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At the Hermitage

Finding a larger-than-life statue in St. Petersburg.

5 July 2025
Free-for-All Fakery

Google’s Reimagine tool makes manipulation so easy that reality itself is at stake.

26 August 2024
The Neoliberal Museum

Fotografiska as a puzzle piece in the ongoing transformation of Berlin.

26 September 2023
The Flipside of Fake

Spotting AI aesthetics in real life.

10 July 2023
Fake Can’t be Just As Good

Embracing constraints is a good thing.

10 July 2023
Towards a Classification of Midjourney’s Uncanny Valley

Telltale signs that an image is generated.

4 July 2023
Banal Creations

From Samsung’s fake moons to a bigger question: What is real photography?

13 April 2023
Color

Luigi Ghirri on color.

23 November 2022
Completism

Can a record ever be whole?

14 November 2022
Photographic Memories

Sharing mediates our own recollections.

11 August 2022
Nosedive

Instagram is emblematic of the broader problems with social networks

27 July 2022
Belle Alliance

Berlin’s history is thick.

15 June 2022
Zelensky’s Beard

Communicating with facial hair.

9 April 2022
The Additive Cognitive Bias

The human urge to add things, and never to subtract.

5 April 2022
Stupefyingly Normal

It’s hard to comprehend the images coming out of Kyiv.

26 February 2022
Fragments of Endless Possibilities

A camera and a philosophical quest.

22 January 2022
The Unnerving Ephemerality of Constantine Manos

The photography manages to surprise every time.

20 September 2021 5 years ago
Fred Herzog in Mexico

A style, transplanted.

20 July 2021 5 years ago
Immortality

Photos do the opposite of recording something forever.

19 July 2021 5 years ago
Summer in Black and White

Sergio Purtell’s “Love’s Labour”

23 January 2021 5 years ago
Frozen Film

Shooting in the arctic and assessing the risks.

17 January 2021 5 years ago
Chronocentrism

The case for Walker Evans being a time traveler.

9 January 2021 5 years ago
Why Stop Time?

Tarkovsky’s encounter with the photo skeptics.

25 December 2020 5 years ago
Taking Slides

Disappearing memories, rendered in silver.

30 November 2020 5 years ago
Simultaneity

When photography was invented by a few people at the same time.

30 November 2020 5 years ago
Subjective Photography

Personal interpretation, pictured.

20 October 2020 6 years ago
Deletion of Space

Framing means leaving out a lot of reality.

25 July 2020 6 years ago
25 April 2020 6 years ago
Less Silver

Older films used more silver in emulsion, giving images a luminous depth later films lost

3 January 2020 6 years ago
The Lineaments of Truth

Truth, but not in certainty

18 November 2019 6 years ago
Lithuanian Melancholy

How to make art with a prescribed vision.

21 October 2019 7 years ago
Wide-Eyed

Apple's wide-angle iPhone bet will likely reshape photographic aesthetics for a while

12 September 2019 7 years ago
Rabbit Holes

Did a Polish photographer get carried away trying to capture every household in the country?

6 September 2019 7 years ago
Google Night Sight and the Importance of Photography Limitations

When things get easier, they also get harder.

28 October 2018 8 years ago
“You have to be a little bit stupid.“

I traveled to Stockholm to ask photographer Anders Petersen how he takes his photos—and got a some very different answers than I expected.

19 August 2018 8 years ago
Löwenbändiger

People are drawn to their vocations by nature, not chance

30 May 2018 8 years ago
Controversial Color

In the 1950s, early color photography was widely scorned. Now it’s the default. What happened?

14 May 2018 8 years ago
Putting a Frame Around Things

Photography as an act of organizing the rectangle.

5 May 2018 8 years ago
The Artist in Mexico

Mexico's colors translate beautifully into black and white photography

4 May 2018 8 years ago
Instant

More precious because it can't be replicated.

12 April 2018 8 years ago
11 April 2018 8 years ago
Full Circle

Searching for the grave of Tina Modotti in Mexico City.

5 April 2018 8 years ago
The Woman Who Was Robert Capa

Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.

5 January 2018 8 years ago
Historical Distance

Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.

22 November 2017 8 years ago
Introspection

Why a Chilean photographer quit fame in pursuit of mysticism and solitude.

20 August 2017 9 years ago
Hyperreality

We like to say that the camera doesn’t lie. But the reality it captures isn’t quite true either.

22 June 2017 9 years ago
The Poetic Image

The poetic image emerges from mental craft, resisting any mechanical or formulaic process

12 June 2017 9 years ago
Donald Trump’s Horror Picture Show

Photography of the presidency shows that Trump cares about optics, not visuals.

22 May 2017 9 years ago
El Umbral

Poetry meet imagery.

11 May 2017 9 years ago
Aura

Reconsidering Walter Benjamin.

19 April 2017 9 years ago
Anterior Future

Tina Modotti's portrait is all the more powerful because we'll know what will happen to her.

6 March 2017 9 years ago
Lost and Found

Stepping away from familiar places.

15 January 2017 9 years ago
Nothing

Doing the impossible.

5 January 2017 9 years ago
An Inkling

How August Sander’s uncanny images foreshadow the ending of time.

27 December 2016 9 years ago
The Joy of a Round Photograph

The genius of Spectacles — and of simple complexity.

18 November 2016 9 years ago
The Fourth Dimension

What the Decisive Moment means for originality.

8 October 2016 10 years ago
Obsessed with Visual Pleasure

Memorable sentences from Henri Cartier-Bresson, quotation machine.

22 September 2016 10 years ago
No Known Copyright Restrictions

An ode to the Flickr Commons.

4 September 2016 10 years ago
Berlin Blue

Cyanotype's Prussian Blue mirrors Berlin itself.

19 August 2016 10 years ago
Camera Backlash

The unease is creeping in.

9 July 2016 10 years ago
The Banality of Color

Why looking at the past in color is such an uncanny experience.

9 May 2016 10 years ago
The Trouble with Image Rights

Chasing bees and photos across the web.

22 April 2016 10 years ago
Unexposed Film

Possiblity.

16 March 2016 10 years ago
12 February 2016 10 years ago
The Triumph of the Portrait Format

Vertical is winning.

27 November 2015 10 years ago
Feedback Loop

Stephen Shore's mental model.

2 June 2015 11 years ago
The Cult of Ruin

Are we just promoting a narrative here?

21 January 2015 11 years ago
Your Taste Has Been Designed

And choice may be an illusion.

13 December 2014 11 years ago
Here’s to Being Here

Life is footage.

1 October 2014 12 years ago
Partly Shared, Partly Private

Photography creates memories that belong simultaneously to shared experience and private feeling

24 September 2014 12 years ago
Compressed time

Cultural anxieties, speed up.

5 September 2014 12 years ago
Ephemerality

Making some photos ephemeral raises the value of the ones we choose to keep

17 January 2014 12 years ago
Networked Lenses

Connectivty over craftsmanship.

13 January 2014 12 years ago
A sense of immediacy

Instagram replaces photography’s decisive moment with constant, immediate sharing.

9 August 2013 13 years ago

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