The Week in Pictures: May 20
Photos from The New York Times and photographers from around the world. Read more »
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A Global and Authentic Family Album
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A Global and Authentic Family Album
Featuring deeply personal and everyday scenes, “Family Photography Now” hopes to spur viewers and photographers to examine stories that are literally closer to home, and often harder to tell.Read more »
Among Koreans, Giving Death Your Best Face
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Among Koreans, Giving Death Your Best Face
The Korean tradition of the funerary portrait — images taken years before a person’s death — inspired Juliana Sohn to offer her services to Korean-Americans wishing to be remembered as they saw themselves.Read more »
Houston’s Young Curators Look at Culture and Environment
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Houston’s Young Curators Look at Culture and Environment
A Houston museum’s Teen Council learned a lot about photography — and themselves — while curating a show of masterworks.Read more »
Why Chinatown Still Matters
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Why Chinatown Still Matters
Dean Wong’s new book on Chinese-American communities is a powerful corrective to decades of reporting on neighborhoods often represented in the cultural mainstream as exotic, insular or irrelevant.Read more »
It Was Paparazzi Ahoy When Celebrities’ Ships Docked
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It Was Paparazzi Ahoy When Celebrities’ Ships Docked
Photographs from the archives of The New York Times depict the arrival of the likes of Fred and Adele Astaire and Noël Coward.Read more »
The Week in Pictures: May 13
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The Week in Pictures: May 13
Photos from The New York Times and photographers from around the world. Read more »
The Hidden Stories of Arab Women
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The Hidden Stories of Arab Women
Rawiya, a collective of female Arab photographers, is challenging and changing how women in the region are portrayed.Read more »
Honoring a Debt to Immigrant Parents
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Honoring a Debt to Immigrant Parents
Growing up in Massachusetts, Iaritza Menjivar felt pressure to succeed and honor her Central American parents’ sacrifices. Through photography, she found an unexpected answer.Read more »
Adriane Ohanesian Wins Award for Courage in Photojournalism
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Adriane Ohanesian Wins Award for Courage in Photojournalism
Adriane Ohanesian won the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, which recognizes the work of women photojournalists, for her coverage of conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan and Darfur. Read more »
Reclaiming the Photographic Narrative of African Americans
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Reclaiming the Photographic Narrative of African-Americans
A new issue of Aperture magazine explores images of African-Americans that not only challenge long-held narratives about race, but also redefine them.Read more »
