LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MoMA Show Does Too MuchThe photographer wants to “stand in the gap between working-class and creative-class people.” But her show’s venue makes that impossible.
Bettina Made New York Feel Like a SecretThe artist toiled in her room at the Chelsea Hotel for decades, making photographs and sculptures she showed to almost no one.
ByTess Edmonson
photography
Will Vogt Sees Rich PeopleThe photographs in These Americans depict the wealthy at leisure with their guard down.
Ricky Powell Was the Eyes of New York CityIn many ways, the late hip-hop photographer and “fourth Beastie Boy” represented a version of the city that has all but faded away.
ByMax Lakin
tributes
Corky Lee ‘Was Chinatown to Me’The photographer, who died on January 27, captured the hard work of Asian American community-building.
Tom Slaughter’s Polaroid PortfolioThe artist known for his Pop-y paintings and prints had a side project: shooting Polaroid photos, constantly, of everything that interested him.
Meet Mindy Tucker, the Eyes of New York Comedy
Photographer Mindy Tucker has been shooting comedians for nearly a decade. In that time, Tucker has captured a massive photographic record […]
