Essays

28 Notes for Roy DeCarava

22. You employed rubbled lots like ravaged proscenia. It’s Waiting for Godot in Harlem.

Finding Photographs

Finding photographs is a different adventure than taking photographs. Nostalgia and irony are the first obstacles to overcome.

Tabitha Soren: This American Moment

Are these runners paranoid and delusional, or are they visionary?

Ivar Kvaal

Hibernation is a liminal space between life and death, a limbo.

Paula McCartney: A Field Guide to Snow and Ice

Perhaps there is another way of knowing the world other than by our narrow habits of classification.

Beatles’ Haircuts

Ringo’s soul patch was particularly unnerving.

Staring at Chris Marker

Our interior life is scripted by the cumulative whispers of ancient intimacies.

1440 Decisions to Look

The Middle East Mapping Projects of Roberto Lopardo

Michael Ast

Photography straddles the boundary between the real and the metaphoric.