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Life doesn’t happen in black and white. Looking at the majority of photographer Garry Winogrand’s portfolio, primarily shot in black and white, it’s easy to stop short of using the imagination to add color to the images. This year’s exhibition … Continued

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Celebrating the photographers who have played a critical role in bringing hip-hop’s visual culture to the global stage, CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop is an inside look at the work of hip-hop photographers, as told through their unedited … Continued

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famous photograph of Biggie Smalls wearing a crown in front of a red background
Harold Edgerton photograph of a man's golf swing

Tension more often exists between entities than on its own. You can capture it in a photograph, or create it between an artwork and a viewer, but it can’t happen without something or someone refusing to let go. It permeates … Continued

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Mark McKnight received the 2019 Aperture Portfolio prize, which was announced this month. Though he is still relatively young in his career, McKnight’s work makes wise demands of the world–namely, to question the concepts and structures of masculine beauty. His … Continued

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mark mcknight spinning 2018
alfred eisenstaedt print of lily dache in a veil

There’s not a person alive who wouldn’t want to feel the fire immortalized in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s “V-J Day in Times Square,” taken in 1945. Controversy around the circumstances caught on film bubbled to the surface in the years that followed–the … Continued

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The Photography Show, presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) runs April 4–7 at Pier 94 in New York, with an opening preview on April 3. This year’s show features dozens of fine art photography galleries from … Continued

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sally man print of the Maury River in Virginia

The beautiful part about making work that’s rooted in your soul is that you don’t have to do a damn thing. The magic just happens. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in Houston, Texas, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings … Continued

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Fuzzy guitars stringing you along through the process of accepting that there is no happy ending. Gritty locks, fragrant with sex and salt from the night before. Ashy air curling from the cherries of a thousand chain-smoked cigarettes. Spellbinding yet … Continued

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kurt cobain brushes his teeth

No one makes it through life without looking back and wondering what it all means, how it all aligns, or why the pieces juxtapose against each other with such erratic strategy. Annie Leibovitz is no exception, and in her new … Continued

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At the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, located in lower Manhattan, New York, Donna Gottschalk’s oeuvre of courageous, captivating women line the walls. Brave, Beautiful Outlaws peels the curtains away from a view of life that society struggled … Continued

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