An exhibition at the International Center of Photography offers an expansive take on how images can be used to create, sustain, and destroy intimacy.
An exhibition in Switzerland explores the intersection between photobook publishing and art forms that combine text and image.
Kyotographie is distinct among photo festivals for its clever site-specific exhibitions in many of the city’s stunning locations.
How does the Polish artist transform seemingly simple movements into significant emblems?
In a dual exhibition, Lebohang Kganye and Sue Williamson consider trauma, healing, and the potential for transformation.
Claudia Andujar has advocated for the Yanomami people throughout her career. In a major exhibition, her photographs coexist with Indigenous voices.
A rare exhibition of the influential photographer’s work highlights one year of prodigious creativity.
The newly opened Centre for British Photography promises to be an expansive and collaborative public-facing institution. Can it deliver?
In Los Angeles, an exhibition traces the ideas that animate Barth’s work—and asks how photographic vision affects perception and experience.
A landmark exhibition makes the case for the Arte Povera movement’s lasting influence on lens-based conceptual art.
The feminist artist’s early photomontages from the 1960s and ’70s present a world both striking and deeply familiar in its critique of patriarchy and consumerism.
From the daguerreotype to the iPhone, “Mining Photography” explores how the exploitation of labor and the environment has always shadowed the medium’s history.
A long-awaited retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum celebrates the photographer’s work while avoiding the self-congratulatory drama of a rescue mission.
Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.
A recent exhibition at the the Pompidou Center reflects on how artists sought to produce new forms of culture amid the tumult of 1920s Germany.
The complex, finely calibrated messages of the FotoFest Biennial provoke difficult questions about what art can actually do for society beyond illustration.
With visual verve and curatorial energy, the exhibitions in the latest edition of FotoFocus ask how artists can depict and inspire change in unprecedented times.
Working in fashion and reportage, the photographer cultivated a distinctive visual language. Her retrospective is a window into history in Berlin.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
