The Fringes of Society from America to India, Chile to Nigeria
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, an exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery, looks at artists capturing those on the margins of society through the photographic medium. Many powerful images made in the 20th and 21st century “are the result of a determined and often prolonged engagement with communities seemingly at odds with, or... Read More
Past Photos of the Day
Linda Connor's Developer Tray, 2011. © John Cyr
New Images from John Cyr, Darkroom Romantic
May 21, 2018 • Conceptual/Still Life
KRS-1 & Ms. Melodie, Bronx 1988. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of
African American History and Culture, © Janette
Beckman
Looking at Hip-Hop Within A Long Tradition of Blac...
May 18, 2018 • Celebrity/Entertainment
SYRIA. Semalka Border. Rojava. Torin Khairegi, 18, in Zinar base © Newsha
Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
The First Issue of Magnum’s Free Newspaper Looks a...
May 17, 2018 • Documentary/Photojournalism
“Uterine Sound Handle (CHD)” 4"x5" digitally printed plexi glass plate, 2016-2018. Duke University's History of Medicine Collections, David M...
Visualizing the Early Tools of Childbirth
May 16, 2018 • Science/Nature
L’écrin du rajah aka The Rajah’s Casket (di. Gaston Velle: Pathé Frères, France, 1906). From Dreaming in Color: The Davide Turconi Collect...
Dreamy Colors from the Earliest Years of Cinema
May 15, 2018 • Historical
Marcel Duchamp, NYC, 1942. © Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
One Hundred Years of Arnold Newman
May 14, 2018 • Historical
Mrs Tate, 1973 © John Myers courtesy RRB PhotoBooks
Under Appreciated Portraits (Until Now) of England...
May 11, 2018 • Portraits/Portraiture
From ‘The Gamblers’ © Martin Amis courtesy RRB PhotoBooks
A Gambler’s Look at Gamblers
May 10, 2018 • Documentary/Photojournalism
William Wylie’s “Peristyle, House of the Colored Capitals or House of Ariadne (VII.4.31),” 2015. © William Wylie/Yale University Art Gall...