Delia’s Tears
April 27, 2021
Molly Rogers— When in 1976 fifteen daguerreotypes of black men and women were discovered in the attic of the Peabody Museum, the question of their meaning and purpose was immediately… READ MORE
Tag: photography
Ep. 82 – How Photography Became Contemporary Art
April 16, 2021
As Michael S. Roth wrote in his review in The Washington Post, “The maturation of Grundberg as a renowned critic coincides with the maturation of photography as an art form… READ MORE
Anne Brigman, Photographer
June 23, 2020
Kathleen Pyne — In 1916 Georgia O’Keeffe received from the admiring New York photographer Alfred Stieglitz a group of photogravures he had published several years earlier. These pictures of nudes… READ MORE
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
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
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