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Zanele Muholi has spent her Saturdays photographing two sides of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender life in South Africa — joyous same-sex weddings, and the funerals of those murdered in hate.
Finding the Right Types in August Sander’s Germany
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As a recent acquisition by the Museum of Modern Art shows, August Sander’s desire to produce a complete survey of German society led to a lifelong, and unfinished, endeavor.
India’s Earliest Photographers
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India’s early embrace of photography is the theme of an exhibit that examines the country’s traditions of modern art.
Burk Uzzle’s American Puzzle
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In between assignments, Burk Uzzle took to side streets and back roads to find serendipitous visual moments.
Magnum Chooses the Decisive, and Transforming, Photo
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Magnum asked some 50 of its members to choose one “image that changed everything,” eliciting a range of responses, some unexpected.
Chuck Close, Collaborating in a Big Way
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A new exhibit of Chuck Close’s photos shows not just mastery of everything from daguerreotypes to 20×24 Polaroid images, but also his penchant for collaboration.
Andre Kertesz, Watching From Above
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From his window perch, Andre Kertesz captured candid moments where his subjects were unaware the master photographer was watching them.
Nepal, Before The Earthquake Struck: A Photographer’s Portfolio
Kevin Bubriski came as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1975, camera in hand, and has taken photos of daily life for 40 years: monks, haircuts, schoolgirls in a village that was at the earthquake’s epicenter.
A Ballet Dancer, Offstage, With a Camera
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Daniil Simkin, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, captures candid moments offstage, revealing the hard work behind the natural, masterly ease shown onstage.
Portraits of People and Paper
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Fascinated by a classmate’s braid, Patricia Voulgaris started doing pictures that were a mix of body parts, folded paper and collage.
Hearing and Feeling What Photographers Are Saying
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Chuck Kelton says most printers can get 90 percent of an image right. But that final 10 percent is where a printer’s darkroom skills will draw out the photo’s magnificence.
From Snapshots Come Paintings: Work by Richard Estes
Smithsonian Journeys
Thrilled to have made a contribution to the inaugural issue of Smithsonian’s quarterly publication, Journeys. The theme is Paris and my (short) piece is about Guillaume Flandre, a photographer who uses Instagram to document his city. Get the first issue here.
Finding Refuge in a Visual Language
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As a young refugee unfamiliar with a new language, Sylvia Plachy learned to watch her surroundings. A new retrospective tracks 50 years of her journey.
Director Of Oscar-Nommed ‘Timbuktu’ Found A Star In A Refugee Camp
A 12-year-old girl followed him everywhere. And she got the part. Abderrahmane Sissako tells what it’s like to make a reality-based movie in Mauritania.
A Broken Heart, a Child’s Life
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Martin Lehmann knew the tale of Baby Rose, a child born with a heart defect, would not end well. But before it did, he was there to chronicle her life with a loving family.
On Lynsey Addario’s ‘It’s What I Do’
Lynsey Addario does not just cover war zones. In her new memoir It’s What I Do she also writes about her photographs from humanitarian crises in Africa.
From Smartphones to Museum Walls
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The idea of using small cameras to document the world around you led the Columbus Museum of Art to mount an ambitious show of Instagram photos.
