Feb 02 Portraits of the Face of War By Tom LeGro In her surprisingly tender portraits of former soldiers and marines, photographer Nina Berman documents the lives of veterans who have made an extraordinary sacrifice for their country, and who now must make a new start in the face of serious… Continue reading
Jan 12 Andrew Moore: 'Detroit Disassembled' An exhibition of photographs by Andrew Moore is on display at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York that captures the lost world of Detroit -- abandoned auto plants taken over by plants, burned out high schools frozen in time. Continue reading
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