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Photograph
Still images made by materials sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation, generally via a chemical action on the sensitive surface.
Basics to get you started

Early photography: Niépce, Talbot, and Muybridge

Ansel Adams: visualizing a photograph

The Pictures Generation

Surrealist Photography

Staging the Egyptian harem for Western eyes

Lang Jingshan and early Chinese photography

How photographs of poverty in the Americas ignited an international battle over propaganda

New Topographics

An interview with Robert Frank

An interview with Dayanita Singh

An interview with Sunil Gupta

Graciela Iturbide, photographing Mexico

Mickalene Thomas on Seydou Keïta

Photography in 19th-century India

The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid

Peaks and perils: The life of Carleton Watkins

Costumbrismo

An interview with Anselm Kiefer

An interview with Sheba Chhachhi

The YBAs: The London-based Young British Artists

The Case for Ai Weiwei

Shirin Neshat, ‘Dreams Are Where Our Fears Live’

Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’

Omar Victor Diop: Black subjects in the frame

Lorna Simpson – ‘Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire’

Mickalene Thomas on her materials and artistic influences

Naeem Mohaiemen
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