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Leaving leftovers in her backyard, Lia Darjes creates a stage for a series of improvised tableaux.

Faustine’s photography was a love letter to New York—and a fierce assertion of Black presence in public spaces and collective history.

An exhibition contends with the role of images, policy, and activism in forming our relationship to labor and the American Dream.

Looking back at Mann’s book “At Twelve,” we see how much change lies ahead for each of the young women she pictured.

Smith’s poetic and experimental images are icons of twentieth-century Black life. In an interview, she speaks about her life and career—and the transcendent power of photography.

For more than half a century, Celmins has produced absorbing paintings and drawings that are often inspired by—and mistaken for—photographs. Here, she speaks with Richard Learoyd about images, surfaces, and illusion.

A profusion of paintings derived from movie stills and online screenshots reveals a shared impulse to understand—and transform—images’ strange power over us.

After the novelist Garth Greenwell was assigned to write about Mark Armijo McKnight’s photographs, the two men bonded over their shared themes of queer sex and intimacy.

M'hammed Kilito, Zagora Oasis, Morocco, 2022

In the Emirates, the Sharjah Biennial convenes artists who speak about survival and solidarity at a time of dispossession.

From the Japanese artists who transformed photography to Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits of the haute bourgeoisie, here are must-read titles this Women’s History Month.

Since the late 1960s, Sugiura has defied the expectations of the art world with hybrid, dreamlike forms that test the limits of photographic expression.

To mitigate the crushing sameness of AI imagery, two researchers are turning to photographs made during the Great Depression.

The choreographer Alvin Ailey created some of the most important dances of the twentieth century. But what is the connection between his distinct art and the ephemeral image?

Like diaries or zines, small-scale publications have both an intimacy and air of rebellion.

David Gilbert’s colorful studio photographs feel intensely private, like a scrapbook for a tightly knit circle of friends.

The photographer reflects on her experience working in Latin America and why it’s essential to revisit a body of work over time.

From Arielle Bobb-Willis’s vividly playful tableaux to Ernest Cole’s incisive photographs of America in the late 1960s, here are essential titles to read this Black history month.