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Paul Kodjo’s edgy photographs of nightlife and youth culture in Ivory Coast resisted cultural norms of the 1970s. They almost disappeared …

When Kodak opened its doors in 1888, photography was a cumbersome chemical process best left to professionals, a reason George Eastman’s slogan caught on: “You press the Button, We do the Rest.” Now that we’ve switched out cameras for phones and outsourced “the Rest”—managing our stories, storing …

2023 marks the return of MoMA’s New Photography series—a biannual presentation of contemporary perspectives on photography—after five years away from …

Is nakedness invisibility’s opposite? Maybe not, but, if it’s unapologetically displayed, it can be a kind of antidote to erasure. Some clichés about the cycle of life are true. When you are raising young children, the days are long and the years are short. And when you’re a woman, you will, at …

For photographer Rose Marie Cromwell, image-making is a ritual, a way to grow closer to her mother and daughter. Becoming a parent brings on a whole …

The artist's visual jokes, out-of-place expressions, and even a cutout of his own face mark his presence in the world—and tell a story about Asian …

Working in his California home 3,000 miles away during Covid, the director struck a sympathetic chord with the venerated photographer. A book and two gallery shows resulted. It was a happy fallout of Covid. During the pandemic shutdown, the filmmaker Joel Coen and his wife, the actress Frances …