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Melissa Ann Pinney’s project exploring female identity spans three decades and presents women and girls as subjects in their own right, not as accessories in the lives of men.
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Meet the Personalities Behind These German Office Plants
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To Frederik Busch, a German photographer, these plants have no less personality than their human counterparts.
Revisiting the Images of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work Magazine
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Two photographers have spent years compiling a complete set of Camera Work, Alfred Stieglitz’s groundbreaking publication that helped shepherd photography into the art world.
Photographing a ‘Punk’ Priest in Rural Russia
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When Ekaterina Solovieva traveled to a remote lake town in northern Russia, she encountered an Orthodox priest with a decidedly unorthodox manner.
Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’
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While in Paris, photography became Brassai’s main language as he wandered through bars, ballrooms and occasionally brothels, sometimes giving direction to his subjects.
The Earliest Days of American Photography
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A new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles looks at the complex — and sometimes even illicit — history of photography in the United States.
Indians Celebrating India at Houston FotoFest
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This year’s FotoFest International, the first and longest-running worldwide photography biennial, focuses on work by artists of Indian origin.
Single Mother, Pioneering Photographer: The Remarkable Life of Bayard Wootten
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In 1904, Bayard Wootten, a divorced single mother in North Carolina, first borrowed a camera. She went on to make more than a million images.
Nan Goldin Looks Back at Friends and Lovers
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A reissue of “The Beautiful Smile” looks back on Nan Goldin’s highly personal work that combines art photography with a snapshot aesthetic.
In Search of the American Family
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An upcoming show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston explores the idea of family: from the ones shown in portraits to the fleeting glimpses of the photographer whose own family is back home, waiting.
The Subway Portraits of Helen Levitt
A piece printed in the Times’s Metropolitan section as well as the Lens Blog about Helen Levitt’s subway series .
Telling the Tales of Trees Around the World
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More than just providing of shade, fruit or wood, trees are nature’s documentarians, witnessing – and sometimes playing a role in.
Tina Modotti, Behind the Camera and Out of Weston’s Shadow
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A recently republished book sorts out the life of Tina Modotti as an artist and activist — and the long shadow of Edward Weston.
Finding Visual Poetry in Russia
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Igor Posner returned to St. Petersburg looking for the “half-seen, half-recollected” moments that had stayed in his mind since he left Russia in the early 1990s.
Irving Penn Reinterpreted, by Irving Penn
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Though Irving Penn made photographs with his printing process in mind, the most striking aspect of his oeuvre lies in his broad reinterpretation of commercial magazine work from decades earlier.
Drawing Your Dream Man
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Anna Ivantsova’s images pair traditional photographic portraits of her subjects with computerized depictions of their ideal partners.
An Insider’s View of Alaskan Inuit
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A new exhibit offers an insider’s take on Inuit life in Alaska, putting the lie to the stereotypes made popular by televised reality shows.
Peter Hujar’s Gay Lower East Side: Out of the Shadows
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A traveling retrospective finally recognizes the work of Peter Hujar, whose photos of gay life were overshadowed by those by his contemporary, Robert Mapplethorpe.
