Red carpet photographs are able to convey indelible moments of celebrity magnetism and spectacular glamour. But no step-and-repeat can bottle the crackling anticipation, the eruption of victory, the sting of loss or the quiet exchange between individuals amid a sea of superstars like these candid shots from the audience at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. Inside […]
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The Price of a Very Royal Scandal
March 5, 2024, 1:29 p.m. ET March 5, 2024, 1:29 p.m. ET “I was a little disappointed that Katie Porter chose to run,” Karl Rubin, an emeritus professor of math, told me on the patio of a community center on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, on Monday morning. He said that Porter, […]
Read MoreAltered Princess Kate Photo Creates PR Problem for Royal Family
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a digitally altered picture of an absent British princess is apparently worth a million. That seemed to be the lesson after another day of internet-breaking rumors and conspiracy theories swirling around Catherine, Princess of Wales, who apologized on Monday for having doctored a photograph of herself […]
Read MorePrincess Kate Apologizes For Editing Photo
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated. The decision to recall the photo reignited a storm of speculation about Catherine, who has not been seen in public […]
Read MoreLucas Samaras, Artist Who Was His Own Canvas, Dies at 87
Lucas Samaras, who sang the song of self louder and in more keys than perhaps any other postwar visual artist, creating a wildly diverse body of work in which his own lithe body, bearded face and personal effects took center stage in countless shape-shifting guises, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was […]
Read MoreThe Jamaica That Tourists Don’t See, in Photos
There are different ways of seeing. A place seen through the eyes of a tourist, for instance, is radically different to what is seen through the eyes of a local. While the tourist glances hungrily in search of novelty, entertainment and two-for-one mojito deals, the local sees the daily rhythms, consistencies, characters and carry-ons that […]
Read MoreBraving the Winter to Visit a Valley Shrouded in Snow and Secrets
As the chopper rose into the sky, my heart raced with excitement and a twinge of fear: This was my first helicopter ride. The man beside me glanced over and asked why I’d choose to visit the Gurez Valley now, when it had so little to offer. “Even the locals avoid it if they can,” […]
Read MoreInside the Last Days of the Local Paper
Last August, police in Kansas executed questionable search warrants on the offices of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper that has been publishing since 1869, along with the homes of the publisher and a local city councilwoman. At issue was how the paper obtained a local businesswoman’s driving record, which revealed the woman had […]
Read MoreChuck Close’s Final Works to Go on Display at Pace Gallery
Ever since Chuck Close was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, the painter — who died four years later — has largely been sidelined by the art world, with his work rarely appearing in solo museum and gallery shows. But his longtime gallerist, Arne Glimcher, has always stood by Close, and now he has organized […]
Read MoreAt the Border, a Blending of Politics and Religion
Last Saturday, a crowd of several hundred people gathered in a grassy field near the bank of the Rio Grande in Quemado, Texas, for a rally in support of the state’s defiant stance on immigration. The event, which was held by the protest group Take Our Border Back, marked the final stop of a dayslong […]
Read MoreDipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs
Some hot springs look like palaces, others like holes in the ground. Some feel like parties, others like prayers. There are hot baths within cities, on remote islands, in the desert, inside thick forests. Thermal water can be green, orange, blue, yellow or turquoise. It can be milky and opaque, silty with sediment or as […]
Read MoreReview: Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Show ‘Giants’ in Brooklyn
Right in the middle of the exhibition “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys,” which opens Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum, is Kehinde Wiley’s 25-foot-long 2008 painting “Femme Piquée par un Serpent.” Showing a Black man in snappy but casual dress reclined in a distinctively twisted position, with a background […]
Read MoreTouring Ghana’s Growing Arts Scene
In late 2022, I was invited to go to Ghana with a friend researching work by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who first made a splash at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. We were going to Ghana to learn about the context of his work and also to understand the emerging contemporary art scene […]
Read MoreThe Apple Vision Pro Is a Marvel. But Who Will Buy It?
Last week, I was ushered by an Apple employee through a security gate, past a manicured lawn, down a flight of stairs and into a tastefully decorated faux living room inside the Steve Jobs Theater to get a preview of the company’s new Vision Pro headset. Like other reporters who were given early tours of […]
Read MoreWhere Southerners Go to Fill the Tank and Feed the Family
New York City has its bodegas. The South has its gas stations. When you stop for motor oil in Mississippi, you can also grab fried chicken on a stick. In North Carolina, you can buy a steamy bowl of pozole along with a batteries and a five-pound bag of White Lily flour. There might be […]
Read MorePhotographing the Last of the Holocaust Survivors
Rabbi Aliza Erber, 80, stood at the edge of a pier in Lower Manhattan and told those around her to draw closer — and to look out toward the Brooklyn Bridge. A few seconds later, there it was: a portrait of her face projected onto the bridge, against the backdrop of the Brooklyn skyline, along […]
Read MoreGottfried’s Street Photography Captured N.Y.C. in the ’80s. Now It Seeks a Home.
