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Photography holds the world accountable to itself. It is the mirror into which society gazes with admiration and regret, with pain and with joy. Photographers, even in the age of Photoshop, call societies out on their bullshit, and offer a … Continued

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Life doesn’t happen in black and white. Looking at the majority of photographer Garry Winogrand’s portfolio, primarily shot in black and white, it’s easy to stop short of using the imagination to add color to the images. This year’s exhibition … Continued

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Nick Knight photograph of Kate Moss

Great fashion photography has brought us some of the most iconic images we’ve ever seen. The modeling industry wouldn’t be an industry at all if there weren’t amazingly talented photographers to capture those truly memorable fashion moments. Get to know … Continued

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Writers have called fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville haunted, avant-garde, a visionary, and painterly. Tenderness and  darkness saturated her work in the fashion sector at a time when excess and exaggeration had society hypnotized. In an era of seducing the customer, … Continued

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Valentino Haute Couture-Marie Piovesan By Deborah Turbeville For Vogue Italia-March 2012
Black and white photograph of model back stage having shoes put on her feet shot by Lee Friedlander

While the best fashion models become fixtures as timeless as the brands shining the spotlight on them, it is that spotlight that makes us all wonder what’s underneath. Angle is everything. Successful fashion celebrates the mystery beneath the fabric with … Continued

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Diane Arbus loved misfits. In Untitled, the current exhibition of her work at David Zwirner which includes sixty-six images of New York’s finest oddballs, the last years of Arbus’s life lay bare her perspective. Following her suicide, the Museum of … Continued

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photograph of a blonde woman taken by Diane Arbus
nicolas guerin photography

You wouldn’t look at Nicolas Guerin’s photography and think to yourself, “I’ve never seen anything like this.” At least we didn’t. Then again, we look at thousands of images every day in our hunt for the world’s most provocative content, … Continued

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Don Herron was a gift the world at large had yet to unwrap when he died on Christmas Day, 2012. He was a multifaceted man whose many talents made him equally at home in rural historical societies or in the … Continued

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You can have a lot of talents, but it’s normal to specialize in one thing, and that one thing is usually the facet of yourself you’ve polished to a gleam with many years of doing the thing by hand. Bettina … Continued

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Privacy is a provocative topic right now; there are countless conversations to be had. There are opinions on private parts and how to handle them (#freethenipple, please. Also, consent is everything). There are arguments around privacy policies and opting in, … Continued

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Masahisa Fukase photograph