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PHOTOS: Shaking Up The Idea Of What Africa Looks Like
Africa's big photo show is asking some big questions.What does it mean to be an artist in Africa? And what does the future hold for the continent?"The Bamako Encounters," the 11th African Biennale of...
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From Sandwich Shops To Cotton Mills, Art That Honors The American Worker
A lot of very hard work is going on at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.A muscled guy in an undershirt tightens a big bolt with his wrench; a farm worker bends almost in half, filling...
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Don't Be Fooled: 'Generation Wealth' Is More About Wanting Than Having
Plastic surgery, private jets, toddlers in designer clothes, magnums of champagne — Lauren Greenfield's 500-page photo collection,Generation Wealth, shows all of that. But this book isn't just about...
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Outcry Over Photo Showing The Face Of A Girl Allegedly Being Raped
On April 28, the magazine LensCulture posted a photo of what appeared to be a man raping a girl who looks like a young teenager.The magazine — which has nearly a million Facebook followers — was using...
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Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can't
A team of engineers at Dartmouth College has invented a semiconductor chip that could someday give the camera in your phone the kind of vision even a superhero would envy.The new technology comes from...
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On Streets Of New York, The Penitent Pause For A Portrait
Today is Ash Wednesday.For many of us, the smudge on people's foreheads signifies the first day of Lent.Photographer Greg Miller has been documenting this ritual on the streets of New York City for the...
View ArticleExhibit Features East Village Photographer Peter Hujar
Joel Smith, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at The Morgan Library & Museum, discusses the new exhibit Peter Hujar: Speed of Life at the Morgan. It runs through May 20th and features...
View ArticleInside NFL Protests, Peter Hujar's Photography, Stop-and-Frisk Isn't Over
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Benn Steil discusses his new book The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, which looks at the legacy of the Marshall Plan in the context of today’s world...
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Review: Heading Downtown with Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar, the subject of a riveting retrospective at the Morgan Library and Museum, deserves to be better-known. A photographer who specialized in tender black-and-white portraits of his friends...
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Extraordinary Moments: Top Contenders For A Photojournalism Prize
A good photo can let you see the world in ways you never dreamed of.That's what struck us about the nominees for the 2018 World Press Photo contest, an annual competition that highlights the best...
View ArticleRussian Spies, America's Concentration Camps, The Refugee Soccer Team that...
Journalist Howard Blum discusses his new book, which argues that to address Russian intervention in America today, we need to understand the history of Russian espionage dating back to the Cold War....
View ArticleThe Life and Death of a Japanese Internment Camp
Photographer Stan Honda talks about the book, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, which was written by Sharon Yamato and features his black and white photography. This book is...
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Art Inspired By The Ingenuity Of Nigerian Street Vendors
When photographer Lorenzo Vitturi first visited Lagos, in 2014, he expected to find the same sort of gentrification he'd seen happening around him in London, where he's based. He imagined he'd find...
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'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was...
If National Geographic's April issue was going to be entirely devoted to the subject of race, the magazine decided it had better take a good hard look at its own history.Editor in Chief Susan Goldberg...
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Woman's Instagram Post About Kenyan Child Ignites Fury
Editor's Note: This story was originally published on November 26, 2017 and has been updated.This week, an Instagram user who goes by the name of Jossa Johansson has come under fire for the caption of...
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PHOTOS: The Vanishing Body Art Of A Tribe Of Onetime Headhunters
When Phejin Konyak was a girl, she'd sit on her grandfather's lap in front of a roaring fireplace, with a pot of black tea simmering. He'd tell her folk tales. She was entranced by the stories — but...
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The Complex Story Of Civil Rights Photographer Ernest Withers
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3 Photographers Who Captured The Undersides Of Life
We snap a selfie with the tap of a finger. We're used to preserving smiling moments.At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, there's an exhibit right now which goes to darker places with a...
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6 More Concert Halls We Can't Look Away From
Theaters aren’t merely spaces we associate with wonderful sound — in many instances they are architecturally stunning as well. Continuing our exploration of the world’s most beautiful halls, here are...
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Tyra Banks Takes Her Mama's Advice, Turns It Into A Book
Nobody’s perfect. And that’s a good thing. It’s also a lesson supermodel and entrepreneur Tyra Banks learned early on from her mother, Carolyn London.London, a retired photographer, not only supported...
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