photography
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Nudes of Wall Street
Writing for Broadly, Stassa Edwards has this profile of Nona Faustine, a photographer whose nude self-portraits aim to expose New York’s history of slavery. Faustine’s “White Shoes” is a series is a kind of memorial to that history, an attempt…
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The Rumpus Interview with Phoebe Gloeckner
Artist and author Phoebe Gloeckner talks about her semi-autobiographical novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl, just adapted into a film starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, and what she’s working on now.
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A Memoir in Pictures
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Caroline Calloway’s new memoir is going to be extremely long. The England-based art history student has been writing a memoir through her Instagram account, mashing together photos, captions, conversations, and more. Unlike…
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Beyond Vanilla
Natasha Gornik’s photographs of people involved in New York’s BDSM scene capture the honesty and community that are essential to practicing kink. Check out her work here, and read about it on her blog.
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The Light of Sally Man
The Daily Beast interviews photographer Sally Mann about her new memoir and the overlap between writing and photography: Yes. They’re so fleeting but in both there is that raptus of inspiration. Fleeting and really hard to hold onto, and you…
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The Eye of the Writer
She sent me this photograph and wrote: I run across my own life as a dog runs across a field, zigzag. The search is endless. Then I come to a sudden stop. I stand and listen to the small movements…
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Reception in Red
Why spend another Friday night binge-watching Treehouse Masters when you could be meditating on the passage of time and the lifelong project of self-actualization we humans must all undertake? If you’re in San Francisco tonight, swing by Four Barrel Coffee…
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People Read Everywhere
Photographer Lawrence Schwartzwald finds people reading just about everywhere. He’s been going around New York City, snapping pictures of people reading books in unlikely places. Slate caught up with Scwartzwald, who explains his fascination with people and their books: You…
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Keeping Up with Cortázar
Over at the Times, Hugo Passarello chronicles Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch through a revolving photo essay; in his own way, Passarello bridges the gap between written text and daily living (or at least does his best to keep up with Cortázar).
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Teju Cole: On Photography
Among one of the many new aspects of the New York Times Magazine’s redesign is a cast of four columnists, each featured for one week during the month. Here’s Teju Cole on photography in his first installment.
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Where No Man’s Gone Before
Photographer Lynsey Addario is profiled by the Columbia Journalism Review; the piece highlights her work as a voice for Pakistani refugees, US marines, and Syrian war casualties—all while balancing her life as a mom: The photo of the Syrian teenager with…
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An Iconophobic Literature
While writing and text are often utilized in visual arts, peeking out in pictures or art installations, within the literary world photos and images are not always as welcome. Over at The Millions, Devin Kelly tries to shed light on…