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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.
Staying Put and Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
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Rather than flee to safe havens in America or Israel, some 2,700 Jews who survived Auschwitz returned to their European town in what is now Romania.
Layers That Conceal and Reveal
The urban landscape offers Luis Mallo a chance to find layered, complex compositions that reveal his intent.
