Picturing Personal History: Sylvia de Swaan’s Return: The Landscape of Memory
A portfolio review of the photographer Sylvia de Swaan’s body of work “Return: the Landscape of Memory.”
Stacy J. Platt
Ask a Photo Editor (or Three): What Do You Want from Photographers?
A Q&A with prominent photo editors
Take yourself back to your earliest memories of wanting to have a life in photography; we can refer to them as your Baby Photographer Days. Did you dream of being assigned exciting stories in far…
Not Standing on Ceremony: the Photographs of Jasmine Clark
To engage with Jasmine Clark’s work is to engage with a complex mixture of issues that serve to both define and divide the United States at
Portfolio review of photographer Jasmine Clark’s “After Eisenhower Series” by Stacy J. Platt
The Art of the Assignment
An unspoken charge given to arts educators is that we inspire in our students an enthusiasm and interest in our craft, provoking and…
Photo educators share the best assignments they were given as students and the best assignments that they have given to students.
The Persistence of Memory
What undergirds the aesthetics of violence? To what do we ascribe the desire to mark, interrupt, violate those whose beauty we find, as Duras does above "too much?" And does the object of violence need beauty for violence to be bestowed upon it? Is violence a state of mind for the bearer of it, or i