photography
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
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...
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...
The Grandmothers Who Become Mothers Again
In “Mawmaw,” the photographer Anthony Wilson pays tribute to West Virginia women who, after one tragedy or another, care for their children’s children. Source link
Sohrab Hura’s Frozen Vision of Kashmir
If Hura had assembled “Snow” in 2019, he would have chosen only photos like these: lateral and coded, often with no humans in them. His taste for the direct...
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...
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...
How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer
Rauschenberg returned to Black Mountain for the summer of 1951. By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching at the school, along with Hazel Larsen Archer,...
China’s Shifting Relationship to the Countryside
Most of the way up the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which rises to a height of more than eighteen thousand feet, in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, there is a...
A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies
Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman....
