Weegee: self-promotion is his business
An exhibit at the ICP shows Weegee’s New York was gritty in the most unreal possible way
Beirut Art Center at the New Museum in New York
Lebanese artists address how art is changed or destroyed by its display
Photographer Martin Klimas and the color of sound
Marrying Abstract Expressionism to every heavy metal kid’s discovery that speakers produce air waves
The Cincinnati Daguerreotypes of 1848
Exploring in high detail an America that was newly industrializing and soon to war with itself
Portraits from Lima, Peru, 1916
Tiny pictures from Peru of men in uniform and the women they courted
Robert Clark’s extraordinary photos of Peru
They are beautiful but also temporally confusing in unexpected ways
A German photographer captures cathode-ray decays
I can even feel the static electricity surge when an old TV was turned off
What am I doing on a bench in Italy on Google Street View
I am writing in my journal about the Google car passing in front of me
Twenty weeks of WWII at The Atlantic
All sorts of visual surprises remain of one of the most documented moments in history
How my journey to Beirut ended up on an art gallery wall
I had become a migratory subject for the artist Walead Beshty
You are not alone
Artist Corinne Vionnet captures the banality of seemingly unique travel experiences
Sahrawi refugees photographed by Andrew McConnell
Incredible, luminous figures stand out against landscapes of perpetual night
An evocative group portrait at a cafe in Egypt, 1934
A moment captured during an outing to Roda island in the 1930s
Rare color images of the Great Depression
The Depression in color is caught between deprivation and an idealized small-town American life
How can early-20th century Russia be in color?
The early color photography that changes our view not just of the world but of time
Where the Egypt revolution began
Egypt’s current demonstrations build on years of work by civil society groups
Portrait of Saad Zaghloul, leader of Egypt’s 1919 revolution
The tattered portrait of the man who led the Egyptian revolution of 1919
What the Tunisia revolution looked like
Big, powerful images of the revolution in Tunisia from the Boston Globe’s site ‘The Big Picture’
Debonair portrait: Pontremoli, Italy, 1920
A debonair young man in the 1920s sends his greetings to a lady