The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era
Katy Waldman writes about Kent Nishimura’s photographs, which capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on.
Photo Booth
admin A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids
In a Photo Booth, Michael Schulman writes about the photography of Emily Shur, who shot pictures for magazines in the…
Ryan McGinley Tries to Photograph What It Means to Be Alive
In “Night Shift,” McGinley’s first New York show in eight years, the photographer brings his travelling bacchanal home to the…
Gay Pride and Stonewall, Through the Eyes of Fred W. McDarrah
Hilton Als writes about the photography of Fred W. McDarrah, the Village Voice’s first staff photographer, who documented the gay-pride…
A Sprawling Monument to How Things Get Made
Eren Orbey on the British photographer Mark Power’s book “Fashion,” which lavishes formal attention on industrial machinery and, by extension,…
The Long Road to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain
Rebecca Mead on Paul Graham’s photo book “A1: The Great North Road,” which documents life along a major British thoroughfare…
How City Kids Used to Play on the Streets of New York
Naaman Zhou writes about a retrospective of Martha Cooper’s work, reflecting a bygone era of growing up.
The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa
Hilton Als on the Japanese photographer Mao Ishikawa’s works, upon a show of her work, “Rogue,” at Alison Bradley Projects.
How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
The photographer, who died last month, at the age of eighty-three, spent his life chronicling the highs and lows of…
Biking Outside the Lines in New York City
Diego Lasarte on Brian Finke’s photography book “Bike Life,” documenting riders breaking through the constraints of the city’s crowded landscape.