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In "Community Fire," Zhang Xiao photographs the Chinese Spring Festival Shehuo, looking at how a tradition has transformed into an enterprise.

Zhang Xiao looks at rural life during Lunar New Year celebrations in northern China.

History, To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring  Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes.  This book is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes—men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. The conversation will feature four extraordinary scholars; I lisa Barbash, Deborah Willis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. This important conversation will delve into the daguerreotypes that were made by ph...

A little over month ago, I found myself traveling to rural Anhui province. Coal+Ice, the documentary photography exhibition I had produced for Asia Society, had been invited to exhibit at the Yixian International Photography Festival. Logistically, this exhibit proved a daunting feat. Fifteen massive crates of photographs were driven all day from Beijing to Pingshan Village, where the power of ten men would carry each crate 500 meters down a rocky hill to the exhibition space, an ancestral hall...

Celebrate Womens History Month with the best movies directed by women from the past 20 years: The films that entertained, transported us, and broke new ground.

How the camera confronted slavery — and still does By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated December 30, 2020, 2:02 p.m. Email to a Friend Carrie Mae Weems, "While Sitting Upon the Ruins of Your Remains, I Pondered the Course of History" (2016-17), from "To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes" (Aperture/Peabody Museum Press, 2020).Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York The course of history didn’t change in 1839, with the inventi...