photography

Looking out of an adobe window. Salvador, Brazil, 1963.

Arts

A Collection Of 'Window Views' Takes On New Meaning During The Coronavirus Crisis

8:05am May 18, 2020

by Kisha Ravi

Visual artists are focusing anew on windows in this age of social isolation. An online array of photos from the Smithsonian shines new light on windows' cultural, artistic and symbolic meaning.

Ringo Starr and Astrid Kirchherr in an undated photo.

'Her Gift To The Beatles Was Immeasurable': Photographer Astrid Kirchherr Dies At 81

11:09pm May 15, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

"I was just amazed how beautiful these boys looked. And being a photographer then, it was a photographer's dream," Kirchherr told NPR about the first time she saw the Beatles.

Politics & Government

Sen. Burr To Step Down As Intelligence Chairman During Stock Sell-Off Probe

5:55am May 15, 2020

by Tim Mak

Sen. Richard Burr will relinquish his role as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, saying he doesn't want an FBI probe into allegations that he engaged in insider trading to distract the panel.

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The Procession of Steps is a journey that marks the last Friday of Christian Lent. This year, the procession continued without the presence of any followers and with the entire church group wearing masks and gloves. Olinda, Recife.

Arts

Life, Interrupted: Photos Of Brazil Under Lockdown

7:01am May 06, 2020

by Laura Beltrán Villamizar

Brazilian photographers portray a country that's deeply anxious while living through the coronavirus.

The cover of The Human Planet shows the impact of harvesting thick layers of peat, to burn as fuel, in sparsely forested parts of the Netherlands. Because peat takes thousands of years to form, the harvesting leaves behind sunken, water-filled areas cross

A Flying Photographer Looks Down On Earth In Awe And Sorrow

7:05am May 03, 2020

by Pranav Baskar

In his new book, The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene, George Steinmetz offers a bird's eye view of the mark humans have made on the global landscape.

Dorothea Lange, White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco (1933). Sarah Meister, MoMA's photography curator, sees new resonance in Lange's photographs of aid lines like this one, which stood nearby Lange's studio in Northern California.

Books
Arts

'A Community Of Desperation' Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange

4:22pm April 30, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The American photographer intimately documented the upheavals of the Great Depression. Now, amid the upheavals of the coronavirus, Lange's portraits of humanity and adversity still have a lot to say.

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Kasia: Pete had just got his test results: positive for COVID-19. At the clinic, he was given just one mask. He was so scared of infecting me and his parents, that he insisted on wearing it to talk, even though we were separated by a window.

Isolation Diary: Photographers Document Their Experience With COVID-19

7:01am April 17, 2020

by Emily Bogle

When Pete Kiehart was forced into quarantine with COVID-19, he and girlfriend, Kasia Strek, did what came natural to them. The two photographers picked up their cameras and began making images.

Arts

An LA Native Drives Us Through His Hometown — Using Google Street View

7:00am March 29, 2020

by Samantha Clark

Multidisciplinary artist Felix Quintana created honest portraits of South Central Los Angeles' people and urban landscape with the help of archived images.

A delivery worker on a motorcycle on an empty street in Wuhan. Despite the city's lockdown measures to prevent the spread of disease, a handful of delivery companies are still in operation. Their workers provide supplies and necessities to residents coope

PHOTOS: In A Coronavirus Crisis, Delivery Workers Can Be A Lifeline

7:00am March 08, 2020

The city of Wuhan may be in lockdown — but its couriers are still on the move, delivering everything from medical supplies to instant noodles.

Arts

Photographer Documents The Personal Items Confiscated By Border Patrol

4:20pm March 04, 2020

by Mandalit del Barco

After Border Patrol agents confiscated personal items from migrants caught near the Arizona/Mexico border, a photographer working as a janitor would go back and rescue them from the trash.

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