Lusha Nelson, “Jean Arthur” (1935), gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches, published in Vanity Fair, August 1935 (courtesy Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, museum purchase) So why don’t many ...
Depression-era photography has become strongly associated with a documentary style, but “Reality Makes Them Dream” shows other facets of life at the time, as in Marion Post Wolcott’s “Center of town, ...
Magazines weren't always glossy. One exhibition now at the Jewish Museum in New York City looks at how photography changed magazines both pre-and postwar America. The exhibition, titled Modern Look: ...
On May 15, 1934, a man named Mr. C.P. MacCarthy of Sheffield sent a letter confirming a meeting where he would “demonstrate under test conditions Fake Psychic Photography.” Decades later, his lantern ...
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Sept. 19-Nov. 25, 1979 and the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 22, 1979-Feb. 4, 1980 ...
Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, a number of photographers across Japan produced a ...