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Margaret Bourke‑White, Flame Burner Ann Zarik, 1943

An Exhibition Revives the Legacy of “Life” Magazine

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.

Gordon Parks, a Brazilian Child, and an Exposé that Shocked the World

Should an American publication have tried to “rescue” a boy from poverty?

Segregation Story at Salon 94

A new exhibition at Salon 94 in New York brings to light Gordon Parks’s long-lost photographs from a breakthrough 1956 Life photoessay.

Gordon Parks "Back to Fort Scott" Opens at MFA Boston

A new exhibition at the MFA, Boston, sheds light on a forgotten photo essay by Gordon Parks from 1950.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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