Looking at Hip-Hop Within A Long Tradition of Black Creative Achievement
“Represent: Hip-Hop Photography,” the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s latest exhibition, is on view through May 3, 2019. Inspired by DJ’s, MCs, breakdancers and graffiti – the four elements of hip-hop – “Represent” features photographs illustrating the early days of hip-hop and its rapid expansion to a cultural phenomenon in the mid-to-late... Read More
Past Photos of the Day
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...
Wylie’s Pompeii
May 9, 2018 • Fine Art
BAYADA GUMAAD
b. 1933, Lubo, Tanudan, 2013. The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga by Jake Verzosa, published by Steidl www.steidl.de
The Last Tattooed Ladies in the Land
May 8, 2018 • Portraits/Portraiture
A portrait made in Sanlé Sory’s studio, Volta Photo, where he provided backdrops and props emphasizing his subjects’ modern sophistication. ...