Photographs
Guanyu Xu’s Powerful Photographs of Immigration Limbo
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James Van Der Zee’s Dreamlike Images of the Departed
You could tell that he was getting back to work when the drinking stopped and the parties stopped. Sitting in uneasy silence—he hated being alone, but, spiritually, he was...
What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War
Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields. Brady’s troop of photographers appear to have sometimes moved corpses to...
KKL-JNF releases rare collection of ’40s–’50s summer photographs of childhood in Israel
"These historic photographs are a powerful reminder of the simplicity, innocence, and sense of freedom that once defined Israeli childhood," said KKL-JNF Chairwoman Ifat Ovadia-Luski.Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund...