloe Bailey.
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A Double View of the World from Inside Mosques
In Marwan Bassiouni’s “New Western Views,” the windows of Muslim houses of worship provide an unfamiliar framing for ordinary sights.
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How America’s Most Cherished Photographer Learned to See
For five decades, Stephen Shore has remade our vision of the country, largely by remaking his own.
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A Landscape Shared by Native Americans and the One Per Cent
The Shinnecock photographer Jeremy Dennis was inspired by Noam Chomsky’s view of zombie movies when he set out to tell the long and violent story of his peoples’ stolen homeland.
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An Outlier to the Pictures Generation Gets Her Due
Ellen Carey’s kaleidoscopic self-portraits put her out of synch with many of her peers. As her work has evolved, the times have caught up.
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The Lost New Jersey Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Why New Jersey? Because people make such a funny face when you mention New Jersey.”
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A Turkish Photographer’s Tribute to the Girls of Quranic Schools
In the book “Hafiz,” Sabiha Çimen depicts young Muslims forming their own “playground of the imagination.”
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Richard Avedon’s Naked Murals
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum showcases the terrific physical presence of a trio of the photographer’s large-scale works.