Where would we be without our cameras?
c. 1827–now
Beginner's guide
"To collect photographs is to collect the world."
—Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)
videos + essays
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Will Wilson, Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange
Referencing the photographs of Edward Curtis, Wilson intends to produce a contemporary visual reimagining of Native American culture through his photographs.
Sally Mann, Blowing Bubbles
Sally Mann’s iconic series “Immediate Family” features intimate black-and-white photographs of the artist's children, who eat, sleep, and play in an idyllic Southern landscape.
Figures & Fictions: Santu Mofokeng
Mofokeng lives in Johannesburg where he began his career as a photojournalist, but has long been engaged with the poetic and symbolic potential of black and white photography.
Birdhead – ‘We Photograph Things That Are Meaningful To Us’
Shanghai based photographers Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, aka Birdhead, make art about everyday life in their home town.
José Yalenti, Architecture or Twilight
Two important media were intertwined in 1950s Brazil: architecture and photography.
Alexander Rodchenko, At the Telephone
At the Telephone reveals Rodchenko's ongoing interest in depicting the rapidly changing world (of newspapers, cameras, and telephones) in new and unexpected ways.
Annie Leibovitz, Queen Elizabeth II
This picture was taken to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s official state visit to the United States in 2007.
Marey, Joinville Soldier Walking
The title of the photograph, Joinville Soldier Walking, suggests that this image of lines and dots in wavy bands represents a walking soldier. But how?
Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, New York, January 1967
If the repeated face had not been the identifiably famous face of Audrey Hepburn emphatically reproduced by Avedon, this experimental photograph might not still resonate with us in the twenty-first century
Gertrud Arndt, Self-Portrait with Veil
Arndt’s choice to pose herself among so many textures, clothes, and props in Self-Portrait with Veil suggests she was well aware of the power of photography to interrogate gender roles.
Lotte Jacobi, Albert Einstein
Jacobi seems to have been able to see more facets of Einstein than the editors of Life cared to share with their readership.
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