photographs

Memories Lost and Found: On the Photography of Binh Danh

“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion.”

 
By Binh Danh  December 11, 2023
Inspiration

J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

By J. Vanessa Lyon  August 2, 2023
Art

“Paris is Paris. There is But One.” On Van Gogh’s Painterly Relationship to France

By Gloria Fossi  September 22, 2021
Photography

A Rare Look at Obama Before the Presidency

By David Katz  December 1, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

What is Essential? And Who?

By Siri Hustvedt  July 22, 2020
Photography

If You Can’t Go to a Swimming Pool Right Now, Here Are Some Photographs

By Literary Hub  July 26, 2019
Feature

How Do You Photograph the Wind?

By Lit Hub Photography  December 13, 2018
Excerpts

The Story of a Life in a Single Photograph

By Panashe Chigumadzi  July 30, 2018
Excerpts

Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

By Bart Van Es  July 26, 2018
Feature

22 Photos of Famous Authors and Their Moms

By Emily Temple  May 11, 2018
Feature

Vita Sackville-West Wrote a Very, Very Tiny Novel for the Queen’s Dollhouse

By Literary Hub  March 5, 2018
Criticism

Every Publication is a Kind of Death

By Patrick Nathan  February 12, 2018
Excerpts

Orhan Pamuk: Taking Photographs in Istanbul

By Orhan Pamuk  November 14, 2017
Feature

The Untold Story of a Legendary Diane Arbus Photograph

By James Sullivan  July 26, 2016
Features

On Finding a Real Photograph of My Fictional Heroine

By Alison Anderson  June 15, 2016

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