A New Museum for an Old Colony, Puerto Rico
“The Museum of the Old Colony” is a photo-based installation exploring the complicated – and unequal – relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States.Read more »
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Flights of Fancy: Photographing the World’s Plane Watchers
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Flights of Fancy: Photographing the World’s Plane Watchers
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas has traveled to more than a dozen cities around the world to photograph airplane spotters who gather around airports.Read more »
Is This Really the Bluesman Robert Johnson?
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Is This Really the Bluesman Robert Johnson?
Zeke Schein says a vintage photo he discovered on eBay may be that of Robert Johnson, the legendary bluesman who up to now has appeared in only two surviving images.Read more »
Putting a Face to a Comment: The New Online Crusaders
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Putting a Face to a Comment: The New Online Crusaders
Kyrre Lien, a photographer based in Oslo, combed through tens of thousands of online comments to photograph the lives of internet debaters from around the world.Read more »
Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway
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Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway
To ensure his photos would not be confiscated by authorities, Walker Evans entrusted a trove of 46 prints made in 1933 Havana to his friend — Ernest Hemingway.Read more »
Mel Rosenthal, Seeking Justice With a Camera
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Mel Rosenthal, Seeking Justice With a Camera
Mel Rosenthal, the photographer and teacher whose “In the South Bronx of America” showcased his passion for the underdog, is remembered by Ricky Flores, one of his many former students.Read more »
Joseph Rodriguez’s El Barrio in the ‘80s
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Joseph Rodriguez’s El Barrio in the ’80s
A new book revisits Joseph Rodriguez’s first project, a yearslong look at El Barrio, which was once the heart of New York’s Puerto Rican community.Read more »
A Storytelling Revival in Mississippi
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A Storytelling Revival in Mississippi
To honor the bicentennial of Mississippi’s statehood, residents throughout the state are telling the stories of their own communities with photographs using the 21st century technology of smartphones.Read more »
The Unseen Julia Child
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The Unseen Julia Child
While Julia Child was capturing France through its cuisine, it was that same French magic that inspired her husband, Paul, to capture the country through photography. Read more »
The Untold Quiet of Kurdish Iraq
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The Untold Quiet of Kurdish Iraq
Lam Duc-Hien, a Vietnamese photographer, first imagined Iraq to be full of tanks and violence. But after documenting the Kurdish region of Iraq for more than two decades, he found something very different.Read more »
Quirky Photos of Small Town Halloween
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Quirky Photos of Small Town Halloween
For several years, Timothy Archibald has photographed how his neighbors in El Sobrante, Calif., celebrate Halloween.Read more »
