Tag: Photography
For Black cowboys – from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas –...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
Photographer Ron Tarver grew up in Fort Gibson, a small town in Oklahoma where horses,...
When men started to obsess over six-packs
Conor Heffernan, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominals shows...
‘Joker’ fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media...
Laura M. Holzman, IUPUI
New York’s newest tourist attraction isn’t a museum, park or art installation.
It’s a stairway.
Sandwiched between apartment buildings in the Bronx, it’s...
In dandelions and fireflies, artists try to make sense of climate...
Kate Flint, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Climate change is real, it’s accelerating and it’s terrifying. We are...
Identifying a fake picture online is harder than you might think
Mona Kasra, University of Virginia
It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did,...
The forgotten legacy of gay photographer George Platt Lynes
Rebecca Fasman, Indiana University
From the late 1920s until his death in 1955, George Platt Lynes was one of the world’s most successful commercial and...
Of the trillion photos taken in 2018, which were the most...
Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon
What makes some images memorable and others easily forgotten? It’s a question I’ve been studying for nearly 20 years....
I used facial recognition technology on birds
Lewis Barnett, University of Richmond
As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
