Portraits
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Cindy Sherman’s Grotesque Digital Creations
In a new series of collages made by hand and with Photoshop, Sherman is as unrecognizable as she’s ever been, but the figures she depicts can’t be easily disentangled from herself.
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A Friendship in Photography
For decades, Brian Graham, a onetime schoolteacher and oil-rig worker from Cape Breton, took portraits of his friend and mentor, Robert Frank.
News Desk
The Trump Mug Shot’s Art-Historical Lineage
Assessing the forty-fifth President’s Georgia photo op in the context of Da Vinci, Warhol, and a rogues’ gallery of accused criminals.
Annals of Appearances
Trump’s Mug Shot Is His True Presidential Portrait
He might be angry in the mug shot; he might even be scared. But he damn sure doesn’t look surprised. Nobody is.
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Photographers and Artists, “Face to Face”
An exhibition at the International Center of Photography spotlights the charmed and charged phenomenon of the artist portrait.
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Richard Avedon’s Naked Murals
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum showcases the terrific physical presence of a trio of the photographer’s large-scale works.
Profiles
How the Artist Kehinde Wiley Went from Picturing Power to Building It
His portrait of Obama sparked a nationwide pilgrimage. Now he’s establishing an arts empire of his own.
Annals of Inquiry
The Secret Art of the Family Photo
They’re the pictures that mean the most to us. What makes them good?
Dept. of Heirlooms
The Rescued Portrait of My Italian Grandmother
How a matriarch’s image was lost and found.
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The Joyous Collaborations of an Indian Kenyan Portrait Photographer
For almost half a century, N. V. Parekh’s studio captured the middle classes from Mombasa and elsewhere as they wanted to be seen.
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Iiu Susiraja’s Self-Portraits Are More Than a Dare
The photographer uses her own body without straightforward interest in either masochism or self-love.
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What Young Ukrainians Have Lost Overnight
Three years ago, Mark Peckmezian made vibrant portraits of youths on the streets of Kyiv and Odesa. “Now there’s nothing in the future,” one says.
Books
How Florine Stettheimer Captured the Luxury and Ecstasy of New York
With her audaciously colorful paintings, she exalted Manhattan’s high life, but kept her irony intact.
The Art World
The Dazzling Portraiture of Holbein
The premier artist in Henry VIII’s court, Hans Holbein the Younger was a hired-gun celebrant. Five centuries on, his paintings stun anew.
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A Married Couple’s Pictures of Longing and Repression
Ken Graves and Eva Lipman’s œuvre fixates upon the American social rites that mediate touch, particularly between men.
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An Undersung Master Portrait Photographer
Judith Joy Ross zeroes in on her subjects’ vulnerability but never exploits it.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
A Partial Portfolio of Literary Luminaries
Any resemblance to actual persons is purely coincidental.
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Gillian Laub Explores Her Family’s Political Dramas
The photographer, who has documented conflicts around the world, describes her new collection as “the most exposing thing” she has ever done.
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What Old Money Looks like in America, and Who Pays for It
Buck Ellison serves bluebloods up for public scrutiny as only one of their own could.
Dept. of Returns
Back to Work in a Post-Vaccine World
People across the city are returning to the places and activities they love.