Inside the Harem (3 Photos)

November 4, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> &copy; Lalla Essaydi/Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York &ldquo;Harem,&rdquo; a new exhibition of work by photographer Lalla Essaydi, opens today at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. Essaydi took the series of photos in a former harem in Morocco. She usually swathed the women she photographed in robes that echo the patterns in the harem&rsquo;s traditional decorative tile. &copy; Lalla Essaydi/Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York Born in Morocco, raised in Saud...</span>

Dia de los Muertos (10 photos)

November 1, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> All photos &copy; Maya Joseph-Goteiner Dia de los Muertos, (Day of the Dead) is a tradition that celebrates life and encourages human contact with the dead. In the Oaxacan region of Mexico, every town has its unique rituals. My intention with these images is to highlight the warmth and communal sensibility of the holiday. Children and grownups dress up, gathering in the cemeteries to be close to their beloved family members who have passed. Music and ...</span>

Portraits of the Mind (4 photos)

October 29, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> &copy; Thomas Deerinck and Mark Ellisman. Above: Photomicrograph of a neuron&rsquo;s cell body (top, center) and its dendrites radiating out of it, obtained with a scanning electron microscope. On Monday, November 1, 2010, Abrams will release Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century By Carl Schoonover; Foreword by Jonah Lehrer. Portraits of the Mind follows the fascinating history of our exploration of the brain throug...</span>

Irving Penn: 20 Metal Pieces

October 28, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> "20 Metal Pieces," New York, 1980. &copy; The Irving Penn Foundation Opening tonight at the Pace/MacGill Gallery is Irving Penn: Arch&aelig;ology, an exhibit featuring over twenty platinum still lifes. Penn&rsquo;s archaeology pictures investigate the visual intrigue of seemingly inconsequential debris and junk &mdash; plumbing fittings, steel fragments, bolts and bones &mdash; in the exquisitely executed medium of platinum. Dedicated to the art of meticulously handcrafted p...</span>

Art Wolfe: Unbridled (4 photos)

October 27, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> All photos &copy; Art Wolfe. Above: Connective Glance, Bahia, Brazil. Well-established as a landscape and wildlife photographer, I began my love affair with the horse on the Serengeti Plain of Tanzania and Kenya, where vast herds of zebras, spirited and wild, cross the open landscape. Naturally my lens turned toward the zebra&rsquo;s domesticated cousin as a symbol of power, grace and form. In these new impressions I explore Brazil&rsquo;s culturally diverse Pant...</span>

Young Photographers Auction (5 photos)

October 26, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> &copy; Daniel Kramer. Above: Bob Dylan With Peter Yarrow &amp; John Hammond Jr. Hailing Taxi 1965, NYC. On October 12th, the Young Photographers Alliance (YPA) hosted their second annual award ceremony and benefit auction at New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Pavilion. Six young photography students were presented with cash scholarships by photography icons Barbara Bordnick, Timothy Greenfield Sanders, Ron Haviv, Eric Meola, Doug Menuez and Michel Tcherevkoff. The s...</span>

Nature Within (3 photos)

October 25, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> &copy; Becky Holladay. Above: Buffalo Ranch, Oklahoma, 2007 Nature Within showcases the recent works of eighteen photographers, all of whom are graduates of the International Center of Photography&rsquo;s full time programs. The photographers are from diverse backgrounds and originate from 8 different countries. Their photographic genre ranges from documentary and photojournalism to conceptual. In a world and society faced with monumental environmental issu...</span>

Dalai Lama and Faces of Tibet (3 photos)

October 22, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> All Photos &copy; Alison Wright. Above: Tibetan nomad girl in Degang Valley, Kham, eastern Tibet. Alison Wright has spent her career of more than two decades photographing endangered cultures in the most remote regions of the world. Working as a social documentary photographer she was inspired to start the Faces of Hope Foundation. The foundation helps to provide medical care to children and communities around the world. Wright will be an artist in re...</span>

The Eskimo Cookbook (9 photos)

October 21, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> All photos &copy; Brian Adams. When I was first introduced to The Eskimo Cookbook, I knew that I was in possession of something precious and perhaps even sacred. The paper-and-staple cookbook written by students of the Shishmaref Day School in 1951 details traditional Native Alaskan recipes for everything from Polar Bear to Whale in the simplistic language of children; the instructions are often without measurements, cooking temperatures, or times and...</span>

Human Notes

October 20, 2010 <span class="excerpt_part"> &copy; Keith Johnson/Panopticon Gallery. Above: Mac Music, Chicago, IL, 2010 Keith Johnson received his MFA from RISD studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind following a year at Visual Studies Workshop with Nathan Lyons. He supports his fine art making as a consultant in the northeast and is on the summer faculty at CPW, Penland School of Crafts, VSW, Maine Media Workshop, and Jackson Hole Art Association. To see more of Johnson&rsquo;s work click he...</span>