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Photographs of Mali on the Cusp of Independence

We see this, for example, in an untitled portrait sometimes called “Two Ladies of Bamako.” Here, Keïta captures a pair of women—holding each other at the shoulders and the hands—dressed in…

William Eggleston’s Lonely South

Eggleston, however, used color in a different way: he employed the bright shock effect of advertising—Drink Coca-Cola! Drive this Buick!—but separated it from capitalism. There’s so much…

Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board

Visually, Mitchell’s images are sumptuous, stylish, and seductive, channelling the old-school photographic glamour epitomized by Richard Avedon, one of Mitchell’s idols. Conceptually,…

Photographing How Texas Shapes Its Youth

Eli Durst’s images of activities that instruct and influence children—R.O.T.C., school plays, cheer practice—resist conformity. Source link

Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye

How did this happen? To begin with, Shore had an uncommonly encouraging and generous family. His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that his nephew was a budding tinkerer and gave him a…

The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy

In postwar Italy, the decisive moment was most often one of contrasts—between the wrinkled faces of the agrarian past and the well-tailored suits of Italy’s economic boom, between…

The Surreal Images of Erick and Elliot Jiménez

In this “El Monte,” the science of ethnography is traded for something less rigid, something more whimsical and unconstrained. Whereas Cabrera sought to present a faithful documentation of…

The Futility of Simulating Nature

In “The Anthropocene of Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.…

Reëxamining Victimhood in Guatemala

While Corzo was working on the book, he learned that Walter Barahona, the brother of one of the gang’s leaders, José Luis Barahona, was being held in a prison known as Little Hell, in a…

Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity

Last year, on the occasion of Taschen’s reissue of “Workers” (originally published in 1993), I had the chance to interview Salgado over video chat. He was in Paris, sitting in his studio,…

The Everyday Dramas of Manhattan Rush Hour

Salacuse is the kind of person who always seems to have a project or five under way. I first met him in 2000, and we’ve been friends ever since. (We are now colleagues-in-law, too: his…