Sep 03 2026
For photographer Karen Halverson, the American landscape is never simply scenery. Roads cut across mountains, power lines interrupt distant horizons, houses cling to hillsides, dams reshape rivers, and cities press against deserts and canyons. Her photographs explore the uneasy but often beautiful meeting place between the natural world and the human desire to alter, occupy, …
May 06 2026
Born on this day, May 6, 1924, in the fishing town of Bermeo on Spain’s Basque coast, Néstor Basterretxea became one of the most versatile and influential Basque artists of the 20th century. Painter, sculptor, filmmaker, photographer, furniture designer, graphic artist, architect, writer, and creator of monumental public works, he resisted the idea that an …
Apr 19 2026
A man sits on a chair on the roof of a house until he tumbles over the edge. A bicyclist rides calmly along an Amsterdam canal and suddenly steers into the water. An artist hangs from a tree branch until his hands can no longer hold on. In another work, the same man simply sits …
Dec 09 2025
Roy DeCarava could find an extraordinary photograph in a hallway, on a subway staircase, inside a dim jazz club, or on an ordinary Harlem street. His pictures rarely shout for attention. Instead, they draw the viewer slowly into deep shadows, subtle expressions, and moments that might have vanished unnoticed if DeCarava had not been there …
Dec 03 2025
Kenneth McGowan photographed places where reality was supposed to look artificial and artificial things were designed to pass for reality. Movie sets, fake trees, masks, studio backlots, amusement attractions, stuffed Pink Panthers, and fragments of Hollywood spectacle became subjects for a photographer fascinated by the visual strangeness of Southern California. Born in Ogden, Utah, in …
Nov 29 2025
Robert D’Alessandro found one of his most enduring subjects almost everywhere he looked: hanging from houses, painted across clothing, attached to cars, displayed outside businesses, carried by individuals, and woven into the visual fabric of American life. The subject was the American flag, a symbol so familiar that it could easily disappear into the background …
Nov 25 2025
Dawoud Bey has spent more than five decades asking deceptively simple questions about photography. Who gets pictured? Who gets to control the way they are seen? What happens when a camera treats an ordinary person with the same seriousness traditionally reserved for celebrities, politicians, and historical figures? And can a photograph make a history visible …
Nov 15 2025
Robbert Flick does something unusual with landscape photography: he refuses to pretend that we experience a place in a single frozen moment. We walk through it. We turn our heads. We drive past it. Buildings disappear behind other buildings, roads carry us toward something and then away again, and landscapes change according to where we …
Nov 09 2025
Winston Vargas did not set out to create a sixty-year photographic history of one of New York City’s most important immigrant neighborhoods. He began by photographing what was around him: friends, children, storefronts, barbershops, school activities, families, people talking on sidewalks, and the ordinary streets of Washington Heights. Time transformed those photographs into something larger. …
Oct 07 2025
Born on October 7, 1903, in Hamburg, Germany, Herbert List became one of the most distinctive European photographers of the 20th century by creating images that seemed to exist somewhere between documentary observation and dream. Ancient statues cast long shadows across Greek ruins, mirrors fractured reality, young men appeared beside classical sculptures, ordinary objects acquired …
