ARTnews Wednesday December 24, 2025
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has named the 77 exhibitors that will participate in the upcoming edition of the Photography Show, it annual fair. The 2026 iteration will return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York, running April 22–26, with a focus on increasing its gender parity, notes Art News: a third of the exhibitors are women-led, women-founded, or both. AIPAD also announced it will give artist, scholar, and NYU professor Deborah Willis its 2026 AIPAD Award, to be presented during the VIP opening on April 22. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday December 24, 2025
For more than a few people in the art world, 2025 arrived with a disquieting sense of deja vu. In January we noted that photographs by Sally Mann on view in a group exhibition at the Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth in Texas were targeted by locals and elected officials for containing what they deemed to be inappropriate depictions of children. The images … Read the full Story >>
Poynter. Tuesday December 23, 2025
The claims and counterclaims over the authorship of the famed “Napalm Girl’ photo from the Vietnam War have been catapulted into the public eye late last month after Netflix began streaming The Stringer, a documentary that investigates who took the picture. At Poynter, Bill Mitchell, the former CEO and publisher of the National Catholic Reporter and author of the Substack newsletter How True: Stories & Strategies of Nailing Stuff Down, examines the challenges associated with reporting about long-ago incidents. Read the full Story >>
Aperture Tuesday December 23, 2025
Since his death on December 6, there has been an outpouring of love and sorrow for the photographer Martin Parr, notes Chris Boot, who led Aperture as its executive director from 2011 to 2021. Parr, Boot writes, “took an idea at the heart of photography—the pleasure and point of documentary picture-making—and with his irrepressible appetite for people, a singular clarity of intention, and phenomenal energy, he grew our culture.” He also "fired up the economy of the photobook and grew a broad informal global fellowship,” writes Boot. Read the full Story >>
