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Photography

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A man wearing a cap and backpack stands outdoors holding a camera in one hand and a coil of climbing rope in the other.

Jimmy Chin On Finding Beauty in Landscapes That Kill

Few photographers have earned their vantage points the way Jimmy Chin has, with first ascents in the Himalaya and the first American ski descent of Everest. The same nerve won him an Academy Award for 'Free Solo' and earned him an Oscar nomination for 'Nyad'. Along the way, Chin built one of photography's largest audiences, with 3.4 million followers on Instagram alone, by bringing back images from places few people will ever reach.
By Dan Duray
A colorful geometric mural animates a weathered city wall as pedestrians gather in front.

In Arles, Photography and Art Ease the Transition from Summer into Fall

While Arles tends to be buzziest in July and August, the autumn season is a quieter, crowd-free time to explore a town packing a great artistic punch.
By Sarah Moroz
A photograph of a severely deteriorated abandoned room with peeling plaster, broken furniture, debris across the floor and an open doorway revealing a rural landscape outside.

Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay

His work challenges conventional tropes of ruin aesthetics through an emphasis on community and ethics.
By Xinyi Ye
A blue-toned winter landscape shows snow-covered mountains rising behind a forest and several small wooden cabins beside an icy road.

Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise

By Sarah Moroz

Judy Glickman Lauder’s Vast Trove of Photography Is a Portrait of Its Collector

By Sarah Moroz
An old timey black and white photo of a man and woman about to kiss in a restaurant booth

One Fine Show: “Brassaï, The Secret Signs of Paris” at Moderna Museet

By Dan Duray
A man with long gray hair and a woman with light brown hair sitting on steps outdoors, both wearing dark clothing and sunglasses, looking at the camera.

Jay and Ricki Blakesberg On Becoming Stewards of the Grateful Dead’s Visual History

By Dan Duray
A small yellow flower held between two hands, one hand gently passing it to the other, set against a blurred natural background.

When Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why Photography Needs Community More Than Ever

By Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth

The Gordon Parks Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Gala Made the Argument for Art as Activism

By Christa Terry
A grid of torn black-and-white portraits is repaired with thin gold lines.

Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

By Kinvara Balfour

Photo London, Like Its Host City, Is Outward-Facing and Ever-Changing

By Henry Roberts

At 88, Joel Meyerowitz Is Still Playing Games

By Henry Roberts
A silver Leica camera with a mounted lens rests on a teal surface beside a book titled “Tazio Secchiaroli: The Original Paparazzo,” featuring a black-and-white photograph on its cover.

The Vintage Leica Market Is Surging as Analog Photography Finds New Devotees

By Elisa Carollo
A strange Polaroid image of a human eye surrounded by swirls that seem like an angry, stormy sea

One Fine Show: “Lucas Samaras – Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking” at the Art Institute of Chicago

By Dan Duray
A group of four young Native American women in colorful traditional dress stand on a white salt flat landscape under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

In an Age of Image Overload, AIPAD’s The Photography Show Reminds Us What a Photograph Can Do

By Elisa Carollo
A young girl in a sleeveless dress stands barefoot on grass at night, her head bowed and body illuminated against a dark wooded backdrop.

The World as Seen Through Yorgos Lanthimos’s Lens

By Jordan Riefe
A black-and-white street scene shows costumed figures holding hands, with others in theatrical outfits gathered around them in a lively urban setting.

One Fine Show: “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at the Portland Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A black-and-white photograph shows a woman in a fluffy hat and heels lying on a bed beside a man in a leopard-print jacket and sunglasses in a hotel room setting.

The Darkness and the Light in Photographer Sante D’Orazio

By Henry Roberts

One Fine Show: “Ann Hamilton, still and moving • the tactile image” at the Cleveland Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A bearded man wearing a black baseball cap, black T-shirt and chain necklace looks down pensively while standing outdoors against a softly blurred urban skyline.

Dean Majd’s “Hard Feelings” Expands the Emotional Register of Masculinity

By Christa Terry
New York Observer: An image shows two drag performers in elaborate orange costumes and tall headdresses posing underwater among colorful coral and fish, referencing the exhibition’s playful reinterpretation of Darwin and queer marine life.

Don’t Miss: “Darwin in Paradise Camp” at the Whitworth in Manchester

By Henry Roberts
A photographer wearing a gas mask and round protective goggles holds a large camera on a tripod beneath an open umbrella, suggesting the conditions of wartime documentation.

Don’t Miss: “Lee Miller” at Tate Britain

By Henry Roberts
The museum’s central atrium reveals exposed steel beams, staircases and multiple gallery levels filled with photographic displays.

Rotterdam’s Reopened Photography Museum Celebrates the Medium’s Material Nature

By Sarah Moroz
A large figurative painting shows a mermaid with a green tail kneeling in shallow icy water and offering a pink cupcake to a cowboy standing with his back turned next to a saddled horse against a pastel sky.

How a Kansas City Mermaid Became Will Cotton’s Muse

By Adam Robb
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