Photography
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These Photos Remind Us Why Conservation Matters
Enjoy the 2020 winners of a natural photography competition. -
The World’s Most Inspirational Iceberg Isn’t What It Seems
The professional photographer who created a popular poster image takes it apart. -
These Nature Photographs Aren’t What They Seem
The visual playfulness of Simen Johan. -
What Wild Animals Do in the Dark of the Night
Capturing wildlife with flash photography at the turn of the century. -
Art Is Long, Science Is Longer
My years surveying trees in the Amazon taught me the forest is unknowable.
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Are Digital Cameras Changing the Nature of Movies?
A landmark use of deep focus in film: The young Charles Foster Kane—in the background, but still in focus—is sent away by his poor parents in Colorado to live with a wealthy banker in New York.Mercury Productions / RKO Radio Pictures This is part one of a three-part series about the movie industry’s switch to […]
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Six Pictures of Paradise
I was puzzled by the artist’s photographs of my home in the Amazon—then I looked again.
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A Grandfather’s Final Gift Recalls a Different Way of Life
One evening four years ago, photographer Andrea Tese received a phone call from a home-care nurse. Could she come to her grandfather’s house to assess the situation? the nurse asked. Her grandfather had been very ill and had stipulated he did not want to die inside a hospital; he wanted to stay at home. But […]
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A Photographer Who Tinkers With Time
A still from Stainless, AlexanderplatzAdam Magyar Adam Magyar’s gone viral. His recent series Stainless, in which video recordings of subway platforms are played out in super-slow-motion, has been rippling across the web. Magyar first films people on the platform from a speedily arriving train and then slows the footage down, highlighting details and expressions that […]
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When Photographers Are Neuroscientists
Artists who manipulate photos capture the ambiguity—and beauty—of vision itself. -
Humanizing Animals With the Most Human Eyes
People place incredible importance on their eyes. They’re arguably our default tool for perceiving the world, and one of the primary ways we remember and describe one another. Your eye color is on your birth certificate, driver’s license, and online dating profile. Those who make eye contact are considered more competent, friendlier, and more professional. Online […]
