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Wandering Eye: From Ellis Island to Kepler-186f Editorial Staff FREEZE FRAME As recently as the 1960s, photography was so marginal a medium that some wouldn’t even consider it fine art. Today, as this article points out,  photography firmly occupies a position at the center of the art world, with major exhibitions at museums and ample scholarly attention, including in the pages of our magazine. The role photography has played in societal transformation since the middle of the twentieth cen...

Wandering Eye:Ways of Seeing Editorial Staff Untitled (Radio) by Bill Traylor, c. 1940–1942. Opaque watercolor and graphite on printed advertising paperboard, 32 1/2 by 24 1/2 inches.  Smithsonian American Art Museum, purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowmnent; photograph by Gene Young. COLOR THEORY Theory of Colors (1810), and way,  way before Pantone, A. Boogert set out to create a comprehensive manual of colors. His  nine-hundred-page anthology of color sampl...