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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.…

The Price of Occupation

On January 26, 2023, Israeli soldiers, hidden in the cargo hold of a dairy truck, rode into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, where the Magnum photographer Sakir Khader was…

Earth’s Poet of Scale

If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and consuming: the transformation of the atmosphere.…

Sink or Swim

He was surprised by what he found in California: “I guess in your imagination you see four or five people wandering around, where in reality it’s piles, crowds of people moving around, so…

An Enduring Archive of Queer Writers’ Portraits

Giard grew up in a working-class family in Hartford, Connecticut. When he entered public high school, he was shunted onto the remedial track, because, as he wrote, “it was simply assumed…

Diane Arbus and the Too-Revealing Detail

A photographer’s legacy, though, is not like a painter’s: Arbus didn’t leave signed prints hanging around, like canvases drying in a storeroom. Instead, faced with more than seven thousand…

Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”

It’s an epic display of small ideas. But what gives the exhibition its coherence is Johnson’s consistent—if tonally varied—engagement with literature. “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” is named…

How American Photography Came Into Its Own

The earliest photography was voracious and encyclopedic. There was a whole world of things that had never been seen in this particular, startlingly realistic way. People were especially…

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…

The New York Times Wins 4 Pulitzer Prizes

The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prize awards on Monday, including for reporting on Sudan’s civil war and the failures of the United States in the war in Afghanistan, as well as…

Pulitzer Prizes: 2025 Winners List

PUBLIC SERVICE ProPublica The Pulitzer committee honored ProPublica for the work of Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz for what it called “urgent…

The Secrets of Physique Magazines

I remember the first time I saw a physique photograph, and I remember being both excited and upset at the sight of it. I was probably eight or nine, a child of the postwar boom, and on…