Producer/Director Joe Stankus creates a documentary that is beautiful and mysterious. The video’s locale is NYC and stars Jay Giampietro, an Instagram street photographer who snaps pictures of compelling subjects. Giampietro points his camera at various types of people to … Continued

NEW YORK STORIES: VINTAGE POSTWAR PHOTOGRAPHS at the Keith de Lellis Gallery showcases 14 photographers who captured the contours and contrasts of the city. The black and white photos explore daily life from 1945 to 1975. Through their lens, these … Continued

As one of three winners of the annual J. Paul Getty Medal Award, Ed Ruscha has created a love song to Los Angeles in the way of a short video. Channeling the Beat Generation writer, Jack Kerouac, Ruscha reads from … Continued

Brenda Ann Kenneally’s photography book, Upstate Girls, throws two middle fingers in the faces of Instagram’s airbrushed babydolls. While social media binges on mink eyelashes, Botoxed brows and luxury collections of every persuasion, Kenneally’s photography records the grating realities of … Continued

Diane Arbus loved misfits. In Untitled, the current exhibition of her work at David Zwirner which includes sixty-six images of New York’s finest oddballs, the last years of Arbus’s life lay bare her perspective. Following her suicide, the Museum of … Continued

Few cities in the world receive as many artistic tributes as New York, New York. Roughly 3,800 songs hit the charts, marking time to the city that doesn’t sleep. Countless painters, sculptors, and performers. Infinite strokes of genius. But we’re … Continued

Born Usher (Arthur) Fellig at the turn of the 20th Century, Weegee was, and still is, famous for his graphic crime scene photos taken during the 1930s and 40s on New York City’s Lower East Side. The startling black & … Continued

Everyone has a story, but not all stories hold our attention, even in the case of artists and photographers. Many follow predictable paths toward addiction and untimely death, or toward off-the-chain success. However, Henri Cartier-Bresson, the foundational French sugar daddy … Continued

Ed van der Elsken photographed with a conviction that exposed the vulnerabilities of his subjects like cracks on the painted eyes of dolls. During the ‘50s and ‘60s, he indulged in the cultures of Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo and Osaka and … Continued

One of the most thrilling documentaries for fashionable New Yorkers—among many others—was the 2010 feature, Bill Cunningham: New York. The ubiquitous, not to mention quite delightful, New York Times street photographer and journalist was always seen riding around the city … Continued