Photography

Alvin Langdon Coburn, a master of Pictorialist and modernist photography, has been less widely known than he deserves, but a comprehensive traveling retrospective aims to change that.

The allure and challenges of rendering the night in paintings, prints, and photographs are spotlighted in an innovative survey of the American nocturne.

Sebastião Salgado’s visually stunning photographs accord equal respect to suffering humanity and primal nature.

A new exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art searches for the surrealistic touches in photography of the 1920s through ’40s.

With a historic acquisition The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston stages its first Pictorialist photography show in decades.

Pigeonholed as a mere urban preservationist or a naïve proto-Surrealist, Eugène Atget imbued his photographic “documents” with a distinct style and a melancholy vision. By Dan Hofstadter This article originally appeared in the Summer issue of Art & Antiques Magazine as “The Poet of Paris.” Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) About 20 years ago, in…

A new exhibition of Herb Ritts’ iconic commercial work proves that fashion photography isn’t just posing as fine art.

Vernacular photography, a growing, collector-driven field, finds mystery and masterpieces in the lenswork of unknown amateurs.