“Aperture Remix,” installation view (all images courtesy the Aperture Foundation) The Aperture Foundation, created in 1952, did much to alter photography’s reputation at a time when it was not yet ...

Andy Grundberg was the photography critic of the New York Times from 1981 to 1991. He later served as the director of the Ansel Adams Center for Photography in San Francisco and as chair of the ...

NEW YORK — One of the first photographs in An-My Lê's retrospective “Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières” is of a group of people staring up at the sky. The show runs through ...

Through more than 120 photographs by more than four dozen leading contemporary artists, the exhibition explores the phenomenon of “people watching” as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Contemporary photography is an art form in constant motion. Enabled by evolving digital technology and expanding creativity, today’s photographers reinvent ...

Robert Frank, "New York City, 7 Bleecker Street" (1993), gelatin silver print, 15 15/16 x 19 13/16 inches (∼40.48 x 50.32 cm); Museum of Modern Art (all images courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York) ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The exhibition “Speaking with Light” is a provocative group show featuring landmark images captured by more than 30 contemporary Indigenous photographers. It ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

FITCHBURG — Two new photography exhibits at the Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM) feature striking images by artists whose work tell stories in different ways. Tara Sellios’s “Ask Now the Beasts” exhibit ...

A World In Common at Tate Modern. Tate Modern/Lucy Green The last large survey exhibition of African photography by a major western gallery was In/Sight at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1996.

In 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest known surviving photograph with a camera obscura, a “dark room” that anticipated the camera and required an exposure of several days.

One of Eckert's techniques involves using a composite body view camera mounted on a tripod. He focuses by using notches carved into the focus rail. Then, he throws his studio into total darkness, ...