About the Exhibition   In celebration of the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), and in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) presents Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World, a major exhibition opening on September 12, 2025. This dynamic show explores Rauschenberg’s innovative integration of […]

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South “Love is the key that takes cultures from oppression to joy. As a political unifier, the contract—love—takes on a liberating force,” artist Sabelo Mlangeni has said. Marking the 40th anniversary of New Photography, this exhibition brings together 13 artists and collectives who explore sites of belonging and forms of interconnectedness. Some of the artists […]

Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, Floor 1, Gallery 199 The Met to Present First Major Exhibition on Man Ray’s Media-Crossing Experimentation and his Radical Reinvention of Art through the Rayograph Featuring 160 rayographs, paintings, objects, prints, drawings, films, and photographs, Man Ray: When Objects Dream will highlight the principal place of the rayograph—a type of cameraless photograph—within […]

About Ricky Powell Ricky Powell (1961–2021) was a legendary New York City photographer whose work captured the energy, grit, and charisma of the city’s streets, music, and pop culture. Known as the “Unofficial Photographer of the New York City Hip-Hop Scene,” Powell documented iconic figures—from Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat to the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC—with an […]

In contrast to the posed fashion images so prevalent in magazines, Pamela Hanson’s photographs convey a personal connection and a real friendship with her models who are engaged in fun, joyful activities. As she began her career in Paris in the 1980’s, Hanson roomed with models and tuned into their thinking, ambitions and lifestyles – […]

Get a sneak peek at the archive of Bill Cunningham, one of the most influential trend-spotters and style authorities of the late 20th century. The New York Historical recently acquired the archive of Bill Cunningham, one of the most influential trend-spotters and style authorities of the late 20th century. The legendary New York Times photojournalist roamed the […]

Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) is a volunteer-run non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the role of women , and those who identify as women, in visual journalism and fostering their professional success. The membership consists of more than 400 seasoned and emerging female photojournalists, photo editors, video journalists, multimedia producers and other […]

“Art and life are intertwined for me and my thoughts have often turned to the notion of beauty as understood in both Western and Japanese contexts. Encounters with Noh masks sparked a deep curiosity in their human expressions, a fascination that intensified with time. The gaze of the masks seemed to penetrate one’s inner being, […]

Galician photographer Xan Padrón (Ourense, Spain, 1969) received his first camera at the hands of the photojournalist Enrique Reza, who awoke in him a passion for the photography of the everyday, just as his father, the journalist Luís Padrón, awoke in him the patience to listen and observe stories. After diverse street photography projects in […]

During his first trip to France in 1978, David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was keen to immerse himself in the Parisian environs where a century earlier poet Arthur Rimbaud had tried to live as a runaway teenager in the hopes of becoming a poet. Rimbaud’s short and peripatetic youth was memorialized in two volumes of poetry that, […]

Casa Susanna brings together photographs and publications created by and for a community of cross-dressers who met regularly in New York City and the Catskill Mountains throughout the 1960s. Two modest resorts run by Susanna Valenti and her wife, Marie Tornell, provided safe spaces for guests to freely cross-dress en femme during an era of strictly defined gender […]

Applications for publishers, programming, and project spaces are now open. ICP’s Photobook Fest welcomes local and international photobook presses and organizations from around the world to showcase the best in photo publishing.   This three-day building-wide celebration of photobooks and visual culture also features photographer book signings, drop-in workshops, and thoughtful conversations around photobook making […]