Headshots by celebrity photographer George Hurrell are on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
The Truth-Teller
A current exhibition charts the career of photographer Dorothea Lange, whose work captures the human condition with uncommon candor.
Southern photography at Atlanta’s High Museum
The first major survey of southern photography in more than twenty-five years.
Current and coming: Berenice Abbott in New York
Berenice Abbott’s capture of New York City in transition is the subject of a current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Village People
From a new book, a selection of astonishing and charming photographic portraits of country folk in early twentieth-century Sweden
Current and coming: Women in Focus at the High
Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection spans almost two hundred years of women’s contributions to photography
Current and coming: Changing lenses at the Jewish Museum
The story of the exhibition Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine
New views of Dorothea Lange at MoMA
It’s hard to believe that Dorothea Lange, perhaps the most famous of the photographers who worked for the Depression-era Farm Security Administration, hasn’t had a retrospective in more than fifty years
In Chicago, Photos meet Folk Art
As part of their Photography + series, the Art Institute of Chicago is examining the influence of photography and folk art on American culture in the Depression years by bringing together FSA images and folk artifacts emblematic of those painted for the Index.
Robert Frank, photographer (1924–2019)
With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frank roamed the United States in 1955 and ’56 in a Ford coupe, capturing some 2,800 documentary images on his Leica 35mm camera.