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Finding a larger-than-life statue in St. Petersburg.
Google’s Reimagine tool makes manipulation so easy that reality itself is at stake.
Fotografiska as a puzzle piece in the ongoing transformation of Berlin.
Spotting AI aesthetics in real life.
Embracing constraints is a good thing.
Telltale signs that an image is generated.
From Samsung’s fake moons to a bigger question: What is real photography?
Luigi Ghirri on color.
Can a record ever be whole?
Sharing mediates our own recollections.
Instagram is emblematic of the broader problems with social networks
Berlin’s history is thick.
Communicating with facial hair.
The human urge to add things, and never to subtract.
It’s hard to comprehend the images coming out of Kyiv.
A camera and a philosophical quest.
The photography manages to surprise every time.
A style, transplanted.
Photos do the opposite of recording something forever.
Sergio Purtell’s “Love’s Labour”
Shooting in the arctic and assessing the risks.
The case for Walker Evans being a time traveler.
Tarkovsky’s encounter with the photo skeptics.
Disappearing memories, rendered in silver.
When photography was invented by a few people at the same time.
Personal interpretation, pictured.
Framing means leaving out a lot of reality.
Older films used more silver in emulsion, giving images a luminous depth later films lost
Truth, but not in certainty
How to make art with a prescribed vision.
Apple's wide-angle iPhone bet will likely reshape photographic aesthetics for a while
Did a Polish photographer get carried away trying to capture every household in the country?
When things get easier, they also get harder.
I traveled to Stockholm to ask photographer Anders Petersen how he takes his photos—and got a some very different answers than I expected.
People are drawn to their vocations by nature, not chance
In the 1950s, early color photography was widely scorned. Now it’s the default. What happened?
Photography as an act of organizing the rectangle.
Mexico's colors translate beautifully into black and white photography
More precious because it can't be replicated.
Searching for the grave of Tina Modotti in Mexico City.
Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.
Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.
Why a Chilean photographer quit fame in pursuit of mysticism and solitude.
We like to say that the camera doesn’t lie. But the reality it captures isn’t quite true either.
The poetic image emerges from mental craft, resisting any mechanical or formulaic process
Photography of the presidency shows that Trump cares about optics, not visuals.
Poetry meet imagery.
Reconsidering Walter Benjamin.
Tina Modotti's portrait is all the more powerful because we'll know what will happen to her.
Stepping away from familiar places.
Doing the impossible.
How August Sander’s uncanny images foreshadow the ending of time.
The genius of Spectacles — and of simple complexity.
What the Decisive Moment means for originality.
Memorable sentences from Henri Cartier-Bresson, quotation machine.
An ode to the Flickr Commons.
Cyanotype's Prussian Blue mirrors Berlin itself.
The unease is creeping in.
Why looking at the past in color is such an uncanny experience.
Chasing bees and photos across the web.
Possiblity.
Vertical is winning.
Stephen Shore's mental model.
Are we just promoting a narrative here?
And choice may be an illusion.
Life is footage.
Photography creates memories that belong simultaneously to shared experience and private feeling
Cultural anxieties, speed up.
Making some photos ephemeral raises the value of the ones we choose to keep
Connectivty over craftsmanship.
Instagram replaces photography’s decisive moment with constant, immediate sharing.
Ideas
Beyond the decisive moment
31 July 2026
Photographs
13 February 2024