Tag: Photography
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...
The Village Voice’s photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York...
Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology and Joshua Meltzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
When The Village Voice, the nation’s first alternative weekly, closed in late...
Making art ‘should be uncomfortable’ – a conversation with visual artist...
Christina Sharpe, Tufts University
Lorna Simpson, a pioneering visual and conceptual artist whose striking work on race, gender and identity has placed her among the...
70 years of instant photos, thanks to inventor Edwin Land’s Polaroid...
Ann Elsner, Indiana University
It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken...
Thomas Eakins: Brilliant painter, gifted photographer … sexual predator?
Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University
The recent toppling of a string of powerful figures for sexual abuse and harassment raises the question of how...
Is Ryan Kelly’s iconic photograph an American ‘Guernica’?
Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University
On August 12, Charlottesville Daily Progress photographer Ryan M. Kelly captured the exact moment that Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields, Jr....
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Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will...
Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, disaster recovery plans are almost always framed with...
