It’s Nice That Monday February 10, 2025
Between 1975 and 1979, genocide in Cambodia claimed a quarter of the country’s population – an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people. Photographer Kannetha Brown’s mother, Sara, just five in 1975, was separated from her mother Simone and taken into the care of another family in the capital of Phnom Penh. Sara and Simone spent years unaware that each other were alive: Simone was sponsored to move to the US, and eventually they were reunited when Sara was 14. Almost 50 years later, Kannetha is exploring her family history, notes It’s Nice That.
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Amy Werbel Monday February 10, 2025
Four photographs by celebrated artist Sally Mann were recently removed from the walls of an exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at the behest of local Republican officials, who claimed
they constituted child pornography. Those photographs -- taken more than 30 years ago -- feature Mann's children posing in the nude on the family's isolated farm in rural Virginia. "For decades, … Read the full Story >>
Rijksmuseum Friday February 7, 2025
With more than 200 works spanning three centuries, the exhibition American Photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (today through June 9) explores the history of photography in the United States, showing how the medium has permeated every aspect American culture, from art and news to advertising and everyday life. The exhibition considers themes such as the American dream, landscapes and portraiture as well as photography’s evolution as an art form, from 19th-century daguerreotypes to the work of Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Irving Penn, and Dawoud Bey.
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HYPERALLERGIC Friday February 7, 2025
Barbara Morris Goodbody, an innovative photographer and beloved figure of the Maine arts community, passed away on January 13 at age 88, notes Hyperallergic. Goodbody experimented with myriad photographic techniques and genres throughout her late-blooming career. A student of comparative religions, Goodbody sought to convey the concept of “Indra’s net” — a Vedic scriptural metaphor for the interpenetration of all things — by abstracting light grids that implied an infinity of connection coursing through the universe.
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