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PHOTO:Andres Serrano-Torture

Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …

PHOTO:The Shape of Things

The exhibition “The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel” presents an engaging survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s multifaceted …

Robert Polidori, Dharavi #1 - Mumbai, 2008, Paul Kasmin Gallery Archive

PHOTO:Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori is one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers of human habitats and environments. His career began in the mid ‘80s …

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Light on Wall), 2012, © Sally Mann, Gagosian Gallery Archive

PHOTO:Sally Man- Remembered Light

Sally Man first received critical attention for her series “At Twelve” (1983–85), which depicted 12-year-old girls on the brink of adolescence. Between …

Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1948-54, Leila Heller Gallery Archive

PHOTO:Seydou Keïta

Considered to be one the important precursors of African photography, Seydou Keita, like many of his contemporaries, nothing particularly predestined him to …

Thomas Ruff, Stereo 1.09 Brasilia IX, 1994, © Thomas Ruff/VG Bild-Kunst/Bonn 2016, http://thomasruff.jp/

PHOTO:Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff has been a leading figure in contemporary photography since the ‘90s when he emerged as part of the Becher School. …

Cindy Bernard, Diane and June, from Your Personal View of (Social) Nudism (Episode 1960), 2015, Gallery Luisotti Archive

PHOTO:In the Cut

The phrase “In the cut” speaks to physical isolation. As an idiom it refers to sites that are removed from dense populations, …

Andreas Gursky, Rhein II, 2016, © Andreas Gursky, VG Bild-Kunst-Bonn 2016, Courtesy Sprüth Magers

PHOTO:Andreas Gursky-Not Abstract

Andreas Gursky studied at the local Kunstakademie with Bernd Becher in the ‘80s. Alongside Thomas Struth, Jörg Sasse, Candida Höfer, and Thomas …

Christian Marclay, Memento (Survival of the Fittest), 2008, © Christian Marclay, Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery-New York

PHOTO:The Memory of the Future

The exhibition “The Memory of the Future”, at the Musée de l’Elysée, opens up a dialogue between the work of the pioneers …

Cig Harvey, Deep Bay - Self Portrait -North Shore/Bermuda, 2005, Robert Mann Gallery Archive

PHOTO:Back at the Water’s Edge

Summer is synonymous with water, the water’s edge is a familiar backdrop to all of our favorite summer memories. Robert Mann Gallery …

The Family Acid, Mary - Queen of the Cactus, April 1986, Benrubi Gallery Archive

PHOTO:The Family Acid

The Family Acid collective is responsible for some of the most visually intriguing and detailed documentation of the counter cultural movement of …

Nobuyoshi Araki

PHOTO:Nobuyoshi Araki

In Nobuyoshi Araki’s images, Kaori appears in a variety of poses. Effortlessly, she displays an astonishing range of emotions – brashly self-confident …

Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Broken Street Line, 2008, © Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Courtesy of the artists, RaebernonStenglin-Zurich. Peter Lav-Copenhagen and Detroit Institute of Arts

PHOTO:The Open Road

The first successful road trip in U.S.A. by automobile took place in 1903 by H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker. The …