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The term “documentary photography” refers to images made with the aim of reflecting the world, respecting facts and seeking veracity

In a series of groundbreaking exhibitions Hopps brought a new generation of American artists into the museum, writes Jonathan Griffin

Dayanita Singh’s images of the former and Avedon’s professional apprenticeship are reminders that, before they’re anything else, photographs are information.

Walking into The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, now on view at the Menil Collection, we are greeted (and that really is the word) by a larger-than-life assemblage portraying Walter Hopps (1932–2005).

A look at history reveals the power photography has to impact the world we live in by causing social awareness and change.

In these cases, photography is intended to make amends, to denounce certain situations and to elicit a response.From the world to utopia The term documentary photography refers to images made with the aim of reflecting the world, respecting facts and seeking veracity.

Her photographs are their own genre: documentary dreamscape.

A book of the US photographer's aerial images, created during the Covid-19 pandemic, offers an original take on the US’s lived reality

WV. state folklorist Emily Hilliard talks about her new book, 'Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia.'

From "Amélie" to "Zodiac," IndieWire names the 60 feature films with the best cinematography of the 21st century.