Jan 05 Tuesday on the NewsHour: National Geographic Unearths Its Buried Treasure By Arts Desk For every glossy copy of National Geographic magazine you've paged through, there are hundreds of photos that you haven't seen, photographs that didn't make the final cut, but did make it into a massive underground vault. Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch Hidden Lens: Inside National Geographic’s Photo Vault Jeffrey Brown visits National Geographic's vault of more than 11.5 million images spanning more than a century of photography and illustration. Continue watching
Dec 17 Everyone Smile and Say, ‘Democracy!’ The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words may indeed be true, but photographer Joe Sohm has found that it has taken him thousands of pictures to capture just one word: democracy. Continue reading
Dec 16 Two Exhibits Gaze Upon Man Ray’s Afterimage Art history knows him as Man Ray, the witty surrealist artist who helped legitimize photography as a medium of high art. But two recently-opened exhibits are changing his historical "afterimage," so to speak. Continue reading
Dec 02 Photos from the Beijing Underground Capturing the faces of an ever expanding and changing youth movement in China, photographer Matthew Niederhauser's ongoing project, "Sound Kapital," documents the emerging underground punk, indie rock, electronic and folk music scenes of Beijing. Continue reading
Nov 23 Monday on the NewsHour: New Biography Brings Dorothea Lange’s Life Into Focus By Tom LeGro Some photographs, like "Migrant Mother," have become iconic images, part of our shared history. It and many other photos were taken by a woman who is herself the subject of a new biography: "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits."… Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch In Dorothea Lange’s Photos, Wisps of ‘Great Recession’ America's understanding of the Great Depression has, in large part, been shaped by the photography of Dorothea Lange. With the nation once again steeped in financial turmoil, Lange's images have taken on new relevance. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Nov 17 A Photography Debut, 65 Years in the Making By Arts Desk Holding out for the course of a career that spans more than 40 years, photographer Robert Bergman refused to compromise on when and where he would hold his first show; standing by a personal philosophy of "getting it right," he… Continue reading