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The Unsung Queen of French Pictorialism

In Paris, an exhibition presents Céline Laguarde as one of France’s most significant pre-World War I photographers.
Xaviera Simmons, Sundown (Number Two), 2018

How Can Photography Shape our Relationship to the Environment?

An exhibition in Pittsburgh highlights the ways images can reveal the long-forgotten and unseen histories of ecology.

Hervé Guibert’s Seductive Photo-Novel About Two Sisters in Reclusion

The influential French writer’s book “Suzanne and Louise” is an intricate choreography of privacy, revelation, and performance, keenly testing the possibilities of its hybrid medium.

In the Mythic Mediterranean, a Labyrinth of Female Creativity

A recent exhibition at the Fondation Carmignac celebrates the infinite possibilities of womanhood.

Stephen Shore’s American Beauty

Across six decades, Shore has redefined photography—not by picturing life’s deep mysteries, but by capturing something true in the surfaces of the everyday.
John McConnico

Confronting the Legacy of Photography’s Anti-Blackness

Kimberly Juanita Brown reveals how the photographic enterprise is haunted by racial violence, finding new ways of looking at the dead and the living.

In Kyoto, a Family Portrait by Two Japanese Photographers

Tokuko Ushioda and Rinko Kawauchi make photographs to slow the passage of time, venerating the subtle textures of day-to-day living.
George Platt Lynes, Demus, 1937

One of Photography’s Most Enigmatic Love Triangles Finally Gets Its Due

In their book “Body Language,” Nick Mauss and Angela Miller show how a group of artists shaped a network of queer image culture decades before Stonewall.

An Unexpected Pairing of Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron

An exhibition shows how both photographers were engaged with classical figuration—and offers an occasion to revel in prints made centuries apart.
Phillip Pyle II, Forgotten Struggle #32, 2023

A Biennial in Houston Explores the Politics of Visibility

The latest edition of FotoFest features artists and collectives from around the world who consider the weight of history on the present.
Elaine Constantine, Steve in his kitchen, 1993–96

Picturing Britain’s Working Class after the “End of History”

An exhibition in England asks how a generation of blue-collar British photographers have responded to the rising tide of neoliberalism.
Miranda July, The Amateurist, 1997

Close Encounters with Miranda July

Through her playful and provocative collaborations with strangers, July consistently asks what we want from power, technology, and love.

A Photographer Recasts the Secret Lives of Teenage Girls

Inspired by 2000s-era teen-girl magazines, Elizabeth Renstrom uses a mix of real and AI-generated imagery to consider the ongoing effects of media on young women.

A Biennale in Bologna Considers the Role of Games in Art

Can photography be a form of play? The recent Foto/Industria Biennale shows how improvisation and mugging for the camera are as old as the medium.

The Creative Power of Barbara Ess

The artist, who died in 2021, played a crucial role in establishing downtown Manhattan as both a scene and a style.

Sally Mann, Edmund de Waal, and a Dialogue about Formalism

An exhibition pairing the celebrated photographer with the renowned ceramicist highlights their shared fascination with objects and images.

Evelyn Hofer’s Tender Gaze

A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.
Video still from The Specter of Ancestors Becoming

An Artist Sees the Potential for Healing in the Aftermath of War

In his videos and multimedia works about Vietnam, Tuan Andrew Nguyen shows how large-scale events reverberate through interpersonal stories.
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