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Perspective | These famously controversial photos have been resurrected anew Richard Billingham’s “Ray’s a Laugh” took the art world by storm when it was first published. It’s back now in a revised edition, as the photographer intended.

Review | Two photographers traveled America. One became a star. The other vanished. Robert Frank and Todd Webb traveled the U.S. in 1955. A show of their work will make you see America, and photography, with freshly rinsed eyes.

Perspective | The things we do can come at a heavy cost, even photography Photographer Louie Palu’s project “Cage Call” illuminates the environmental impact of photography.

See the Beatles’ First Tour Through Paul McCartney’s Lens Sixty years after the Beatles appeared live on “Ed Sullivan,” McCartney reflects on his photos capturing those halcyon days. The Brooklyn Museum will exhibit them, and some will be for sale later.

Many California native plants adapt to fire. Some are threatened by it. After wildfires some plants resprout, some reseed, others don’t burn at all. Many survive.

Cindy Sherman: Woman of an Uncertain Age “I’m not going to go into this aging process silently or happily,” said the artist, who is emerging from a creative slump with electrifying new work.

Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves A photographer trained two rats to take photographs of themselves. They didn’t want to stop.

Artists of Color Ask: When Is Visibility a Trap? In “Going Dark” at the Guggenheim, 28 artists explore urgent questions around what it means to be seen, and to see each other.

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When photography conservation is detective work | CONSERVATION STORIES Watch a video about conservators and scientists trying to save an artwork from itself.Rosângela Rennó’s Wedding Landscape (1996) is made up of layers of larg...

Photographer Nan Goldin’s Brief But Spectacular take on survival Nan Goldin is a renowned photographer and activist whose work has documented LGBTQ+ subcultures, the AIDS crisis and the opioid epidemic. Recently, Goldin an...

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Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander Working in his California home 3,000 miles away during Covid, the director struck a sympathetic chord with the venerated photographer. A book and two gallery shows resulted.

New book highlights the work and perspectives of underrepresented photographers A 2018 survey found that only 18 percent of photojournalists worldwide were women. Women Photograph is a nonprofit group working to elevate more female and n...

Call Them Dissidents. But Don’t Call Them Feminists. Over the last 60 years, Brazil’s women artists made work about universal rights abuses, not gender issues, a new show finds. “It was all of us, all citizens, who didn’t have rights.”

Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again In 1978, a Fort Worth museum convinced the famed photographer to document the West, as he saw it. Now, 13 of those haunting portraits are back on view.

Kwame Brathwaite, 85, Photographer With a Lens on Black Pride, Is Dead Part of the “Black is beautiful” movement during the civil rights era, he trained his camera on athletes, musicians and models as well as everyday people.

When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood An enigmatic photograph by America’s most famous landscape photographer led to a forensic hunt to identify exactly when and where it was taken.

A Photographer Frames His Own American South Tommy Kha’s portraits blends his Asian heritage with the mythology of the South.

Huge Collection of Robert Frank's Photos Valued at Nearly $3 Million One image is expected to fetch nearly $200,000.

The moody magic of a long exposure photograph | Ming Smith | UNIQLO ArtSpeaks Photography curator Oluremi Onabanjo examines Smith’s 1991 "Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere," a poignant image from this series inspired by Ralph Elliso...

Ming Smith’s Poetic Blur This streetlight mystic shows her painterly photography at MoMA in an archive that celebrates long exposures and perceptual improvisation.

Community Darkrooms - An ILFORD Inspires Film In the fourth and final episode of ILFORD Inspires New York Silver Stories, we explore two community darkrooms in New York City: Bushwick Community Darkroom...

Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94 He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like “Wavelength.”

Within Himself, an African Photographer Finds Multitudes A studio portraitist turns the lens on flamboyant alter egos in his first solo U.S. museum exhibition at Princeton.

Jeanne Dielman: Film directed by woman picked as best ever Chantal Akerman's film Jeanne Dielman, released in 1975, is considered a seminal feminist work.

The Photo Issue: The Real Americana These images capture a joy, pride and love of a country that speak to the true American spirit.

How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible Before he became a writer, Ralph Ellison was an emerging photographer. Rarely-seen documentary images, gathered in a forthcoming book, reveal his lifelong engagement with the camera.

Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream The photographer moved effortlessly between scenes: No Wave music, performance, q***r subcultures, downtown nightlife, the Pictures Generation and mail art.

The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist In the largest show of his career, Boris Mikhailov casts a mordant eye over 60 years of Ukraine’s history.