Tag: Photography
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....
Why do people risk their lives – or….
Why do people risk their lives – or the lives of others – for the perfect selfie?
Michael Weigold, University of Florida
2016 hasn’t been a...
Gordon Parks exhibit offers intimate glimpse into segregation-era life for African...
By Toni Pepe Dan, Boston University
In the spring of 1950, Gordon Parks, the first African-American photographer for Life Magazine, returned to his hometown of...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
