Art Photography
Before There Was Photoshop, These Photographers Knew How to Manipulate an Image
Jerry Uelsmann and other artists manually blended negatives to produce dreamlike sequences
May 2013 |
By Paul Bisceglio
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Man Behind the Masks
The "dedicated amateur" photographer had a strange way of getting his subjects to reveal themselves
November 2011 |
By David Zax
Fay Ray: The Supermodel Dog
As photographer William Wegman tells it, his cinnamon-gray Weimaraner wasn't content to just sit and stay
September 2011 |
By David Schonauer
An Unforgettable Photo of Martha Graham
Barbara Morgan's portrait of the iconic dancer helped move modern dance to center stage
June 2011 |
By Joan Acocella
Man Ray’s Signature Work
Artist Man Ray mischievously scribbled his name in a famous photograph, but it took decades for the gesture to be discovered
November 10, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Eudora Welty as Photographer
Photographs by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Eudora Welty display the empathy that would later infuse her fiction
April 2009 |
By T.A. Frail
Cindy Sherman: Monument Valley Girl
The artist's self portrait plays with our notions of an archetypal West
March 2009 |
By Victoria Olsen
Family of Man's Special Delivery
It took three generations to produce Wayne F. Miller's photograph of his newborn son
February 2009 |
By Owen Edwards
Richard Misrach's Ominous Beach Photographs
A new exhibition of oversized photographs by Richard Misrach invites viewers to have fun in the sun. Or does it?
August 2008 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Gaga Over a Gargoyle
From Margaret Bourke-White to Annie Leibovitz, photographers have scaled dizzying heights to frame the perfect prop
February 2008 |
By David J. Marcou
They Needed to Talk
And family friend William Eggleston, his camera at his side, felt compelled to shoot
May 2007 |
By Emily Yellin
Animal Magnetism
Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the United States, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures
June 2005 |
By Cathleen McGuigan
Hungarian Rhapsody
In a 70-year career that began in Budapest, André Kertész pioneered modern photography, as a new exhibition makes clear
March 2005 |
By Terence Monmaney
Focus on the Blues
Richard Waterman's never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best
September 2003 |
By David Friend
Nothing but the Struth
A new exhibition showcases the German photographer's eye for art
June 2003 |
By Terence Monmaney
Manhattan Bound
A new book of photographs by octogenarian Helen Levitt charts her amused view of an ever-evolving New York
April 2003 |
By Molly Roberts
Unfazed by All the Buzz
The portrait that took the photographic world by swarm
November 2002 |
By Elizabeth Royte
Stieglitz in Focus
A new exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art tracks the development of seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz
June 2002 |
By Doug Stewart
