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Melissa Auf der Maur’s Chronicle of Nineties Rock
Thirty-two years ago, in the summer of 1994, Courtney Love staged a remarkable comeback. Earlier that year, her band, Hole, had released a…
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A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds
Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me…
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An Indigenous Community’s Spiritual Haunting
In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth suicides.…
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Lagos Is a Vortex of Energy
The British Nigerian photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare took note of those aspects, capturing daily Lagos in his recent book, “Èkó,” a…
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A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. Source link
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Stunning ISS photo of Florida, Cuba captures "moonglint"
A nighttime picture of Earth taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station shows a spectacular "moonglint" between the…
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A Greenlandic Photographer’s Tender Portraits of Daily Life
The stark Greenlandic landscape is a persistent presence in Storch’s photos, and low, horizontal sunlight is everywhere. In one of…
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The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
There is something inspiring about an ugly building. I don’t mean high-concept ugly, like a brutalist tower, but rather a place that’s…
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Alice Austen’s Larky Life
Austen’s trajectory, like that of many artists in New York, finally hinged on the vicissitudes of real estate. At Clear Comfort, she built…
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A Master of Fashion Photography Who Embraces Accidents
For Roversi, the studio is “like an empty stage, a space waiting to be filled, a time yet to be invented, where neither seasons, nor days,…
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James Van Der Zee’s Dreamlike Images of the Departed
You could tell that he was getting back to work when the drinking stopped and the parties stopped. Sitting in uneasy silence—he hated…
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Photographing How Texas Shapes Its Youth
Eli Durst’s images of activities that instruct and influence children—R.O.T.C., school plays, cheer practice—resist conformity. Source link
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The Erotics of Coreen Simpson
“The face was not important in the history of nude photography,” Simpson said, in an interview not too long ago. And what has Simpson used…
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The Guts and Glory of “Indian Rodeo”
For more than a decade, Jeremiah Murphy has been trying to capture the beauty of a deeply American sport. Source link
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The Original Brooklyn Selfie King
He’s a good-looking young man, slouching on a bed in his Brooklyn apartment, taking a selfie. Oh, has he pulled out all the stops. He has…
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We’re Still Living in Man Ray’s Shadow
The Met’s stress on quartz gun and fern—that is, on the rayographs—is a welcome departure from Man Ray’s familiar cast of naked and famous…
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Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye
How did this happen? To begin with, Shore had an uncommonly encouraging and generous family. His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that…
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The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy
In postwar Italy, the decisive moment was most often one of contrasts—between the wrinkled faces of the agrarian past and the…
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The Surreal Images of Erick and Elliot Jiménez
In this “El Monte,” the science of ethnography is traded for something less rigid, something more whimsical and unconstrained. Whereas…
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The Vibrant, Disappearing World of India’s Photo Studios
The Jagdish Photo Studio in Manori appeared to Ketaki Sheth as a kind of apparition. A photographer from Mumbai, Sheth owns a home in the…
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The Futility of Simulating Nature
In “The Anthropocene of Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and…
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Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Nowadays, a secondhand, first-edition copy can sell for hundreds of dollars; in August, the book will be reissued by D.A.P. as “Adrienne…
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The Price of Occupation
On January 26, 2023, Israeli soldiers, hidden in the cargo hold of a dairy truck, rode into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, where…
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Earth’s Poet of Scale
If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and…