Before Mariana Greif Etchebehere photographed a single resident of Complejo Bulevar, a cooperative that houses 332 families in Montevideo, Uruguay, she listened. The Magnum Foundation had invited her to propose a project on the Complejo Bulevar as part of a larger project on dignified living in Latin America. Greif, who is from Uruguay but is now based in Rio de Janeiro, had experience working on collaborative projects, but nothing quite like what Complejo Bulevar turned out to be. She later handed her photographs to residents, who embroidered and drew their own histories onto them.

  While the illustrator Brad Holland may not be a household name, you could say that if anyone represented the power of illustration, over the past half century, to provoke, it would be this artist. Entirely self-taught, he worked his way up from studio rat sweeping floors in a Chicago tattoo parlor to being one of the first in The New York Times’ roster of artists for its new Op Ed page, in 1970. The Watergate scandal offered the kind of material that excited Holland’s co...