A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds
Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me rethink all this. The work was made concurrently…
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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…
An Indigenous Community’s Spiritual Haunting
In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth suicides. Source link
Lagos Is a Vortex of Energy
The British Nigerian photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare took note of those aspects, capturing daily Lagos in his recent book, “Èkó,” a collage of scenes and portraits from the city, taken…
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. Source link
‘Sinners’: Ruth E. Carter on How Historical Photography Inspired Her Costume Designs
Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) as they return to the Mississippi Delta to open a juke joint, only for Irish vampires to interrupt their…
Fashion Salutes Martin Parr, a Photographer Who Saw Glamor in the Gritty
LONDON – Fashion figures paid tribute to the British photographer Martin Parr, known for his color-saturated images of middle England and knack for finding glamor in provincial settings,…
A Greenlandic Photographer’s Tender Portraits of Daily Life
The stark Greenlandic landscape is a persistent presence in Storch’s photos, and low, horizontal sunlight is everywhere. In one of Storch’s pictures, an old man on a wooden porch angles…
Feminist Supernatural Drama ‘The Difficult Bride’ Unveils Cast as Rubaiyat Hossain Wraps Principal Photography (EXCLUSIVE)
Acclaimed Bangladeshi director Rubaiyat Hossain, known for her powerful women-centric films, has completed principal photography in Dhaka on her feminist supernatural drama “The Difficult…
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander Revisits Her Archives and Early Shoots with Kate Moss, Taylor Swift and More
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander’s fashion and portrait photography has been featured in multiple publications and museum exhibits since the early 1990s, but over the past decade, the New…
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
There is something inspiring about an ugly building. I don’t mean high-concept ugly, like a brutalist tower, but rather a place that’s provisional, and purely functional, if barely—your…
Alice Austen’s Larky Life
Austen’s trajectory, like that of many artists in New York, finally hinged on the vicissitudes of real estate. At Clear Comfort, she built an existence of remarkable self-determination—for…
A Master of Fashion Photography Who Embraces Accidents
For Roversi, the studio is “like an empty stage, a space waiting to be filled, a time yet to be invented, where neither seasons, nor days, nor hours exist.” He is clearly caught up in the…
Annie Leibovitz and Gloria Steinem Celebrate the Second Volume of ‘Women’
Even though Annie Leibovitz prefers to be behind-the-scenes, she was the main attraction for a cocktail party Wednesday night at Gallery 525. The New York crowd gathered for the debut of…
James Van Der Zee’s Dreamlike Images of the Departed
You could tell that he was getting back to work when the drinking stopped and the parties stopped. Sitting in uneasy silence—he hated being alone, but, spiritually, he was always…
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
Photographer Rodney Smith’s Otherworldliness Is Evident in Two Exhibitions and New Book
Ten years after the death of the photographer Rodney Smith, his work is the focus of two exhibitions, and Rizzoli will release a book about his extensive career next month. “Rodney Smith:…
Wall Covering Firm Backdrop’s Fresh Spin on Schumacher’s Archives
Is Backdrop Schumacher’s rebellious little sister? Backdrop cofounder and creative director Natalie Ebel said that description sounds pretty accurate. “We’re really playful,” she told WWD.…
The Erotics of Coreen Simpson
“The face was not important in the history of nude photography,” Simpson said, in an interview not too long ago. And what has Simpson used to obscure the faces of the subjects in her…
‘Arthur Elgort: Model & Muses’ Offers Lessons About Fashion and Life
Having amassed thousands of photographs and hours upon hours of video footage from his innumerable fashion shoots, Arthur Elgort is about to take strangers behind-the-scenes through a new…
The Guts and Glory of “Indian Rodeo”
For more than a decade, Jeremiah Murphy has been trying to capture the beauty of a deeply American sport. Source link
The Original Brooklyn Selfie King
He’s a good-looking young man, slouching on a bed in his Brooklyn apartment, taking a selfie. Oh, has he pulled out all the stops. He has mounted an old-fashioned plate camera atop a…
We’re Still Living in Man Ray’s Shadow
The Met’s stress on quartz gun and fern—that is, on the rayographs—is a welcome departure from Man Ray’s familiar cast of naked and famous people. His first batch, “Champs délicieux”…
A New Photography Book Confirms Demarchelier as One of Fashion’s Eternal Talents
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. The late Patrick Demarchelier was one of fashion‘s most…