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Mariana Cook traveled all over the world—from Johannesburg to Yangon—to capture many of both the well-known and the lesser-known pioneers of the human rights movement. The portraits show the power…

This exhibition at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, on view through March 2014, shows five decades as seen by a German photographer born the year  World War II broke…

The dense and matte aspect of the black, in Allen Frame's photographs—be they in color or black and white—sets the various components of an intrigue unfolding beyond the frame. They…

In 1965 photojournalist Tim Page was with the Australian troops in Vietnam when they landed in Bien Hoa. Like many of those he photographed, Page was barely out of his…

“I believe that I’m not telling a story about a space, but about a feeling, an emotion, and the surrounding four walls are just the surface [...] My work in…

What does it mean to call something “intimate?” Some of Petersen’s photographs could be seen as “stolen,” the result of an intrusion. But they’re nothing of the sort. His approach…

There are few landscape photographs in Petersen’s body of work. His acute, tight, focused approach to a specific object rather than a broader context seems at odds with the requirement…