Ansel Adams, in the beginning
March 16, 2020
A short Q and A with the author of a new book that explores the little-known early career of one of America’s most celebrated and beloved photographers: Making a Photographer:… READ MORE
Tag: photography
Six Tips for the Bird Photography Enthusiast
November 22, 2018
David Tipling— Ever since I took my first bird photo as a young teenager, I have never stopped learning and developing my technique. Perhaps that is one of the lures… READ MORE
Winslow Homer and the Camera
August 6, 2018
Dana E. Byrd and Frank H. Goodyear — Research projects can begin in many different ways. Winslow Homer and the Camera began with a phone call from a man named… READ MORE
Meditation and Photography
March 10, 2018
Stephen Batchelor— Taking photographs and practicing meditation might seem at first glance to be unrelated activities. For while photography looks outward at the visual world through the medium of a… READ MORE
The Modern Experience of Surfaces (sneak peek)
April 20, 2017
This summer, Yale University Press is delighted to publish a smart book about the transformation of photography and the visual arts around the year 1968. The book is The Recording… READ MORE
Real and Magical—diane arbus: in the beginning with Jeff L. Rosenheim and Karan Rinaldo
November 8, 2016
Rachel High– Diane Arbus (1923–1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the 20th century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators… READ MORE
Kentucky Renaissance: A Story told Through Photography
October 18, 2016
Brian Sholis– I first became aware of the creative life that flourished in mid-twentieth-century Lexington, Kentucky, around 2001. In quick succession I discovered Guy Davenport’s writing and Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s… READ MORE
That Day by Laura Wilson… January 14th, 2008
January 14, 2016
The unforgettable images in That Day: Pictures in the American West, Laura Wilson’s new book of photographs, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and… READ MORE
That Day by Laura Wilson… December 14th, 1996
December 14, 2015
The unforgettable images in That Day: Pictures in the American West, Laura Wilson’s new book of photographs, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and… READ MORE
TR Ericsson: Crackle & Drag — meet the artist
December 9, 2015
This Saturday, December 12th, we’ll be at the Aperture Foundation Holiday Book Bazaar (547 W 27th St in New York) with a fine selection of books on and of photography…. READ MORE
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