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...

Wasn’t surprised that Sherald uses photography as part of her practice. Didn’t realize it was so direct. There was a wonderful @art21org.bsky.social short included in the exhibition at @whitney.org showing some of the process.

When you're trying to explain to your wife why the chores have to wait while you go out and make photographs (via newcriterion.com/dispatch/the...)

A perfect photograph and lesson in how not to meet the moment.

Pandemic Polaroids, Pittsburgh, and the grief, mystery, and memories of passing time. All in one moving essay: www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/polaro...

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

@rebeccabengal.bsky.social with a poetic essay about Sally Mann’s photo book ’At Twelve,’ recently reissued by Aperture aperture.org/editorial/sa...

Photographer Benjamin Swett, who wrote and photgraphed 'The New York City Book of Trees,' talking about his passion for photographing trees this coming Thursday, 3.27. at the New York Botanical Garden www.nybg.org/event/why-ph...

Diane Arbus, born on this day in 1923 - a photographer who showed the intense power and energies that could be unleashed in images made by an artist willing to look and describe the transcendent ineffable mysteries of life and humanity outside the borders of conventional society and norms

I suspect results would hold true for photography and other visual arts. But does that represent meaningful connection to AI poems or images, or does it represent a general lack of literacy, visual or otherwise in the public at large? And what does that mean? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RIP to an NYC Legend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11w...

Moving photo essay: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1. Central Park, Untitled, 1989 from Passing through Eden -Tod Papageorge 2. The Color of Pomegranates, 1969 by Sergei Parajanov (film still) Both images, and the relationship they appear to describe between the printed word (knowledge) & the world as both futile and freeing resonate in our moment