A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVII. The new exhibition of Taryn Simon at MOMA looks like the great archives of particular stories. Four years of intensive travel…
Author Jonas Cuénin
In the 1950s, Bob Willoughby was the first outside photographer hired by Hollywood to document the film sets of some of the industry’s biggest movies. His photographs were published in…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced today the gifts of 473 photographs from three separate collectors, adding significant new depth to the museum's holdings in 20th-century American…
Traditionally, blues music is photographed in black-and-white. But the photographs of Magdalena Solé aren’t directly interested in the artists and fans of the musical genre. They let themselves be carried…
It’s not uncommon to find oneself strangely fascinated by the marks and blisters left by sunburns. The photographs of the American Chris McCaw are like these small wounds we compulsively…
The early 20th century witnessed the epilogue of one of the greatest genocides in human history. In the first decade, the so-called American Indians were dying in the reserves…
Leon Levinstein is best known for his photographic investigations of different New York neighborhoods: Times Square, the Lower East Side, and Coney Island in particular. An exhibition at the Steven…
Despite his many famous portraits, the death on november 8th of British photographer Cornel Lucas at the age of 92 received little attention. In the 1950s and 60s, he welcomed…
Seen from above, the world’s deserts offer astonishing compositions. The American photojournalist George Steinmetz, a regular contributor to National Geographic and GEO, has hovered over them since the beginning of…
In New York at night, we find ourselves immersed in the wildest years of the American metropolis. The evenings were extravagant and glamorous. Adrenaline was a religion and promiscuity a…