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What I Learned From Photographing Great Writers

What I Learned From Photographing Great Writers

Beowulf Sheehan on His Life in Pictures

By Beowulf Sheehan | October 9, 2018

Life, Death, and Art: On the Photography of Reva Brooks

Life, Death, and Art: On the Photography of Reva Brooks

“The minute I got the camera around my neck it was part of my body.”

By Merilyn Simonds | October 5, 2018

How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

Along with the Emerging Art Critic Clement Greenberg

By Mary Gabriel | October 2, 2018

Protest Art and the Fight for Standing Rock

Protest Art and the Fight for Standing Rock

"Bursheim Had Sewn a Subtle but Still Quite Visible 'NOKXL' on the Back of the Quilt"

By Kara Thompson | September 20, 2018

Building a Personality From 100-Year-Old Photographs

Building a Personality From 100-Year-Old Photographs

Nuala O'Connor on the Legend of Belle Bilton

By Nuala O'Connor | August 31, 2018

When Art Imitates Art: Portraits of Literary Characters by Famous Artists

When Art Imitates Art: Portraits of Literary Characters by Famous Artists

From Picasso's Don Quixote to Lichtenstein's Tintin

By Emily Temple | August 29, 2018

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The Self-Portrait Jorge Luis Borges Drew After Going Blind

By Emily Temple | August 24, 2018

James Baldwin’s Children’s Book Will Help You See the World with Fresh Eyes

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The Art of the Late Bloomer

By Corinne Purtill | August 22, 2018

A 14-Year-Old Girl, A Genderqueer Performance Artist, and One of New York's Most Unlikely Friendships

A 14-Year-Old Girl, A Genderqueer Performance Artist, and One of New York's Most Unlikely Friendships

Fernanda Eberstadt Remembers the Late Stephen Varble

By Fernanda Eberstadt | August 20, 2018

From Chester Himes to Judy Blume, 10 Writers and Their Cats

From Chester Himes to Judy Blume, 10 Writers and Their Cats

In Which Marlon James is Photobombed by Tom the Cat

By Alison Nastasi | August 20, 2018

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

Because Good Fan Art is Hard to Find

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The Story of a Life in a Single Photograph

The Story of a Life in a Single Photograph

Panashe Chigumadzi on the Woman Who Would Become Her Grandmother

By Panashe Chigumadzi | July 30, 2018

Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

How a Family Remembers Itself in Darker Times

By Bart Van Es | July 26, 2018

Visiting a Secret Museum in the Middle of the Uzbek Desert

Visiting a Secret Museum in the Middle of the Uzbek Desert

Creating a Refuge for Art Targeted by the Soviet Regime

By Audrey Murray | July 24, 2018

Working With a Photographer Taught Me to See Writing Differently

Working With a Photographer Taught Me to See Writing Differently

"I Began to Appreciate Just How Visual the World Out There Was"

By John Lingan | July 20, 2018

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