Andy Grundberg was the photography critic of the New York Times from 1981 to 1991. He later served as the director of the Ansel Adams Center for Photography in San Francisco and as chair of the ...

Robert Frank, "New York City, 7 Bleecker Street" (1993), gelatin silver print, 15 15/16 x 19 13/16 inches (∼40.48 x 50.32 cm); Museum of Modern Art (all images courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York) ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

During the colonial period, the camera became something of an imperial device, as Western images defined narratives about the history, culture, and identity of the African continent. Now, in its first ...

A group of experts met to discuss the images that have best captured — and changed — the world since 1955. Credit... Supported by By M.H. MillerBrendan EmbserEmmanuel Iduma and Lucy McKeon Let’s get ...

After decades of “staying within the lines” of what was considered traditional Native art, Indigenous artists are increasingly moving into the contemporary art space. Whether creating fine-art ...

The Photography area is a creative and innovative environment, inspiring students to become technically and conceptually proficient, visually literate and culturally engaged artists. The program ...

Professor Jason Hill specializes in the histories of modern and contemporary art, photography, and media, focusing on American art's longstanding and always dynamic relationship with the cultures of ...

Photography and the American West have a lot in common. Both were “discovered” by Europeans in recent centuries, despite the fact that neither was exactly new. The camera obscura existed in the ...

Installation view of “Four Talks” at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2021. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Ron Blunt. The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn ...

One of the more hidebound notions about American art is that modern art photography was strictly an East Coast phenomenon, and that Los Angeles represented a cultural backwater. Last fall’s ...

From a Brussels private collection, we present an ensemble of fine art, spanning almost the entire 20th Century, ranging from a Jef Lambeaux Selfportrait over a series of drawings by Armand Simon, ...