How the Belgian artist models his work on photographs and film stills to evoke history and trigger memories.
Before he died in the early 1990s, the Bronx-born artist used family pictures throughout his singular work in photography, drawing, and painting.
In his collaborations with influential literary figures and performers, Hosoe created surreal scenes that invoke the fantastic.
The Colombian artist deployed a practice of wit, charm, humor, and exaggeration in his photography, uncovering the “truths” beneath cultural conventions.
The artist’s visual jokes, out-of-place expressions, and even a cutout of his own face mark his presence in the world—and tell a story about Asian American identity.
For more than fifty years, Charles “Teenie” Harris created a vivid record of the city. Now, a major archival project stands to reveal the scope of his vision.
In her final book, Malcolm reflects on her career-long preoccupation with photography—and considers memory as both muse and captor.
From Nottingham living rooms to New York dance floors and Los Angeles’s surf scene, the British photographer has created records of subcultures that brim with life.
As artists experiment with this fast-evolving technology, they uncover creative opportunity, absurdity, and bias.
Aside from portraits capturing her own nervy glamour, how might we consider the iconic writer through photography?
What does “Lucky Breaks,” Yevgenia Belorusets’s foreboding book of fiction and documentary pictures, tell us about the cycles of history and myth in Ukraine?
In images made before the Russian invasion in 2022, three Ukrainian photographers preserve social memory—and witness a nation striving to define its sovereignty.
A remarkable exhibition by the two artists charts a visionary path through the landscapes of the South.
In the late 1960s, Parks chronicled the young activist organizing voters, speaking at rallies, and advocating for Black self-determination.
Qiana Mestrich’s vintage pictures of Black women at work—including her own mother—show the role women of color play in the workplace.
The newsmagazine’s iconic and influential photo-essays were a collective effort. For contemporary artists, they’re rich territory for the interrogation of print media.
A new volume shows how McGee’s photographs record the conspiratorial energy and daring acts of street art, a practice fundamental to his work in painting, drawing, zines, and installation.
The Norwegian who pioneered photography in Scandinavia was always training his lens on the objects that we overlook, offering black-and-white scenes scorched of excess.
The spring 2024 issue, “Counter Histories,” is produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and features photographers from around the world who reframe complex histories.