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In Camera Work, Alfred Stieglitz sought to promote photography as fine art. To this day, some collectors have gone as far as to mount individual gravures from the fabled publication.
Visualizing the Common Core Curriculum
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A photographer went back to school to complete an assignment: helping people visualize the much-contested educational initiative known as the Common Core.
Howard Schatz: A Lifetime of Exploring Vision
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Howard Schatz spent the first half of his career helping others improve their vision as an ophthalmologist. When he picked up photography, he felt freer to explore things he never saw before.
Same Sex, Love and Hate, in South Africa
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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.