A nondescript locker in a Lower Manhattan storage center is a portal to a New York City still plagued by crack, AIDS and rampant crime. A drug user squats for a fix in a squalid Manhattan heroin den. A man wearing a Savage Riders biker gang jacket holds a yawning baby. A child straddles a […]
Read MoreArt But Make It Sports Brings History to a New Audience
LJ Rader tries to be online as much as possible during big sporting events, but he missed the first half of last Sunday’s N.F.L. playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs because of a dinner engagement. After he left the restaurant, Mr. Rader checked his phone and saw an unusual request: […]
Read MoreOne Hope From Changes at This Holocaust Museum: Fewer Nazi Selfies
Students on school trips to a Holocaust museum outside Detroit would stand riveted at one stark display: a Nazi officer’s black uniform with a red swastika armband, guns and a whip. Some couldn’t resist snapping selfies. Now, however, the exhibit, at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., has been redone as part of […]
Read MoreArtist Cindy Sherman Emerges With Electrifying New Work at Hauser & Wirth
The facial features in Cindy Sherman’s hyperenergetic new photo-portraits slide around crazily. Eyes spin out in different directions, competing clamorously for attention. Noses and mouths engage in pitched conflict. The electrifying images, now on view at Hauser and Wirth’s SoHo gallery, are primarily black and white, but there are patches of vivid color. Butting one […]
Read MoreThe Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports
Maybe it was the wordless image of the United States Olympic hockey team celebrating the “Miracle on Ice.” Perhaps it was the perfect frame of Dwight Clark making “The Catch” to send the San Francisco 49ers to the 1982 Super Bowl. Or it could have been the declaration that a 17-year-old LeBron James was “The […]
Read MoreEven Rats Are Taking Selfies Now (and Enjoying It)
When Augustin Lignier, a professional photographer in Paris, was in graduate school, he began to ponder the point of picture-taking in the modern world: Why did so many of us feel compelled to photograph our lives and share those images online? It was not a novel question, but it led Mr. Lignier to a surprising […]
Read MoreRunner in Iconic Boston Marathon Bombing Photo Dies at 89
Bill Iffrig, who became a nationwide symbol of resilience for appearing in a photo that captured his fall near the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013 after the first of two bombs exploded and who soon got up and completed the race, died on Jan 8. He was 89. Mr. Iffrig died at a memory […]
Read MoreRuth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars, Captured by Camera
Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll look at an exhibition of photographs of the collars that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wore. We’ll also look at a Manhattan Democrat whose City Hall hopes were dashed in 2021 but who is now looking into challenging Mayor Eric Adams in 2025. In the soft stillness of a museum gallery, […]
Read MoreRed Carpet Photos From the 2024 Golden Globes
Celebrities streamed onto the lush red carpet to pose in front of the floral backdrop for the Golden Globes on Sunday night as the awards ceremony made a return to television (it wasn’t broadcast in 2022, and was moved to a Tuesday evening last year). With both the Writer’s Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes halting movie […]
Read MoreTales of the Black Underworld Fuel Rap. ValTown Recounts Them.
There are some precedents for Valmond’s coverage. In the 2000s, street magazines like F.E.D.S. and Don Diva emerged to document underworld figures, sometimes in their own words. Some YouTube channels trade in old street-life war stories. And in earlier phases of the internet, message boards and blogs touched on these subjects as well. Though Valmond […]
Read MorePeter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead
Peter Magubane, a Black South African photographer whose images documenting the cruelties and violence of apartheid drew global acclaim but punishment at home, including beatings, imprisonment and 586 consecutive days of solitary confinement, died on Monday. He was 91. His death was confirmed by family members speaking to South African television news broadcasts. No other […]
Read MoreThe World in Stories: 13 Favorite Dispatches From 2023
Bearing witness, at close range and often at great risk, is the essence of a dispatch, and in 2023, our correspondents filed 80 of them from 37 countries, capturing the human experience from almost every angle: the good, the bad and the wrenching. In a year marked by conflicts, dozens of dispatches came directly from […]
Read MorePracticing for a Mars Mission in the Utah Desert
In May 1996, an autonomous resupply vehicle docked with Russia’s ailing Mir space station. It carried the usual items — food, clothes, scientific equipment — along with much more cherished ones. The American astronaut Shannon Lucid received M&Ms. For the two cosmonauts, Yuri Usachev and Yuri Onufriyenko, there were perfume-scented letters offering a welcome respite […]
Read MoreBest Arts Photos of 2023
Deadheads, ballerinas and Mick Jagger: As 2023 winds down, revisit a memorable handful of the thousands of images commissioned by our photo editors that capture the year in culture. Winter “I was not so much interested in the way this mother mimicked the Nativity scene because the parallels were evident. I was looking to capture […]
Read MoreA.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead?
John Szarkowski, the legendary curator at the MoMA, once described photography as “the act of pointing.” And for the nearly 200 years since its inception, photography has consisted of capturing a visual perspective from the physical world using light — first with light-sensitive plates, then film, then digital sensors. When digital cameras became widely available, […]
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