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"At a moment when ideas about truth and power have been disrupted, these fourteen artists consider how photography portrays and charts our experiences of technology, politics, and the social landscape."
"It would be politically convenient to read these images as a eulogy for failed revolutions, but these revolutions did not fail; power changed hands."
"As artists, we need to soldier on and work together to expand the field of the possible."
At a moment when ideas about truth have been disrupted, these artists consider how photography portrays our experiences of technology, politics, and the social landscape.
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo’s photographs reflect the ambiguities of political violence in Colombia, Cuba, and Venezuela.
How Goldin’s iconic slideshow and book became an enduring model for photographers across ages and around the world.
From Brooklyn to Bangladesh, what to read, watch, and listen to—and why to keep going.
Six photography curators consider images that have new resonance in the era of social distancing.
Taken during shelter-in-place orders, Pascal Shirley’s aerial pictures of LA are full of poetic foreboding.
As millions file for unemployment, a large-scale exhibition explores the meanings of workwear.
In Venezuela, a photographer finds spontaneous grief and joy in everyday life.
Charlie Engman’s portraits of his mother are an intimate—and provocative—exchange of mind, body, and spirit.
From Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans, the FSA photographers of the 1930s shaped a vision of the world transformed by economic crisis.
Eli Durst speaks about team-building exercises, suburban Americana, and why his photographs resist interpretation.
In the age of pandemic, the romance of the empty street becomes the terror of absence.
