Photography
Still images made by materials sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation, generally via a chemical action on the sensitive surface.
Photography
Still images made by materials sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation, generally via a chemical action on the sensitive surface.
Basics to get you started
Early photography: Niépce, Talbot, and Muybridge
Ansel Adams: visualizing a photograph
The Pictures Generation
Surrealist Photography
Staging the Egyptian harem for Western eyes
Lang Jingshan and early Chinese photography
How photographs of poverty in the Americas ignited an international battle over propaganda
New Topographics
An interview with Robert Frank
An interview with Dayanita Singh
An interview with Sunil Gupta
Graciela Iturbide, photographing Mexico
Mickalene Thomas on Seydou Keïta
Photography in 19th-century India
The story of Ernest Cole, a Black photographer in South Africa during apartheid
Peaks and perils: The life of Carleton Watkins
Costumbrismo
An interview with Anselm Kiefer
An interview with Sheba Chhachhi
The YBAs: The London-based Young British Artists
The case for Ai Weiwei
Shirin Neshat, “Dreams Are Where Our Fears Live”
Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’
Omar Victor Diop: Black subjects in the frame
Lorna Simpson – ‘Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire’
Mickalene Thomas on her materials and artistic influences
Naeem Mohaiemen
