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<p>“[James Van Der Zee] is a central figure, a significant artist, in telling the story of people of African descent,” said Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum. “The photographs are testaments to beauty and power, and he captured the Harlem community and the African American community in all its possibilities.”</p>

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem announced that they would share ownership of the archive of James Van Der Zee, a virtuoso photographer who was

With the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Met will acquire and conserve thousands of photographs by James Van Der Zee, the virtuoso portraitist who brought to life the optimism of the Harlem Renaissance.

Lucy Sante analyzes works from Annie Leibovitz, Harry Gruyaert, Gilles Peress, Catherine Opie and other masters of the form.

In commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Photographer Rodney Smith’s passing, the artist’s estate announces the accession of ten of Smit

Sandler (The Dust Bowl Through the Lens, rev. 1/10; Imprisoned, rev. 7/13) shows how a band of intrepid photographers set out to picture America during the Great Depression and ended up establishing documentary photography as “a major creative field of art.”

In 2018, photographer, filmmaker, and educator RaMell Ross released the documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening to critical acclaim, i...

There are two complementary new photography exhibits at The Met that are worth checking out.

This weekend in the arts: "Masters of Photography" at SDMA, Mara de Luca and Lee Materazzi at Quint, Project [BLANK], "Shubbak," "1222 Oceanfront: A Black Family Christmas," and "Ebenezer Scrooge's Big San Diego Christmas Show."

The Americans comprises eighty-three photographs, plucked out from over a thousand shots taken by one Swiss-born artist. Robert Frank’s pictures of America were once branded “anti-photography” for their technical freedom and emotional valence; with his 35mm Leica in hand, he cut beneath the veneer of the 1950s American Dream to reveal the heart of a nation as something pulsating, vulnerable, and exposed.