The London-based artist uses intentional camera movement (ICM) to reinterpret London through abstract, duotone and ...
In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...
Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts, vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s more ...
Hazmat suits, gloves, a respirator — Fabiola Menchelli needs all of it to handmake her large format art. For her new certain silence project, the artist from Mexico City worked with toxic color ...
Photography and memory have an interesting, even intertwined relationship. Each is critical to how we view our past, yet an unreliable record of what truly happened. Patricia Voulgaris was inspired by ...
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In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Born to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Aaron ...
Photography’s uncanny ability to represent the world had such a profound impact on society in the early 20th century that its role in non-representative art has been overlooked. “Shape of Light”, Tate ...
Renowned portrait photographer Nigel Parry presents abstract, Rothko-inspired landscape film photography at the City Gallery Credit: "Colonial Lake" by Nigel Parry But he’s showing another side of his ...
The stacks of FedEx boxes and cubes of cracked glass scattered throughout the third floor of the Hirshhorn don't look like priceless works of contemporary sculpture, which is probably why museum ...
There was a time when Carl Chiarenza took pictures of trees, buildings and people. Recognizable subjects. “I never felt quite at home with that,” he says. Even in his early photos, Chiarenza would aim ...