Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant — and she won. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

A behind the curtains look at how NY Times photo editors decide what images to publish in an age where the AI generated images are ubiquitous, including images originating with the president. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/i...

Matt Weber is a talented NYC street photographer who recently had a stroke. He's working hard on his recovery but is facing financial challenges since he can't work or access his photos. If you can, consider donating to his GoFundMe gofund.me/2f636d716

Daniel Arnold on his new book, 'You Are What You Do' and his life in photography. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL37...

Informative interview with photographer Christopher Anderson about his recent portraits of Trump's inner circle for Vanity Fair wapo.st/49ixYtq

Bill Callahan is a great musician and songwriter - what a gift to see his music paired with scores of photographs from the brilliant NYC street photographer, Daniel Arnold in Callahan's new video, Lonely City. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H9o...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 25,1953

If the wedding photography doesn't work out...https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/13/g-s1-92391/landmines-hilton-humanitarian

Great discussion around photo sequencing with photographer Reuben Radding and a workshop student of his (and strong photographer!) Marshall Scott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFu...

Critic Parul Sehgal explores the ethical challenges artists and writers face when they use their children as subjects or source material for their art or words. No matter where you land on these knotty issues, I think artists have to ask themselves the questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...

Mann, 74, is now publishing her second memoir, “Art Work: On the Creative Life,” a front-porch chatty reminiscence for artists and writers seeking their footing, by “an old woman,” Mann writes, “close to handing in my dinner pail.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

Katy Grannan talking about a new body of portrait work made in California's Humboldt County, and opening in an exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco this week. vimeo.com/1109521177

Advice to artists: “If I could say one thing, it’s to always have another body of work waiting in the wings that you’re equally excited about,” she says. “It’s so easy to get discouraged when you finish a body of work, you think you’ll never do anything as good. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Something Personal Print Sale open.substack.com/pub/gioncarl...

"I understood from the beginning that a camera doesn’t point, it frames. I also understood the gap between the world of the photograph and the world we experience – the world of the photograph has to make sense on its own, out of context.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/a... (with pictures of Shore by Daniel Arnold)

Suggests something about the possible power of photographs? www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Be the photographer for the U.S. Senate. Applications close in two days! www.usajobs.gov/job/841791600

Sebastian Siadecki breaks down all the components commonly used in contemporary (and a few vintage) photobooks in this great video. Super helpful if you think you might make one someday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhb8...

"In a photograph, a girl rapidly transforming into an adult can pause her own evolution, if only for a frame. Nearly all photos contain this illusory stillness, despite the unrest of the actual. But Woodman denies us this temporary serenity." openspace.sfmoma.org/2012/01/gann...

"Salinger wanted “In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” to be seen in an art context. But she also didn’t want her work, in which she shot teens from the early eighties into the nineties, to be inaccessible to the kind of young people whose lives it portrayed" www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...

A nice long walk (and photo essay) along a planned new train route from Brooklyn to Queens: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

"Along with that inner aficionado, Meyerowitz recognized his larger vocation as an aficionado of public existence, photographing the transient flares of emotion and surreptitious congruences that once defined civic spaces, imbuing them with dynamic unpredictability." granta.com/the-artist-a...

For when you get tired of photography www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

"...yes, he [Robert Frank] was there, and no, they didn’t like it, and yes, he’s going to publish the photo anyway, because exploitation is part of photography’s métier, and if he’s going to indulge in it he might as well make it part of the picture’s point." yalereview.org/article/san-...

Good news for the best free photo editing phone app petapixel.com/2025/06/13/s...

A moving photo essay by poet, writer (and, new to me, photographer) Ocean Vuong about memory, loss, time, and the unexpected gifts and responsibilities life brings us, www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

(The settlement starts) “a new chapter for the daguerreotypes, which are expected to find a new home at the International African American Museum in South Carolina, where Lanier says they could be better contextualized and connected to their roots. hyperallergic.com/1016488/tama...

"I’ve always understood one thing about sports photography: ...You’ve got to get lucky. Lucky was being in the seat that I was in that night. And when you get lucky, you’re not supposed to miss. What happened that night was I got very lucky, and I didn’t miss." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...

A new exhibit at the Met charts American photography’s development from a specialists’ medium to an art form that found a proud, comfortable place in the American home. Read Vince Aletti’s review.

Your looks are laughable Unphotographable Yet you're my favourite work of art

Dave Thomas (R.I.P.) of Pere Ubu with a brilliant short meditation on making a new musical language using the metaphor of a cup. All artists could learn something from this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQs...