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War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning.

Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City. Smith, one of the most talented photographers of his generation, had already produced stunning portfolios chronicling subjects like the Battle of Okinawa, the work of a country doctor in rural Colorado, and Albert Schweitzer’s practice in west Africa, and expected the Pittsburgh project would take a few weeks. He ended up spending three years on the project. And rather than producing the agreed upon hundred photos, he delivered more than seventeen thousand negatives. As an artist, Smith had the eye of an Italian Renaissance painter, a sense of chia...

Reviews - January 14, 2021 In 2016, on the occasion of an exhibition of the photographs of Louis Draper at Steven Kasher Gallery, Hyperallergic critic John Yau asked, “Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know about This Great Photographer?” Apparently, they didn’t. Although Draper, who had died in 2002, was a prominent Black photographer and one-time president of the Kamoinge Workshop, there was little evidence that New York’s august Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) had paid much attention. MoMA’s communications director tersely informed Yau that the museum did, indeed, own photographs ...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. The Philadelphia Museum of Art reopened, along with five other institutions in the city, on 8 January, offering another chance to see this broad-ranging display of artworks, posters and archival materials relating to the provision of medical care over the last century (until 4 April). The exhibition looks in particular at care in times of crisis, exploring how ...

  >> Siddhartha Mitter, The New York Times  Published: 03 Jan 2021 11:32 AM BdST Updated: 03 Jan 2021 11:32 AM BdST Shawn Walker was up on 125th Street in Harlem with Louis Draper and Ray Francis, hanging out and taking pictures. It was the summer of 1964, and the friends, in their 20s, were members of a fledgling photography collective called the Kamoinge Workshop. That’s when celebrated photographer Roy DeCarava walked up. The workshop’s mentor at the time, DeCarava was on assignment that day for Newsweek. "); } Harlem had just experienced riots, after the killing of an unarmed Black...