The Era of Change Is Now

Las Fotos Project Celebrates 10 Years of Viewing Los Angeles Through the Lens of Young Women

The Era of the Girl Is Now | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

The 18 teenagers logged onto Zoom that Thursday evening had every reason to sound weary. It had been, collectively speaking, a rough week in the rough fall of 2020. During the check-in discussion of roses and thorns (highlights and lowlights, respectively), the group of 13- to 17-year-old photographers spoke about how they weren’t sleeping well. How they were worried about parents, who were essential workers on the frontlines of the pandemic. How they were having trouble studying for the SATs. How they were just feeling less passionate, in general.

But the …

by Jackie Mansky | November 18, 2020

Repainting History in Technicolor

Esiri Erheriene-Essi’s ‘Familiar Strangers’ Finds New Recognition in Photographs of the Mid-Century African Diaspora

by Jackie Mansky | October 14, 2020

The earliest colored photographs were fragile black-and-white daguerreotypes, hand-painted with a watercolor technique. The task was laborious, not to mention risky, because the plates were so easily damaged. But the …

‘Sharp and Subversive’ Scenes of Integrated 1940s Summer Camps

Gordon Parks’s Photos of Black and White Kids at Play Resisted Segregation in Nature and Beyond by Presenting a Vision of America as He Hoped It Could Be

by Amanda Martin-Hardin | July 23, 2020

One day in 1923, three white boys pushed 11-year-old Gordon Parks into the Marmaton River in rural Kansas. Parks couldn’t swim and he tumbled under the surface, the current pushing …

Where Tulare Lake Once Was, a New Telling of California’s History

Jesse Amble White’s Photographs Show Modern Landscapes That ‘Push Back at the Moment’

by Richard White | June 24, 2020

All but one of these photographs of California by Jesse White come from California Exposures, a book that he and I, his father, did together. Like all photographs, they don’t …

The Poetic Clarity of That ‘Pale Blue Dot’

Through Photography, Science Has Given Humanity a Sense of Itself

by Kianoosh Hashemzadeh | August 14, 2019

When the Voyager 1 space probe was launched in 1977, it was equipped with a camera to chronicle its travels through the cosmos. One of the images that astronomer Carl …

Can Muscle Cars Really Fly?

Matthew Porter’s Photographs of an American Symbol Conjure Dreamlike Worlds

by Kianoosh Hashemzadeh | July 25, 2019

Muscle cars are a quintessential American symbol: fast, powerful, and entirely impractical. But perhaps it’s their impracticability that makes these gas-guzzling, aggressively loud vehicles coveted by so many. Having a …

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