Mel Rosenthal’s South Bronx Activism and Engagement
A new exhibit of Mel Rosenthal’s seminal South Bronx images shows a photographer committed to the community he documented.Read more »
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Capturing the Love, and Psyches, of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
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Capturing the Love, and Psyches, of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Marcel Sternberger’s portraits of the famed Mexican artists manage to show his ability to deeply delve into the emotions and thoughts of his subjects.Read more »
Murdered After Defending Thailand’s Environment
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Murdered After Defending Thailand’s Environment
A series of photos enshrine Thai activists at sites where they were killed after opposing powerful economic interests.Read more »
The Week in Pictures: May 20
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The Week in Pictures: May 20
Photos from The New York Times and photographers from around the world. Read more »
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 »
