Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway
To ensure his photos would not be confiscated by authorities, Walker Evans entrusted a trove of 46 prints made in 1933 Havana to his friend — Ernest Hemingway.Read more »
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Mel Rosenthal, Seeking Justice With a Camera
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Mel Rosenthal, Seeking Justice With a Camera
Mel Rosenthal, the photographer and teacher whose “In the South Bronx of America” showcased his passion for the underdog, is remembered by Ricky Flores, one of his many former students.Read more »
Joseph Rodriguez’s El Barrio in the ‘80s
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Joseph Rodriguez’s El Barrio in the ’80s
A new book revisits Joseph Rodriguez’s first project, a yearslong look at El Barrio, which was once the heart of New York’s Puerto Rican community.Read more »
A Storytelling Revival in Mississippi
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A Storytelling Revival in Mississippi
To honor the bicentennial of Mississippi’s statehood, residents throughout the state are telling the stories of their own communities with photographs using the 21st century technology of smartphones.Read more »
The Unseen Julia Child
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The Unseen Julia Child
While Julia Child was capturing France through its cuisine, it was that same French magic that inspired her husband, Paul, to capture the country through photography. Read more »
The Untold Quiet of Kurdish Iraq
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The Untold Quiet of Kurdish Iraq
Lam Duc-Hien, a Vietnamese photographer, first imagined Iraq to be full of tanks and violence. But after documenting the Kurdish region of Iraq for more than two decades, he found something very different.Read more »
Quirky Photos of Small Town Halloween
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Quirky Photos of Small Town Halloween
For several years, Timothy Archibald has photographed how his neighbors in El Sobrante, Calif., celebrate Halloween.Read more »
Beauty, Politics and Humor in a Rapidly Changing City
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Beauty, Politics and Humor in a Rapidly Changing City
Richard Sandler’s images of New York from 1977 to 2001 show a city in transition from bust to boom. He wonders if it was a fair trade.Read more »
Aperture at 65: Changing the ‘Cult’ of Photography
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Aperture at 65: Changing the ‘Cult’ of Photography
From its early days championing art photography to today’s shaping of personal identity on social media, Aperture has been leading the conversation on photography for 65 years.Read more »
Italy’s 81-Year-Old ‘Bride of the Sea’
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Italy’s 81-Year-Old ‘Bride of the Sea’
Annalisa Marchionna returned to a coastal town she visited as a child to photograph a fisherwoman who lives her life in rhythm with the sea. Read more »
Finding Inspiration in the Struggle at Resurrection City
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Finding Inspiration in the Struggle at Resurrection City
Jill Freedman left behind a career in advertising to live at Resurrection City, an encampment on the National Mall that was part of the Poor Peoples Campaign. Her pictures show a different, human and optimistic side to a historical event that has been labeled a failure by some. Read more »
