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The Epiphany in the Ordinary: A Conversation With Teju Cole

The Epiphany in the Ordinary: A Conversation With Teju Cole

Jennifer Acker Talks to Cole About Genre-Bending, How Artists Bear Witness to Tragedy, and More

By Jennifer Acker | November 3, 2025

“How Living Are His Portraits of the Dead.” Toni Morrison on the Photography of James Van Der Zee

“How Living Are His Portraits of the Dead.” Toni Morrison on the Photography of James Van Der Zee

“The narrative quality, the intimacy, the humanity of his photographs are stunning.”

By Toni Morrison | October 17, 2025

What the Picture Knows: Books That Seamlessly Blend Text and Image

What the Picture Knows: Books That Seamlessly Blend Text and Image

Caleb Klaces on the Often-Overlooked Role of Photography in Works of Fiction

By Caleb Klaces | October 16, 2025

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity

By Martha A. Sandweiss | September 29, 2025

A New <em>Autobiography</em>: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover

A New Autobiography: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover

Lana Lin Asks Us to Reconsider Our Expectations of Memoir, Art and the Creative Process

By Lana Lin | September 29, 2025

Sally Mann on the Crushing, Lifelong Reality of Artistic Rejection

Sally Mann on the Crushing, Lifelong Reality of Artistic Rejection

“Just my life’s work there that you’re tossing around like scrap paper.”

By Sally Mann | September 11, 2025

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How Photographer Frank S. Matsura Challenged White America’s Hegemonic View of the West

By Glen Mimura | September 11, 2025

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

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Tobias Wolff on Adrienne Salinger’s Iconic <em>Teenagers in Their Bedrooms</em> Thirty Years Later

Tobias Wolff on Adrienne Salinger’s Iconic Teenagers in Their Bedrooms Thirty Years Later

“The humanity of these young faces implies a depth of feeling and experience that their histories confirm.”

By Literary Hub | August 12, 2025

Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

Anika Burgess on Daguerreotypes, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Darkroom Dangers

By Anika Burgess | July 17, 2025

There's No Place Like Home—Except the Beach: Visual Stories of Montauk, New York

There's No Place Like Home—Except the Beach: Visual Stories of Montauk, New York

Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt: "The beach is the divide between one world, the dry, and another, the wet. It is a mythical place of transformation."

By Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt | May 22, 2025

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

Peter Trachtenberg Holds up the Frame to an Iconic Artist Who Redefined Being an Icon

By Peter Trachtenberg | March 25, 2025

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

"The god of the camera is a colonizer but a cul-de-sac history of exploitation is held in black skin.”

By Brittany Allen | February 19, 2025

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s <em>The Sleepers</em>

The Art of Watching and the Art of Being Watched: On Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

Karla Kelsey Considers Questions of Gender, Agency and Freedom on Both Sides of the Photographer’s Lens

By Karla Kelsey | December 16, 2024

Still Fighting For Liberty and Justice For All: A Visual History of Black America

Still Fighting For Liberty and Justice For All: A Visual History of Black America

LaGarrett King on the Invaluable Contributions of Black Revolutionaries to America’s Founding

By LaGarrett King | November 18, 2024

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