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The Pictures

By Stephen Koch,

As he approached his death in 1987, the photographer Peter Hujar was all but unknown, with a murky reputation and a tiny, if elite, cult following. Slowly circling down what was…

The Mothers

By Kiana Hayeri,

There is no exact translation in Pashto or Dari for “single mother,” yet after four decades of conflict — from the Soviet invasion to the war on terror — millions of women…

Itchy Nose

By Kazuto Tatsuta,

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…

In August, Steve Mumford attended two rallies for Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president of the United States. Mumford went to Portland, Maine, and Fredericksburg, Virginia, to draw the…

A Sigh and a Salute

By Art Spiegelman,

Si Lewen’s ghost is hanging in my studio — or, more accurately, I should say that one of Si Lewen’s “Ghosts” hangs there. The artist painted about two hundred of…

Brighter Than a Billion Sunsets

By Lyle Rexer,

Right now someone is taking a picture of a sunset. It could be on a beach in Barbados or above the Arctic Circle or on a motel balcony in Seattle.…

In Hayange

By Valérie Igounet, Vincent Jarousseau,

In March 2014, Marine Le Pen’s National Front took charge of eleven municipalities, among them Hayange, a city of 16,000 in northeastern France, where the unemployment rate rose to 15…

Packing Heat

By Tomas van Houtryve,

Undeceiving the World

By Stuart Franklin,

Staging — the practice of deliberately arranging a scene — has coexisted with documentary photography from the beginning. When Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre published a seminal tract on a method for fixing…

Escaping Wars and Waves

By Olivier Kugler,

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

By Art Spiegelman,

Art Young would have turned 150 years old this month, and the finest gift we could have given him is Bernie Sanders’s campaign to welcome socialism back into America’s parlor…

Romancing Kano

By Glenna Gordon,

Wild Pigeon

By Carolyn Drake,

Crooked Timber

By Stuart Franklin,

A footnote in John Banville’s Prague Pictures stopped me short. The book, which celebrates the work of the late Czech photographer Josef Sudek, argues that no other son of Prague…

Ferguson

By Philip Montgomery,

This Is My Name

By Zanele Muholi,

Borderlands

By Kirsten Luce,

Postmarked

By Yola Monakhov Stockton,

Waiting State

By Olivier Kugler,

Down to the Felt

By Lauren Grabelle,

Wild Ones

By Charlotte Dumas,

Charlotte Dumas traveled to western Nevada in the winter and spring of 2013 to photograph wild horses in the foothills of Dayton, Stagecoach, and Silver Springs, and others at Northern…

Look at Me

By Edwidge Danticat,

I grew up under the watchful gaze of my dead grandmother lying in her coffin. Her funeral had been meticulously documented and a series of 4? × 6? black-and-white photographs…

Sirocco

By Michael Christopher Brown,

Longer Ways to Go

By John Chiara,

Drawn by the Sun

By Katy Grannan,

Martyrdoms of Light

By Ishmael Randall Weeks,

Passengers

By John Schabel,

The Pictures

At Last

The Mothers

Itchy Nose

Aline & Bob

The Lightness

Campaign Sketches

A Sigh and a Salute

Brighter Than a Billion Sunsets

In Hayange

Packing Heat

Undeceiving the World

Escaping Wars and Waves

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

Romancing Kano

Wild Pigeon

Crooked Timber

Ferguson

This Is My Name

Borderlands

Postmarked

Waiting State

Down to the Felt

Wild Ones

Look at Me

Sirocco

Longer Ways to Go

Drawn by the Sun

Martyrdoms of Light

Passengers

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The Pictures

At Last

The Mothers

Itchy Nose

Aline & Bob

The Lightness

Campaign Sketches

A Sigh and a Salute

Brighter Than a Billion Sunsets

In Hayange

Packing Heat

Undeceiving the World

Escaping Wars and Waves

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

Romancing Kano

Wild Pigeon

Crooked Timber

Ferguson

This Is My Name

Borderlands

Postmarked

Waiting State

Down to the Felt

Wild Ones

Look at Me

Sirocco

Longer Ways to Go

Drawn by the Sun

Martyrdoms of Light

Passengers

May 2018