photographers

Gerald Cyrus’s Magnificent Images of Black Life
I first came across Cyrus’s photographs in 2024, when I discovered a slim booklet of his, “Harlem Nights 1990-2001,” at the Photographers’ Gallery bookshop, in London. His images of boundless,...
The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola
I went to high school in the late nineteen-seventies myself, and “American Teen” made me nostalgic for how hanging out felt then, powered by the implicit guarantee that between classes...
How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles
Jerry Hsu grew up in San Jose, about an hour south of San Francisco, and, for a time, he assumed he would never leave. He didn’t need to. In the...
The Lonely Men at the End of the World
In Patagonia, los puesteros look after other people’s livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else. Source link
The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era
The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era
Photography subjects can be self-conscious, but, for the most part, the subjects of Nishimura’s portfolio weren’t. As he pointed out, White House reporters are used to being surveilled. The shots...
A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids
A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids
For the rest of the decade—the years represented by these Polaroids—she was booked and busy. “It was such a period of growth for me as a photographer,” Shur told me....
Mark Power’s Uncanny Photographs of Construction Sites
Mark Power’s Uncanny Photographs of Construction Sites
Mark Power’s “Fashion” lavishes formal attention on industrial machinery and, by extension, on the human effort behind it. Source link
Life in the Thatcher Era, Along Britain’s Longest Thoroughfare
Life in the Thatcher Era, Along Britain’s Longest Thoroughfare
It can be no coincidence that a version of Thatcher’s blue recurs, in different incarnations, throughout Graham’s book. It is the blue of the overalls of the lorry driver seated...
The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa’s Photographs
The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa’s Photographs
It’s an understatement to say that we live in a world that is at least partially defined by a surfeit of images, and that the photographs we like, or remember,...
How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
That picture, “Burial of an Unknown Child,” became the defining image of the disaster, a depiction of tragedy so viscerally infused with loss that, even today, it appears on banners...
An Expat Photographer Seduced by Mexican Ritual
An Expat Photographer Seduced by Mexican Ritual
Hurst didn’t become a writer, but he fashioned himself into the kind of character that a writer might wish they had imagined: an astute antiquarian, a swashbuckling adventurer, a pioneering...
Emmet Gowin’s American Family
Emmet Gowin’s American Family
Yet there’s very little drama in Gowin’s pictures, and any plot is sketchy or buried. The elders here are generally all of a piece—stoic, patient, dressed as simply and modestly...