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Photographers like Diane Arbus, Robert Frank helped shape New York City. A new gallery steps from historic locations will create “a dynamic space for encountering photography”

Photographs from the lens of artists like Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, and Nan Goldin have helped both document and shape New York City’s history, so it only seems fitting that a new gallery and home for a longstanding New York-based photography organization will open with an exhibition of those images. Aperture, a New York nonprofit known for its magazine, books, galleries, prints, and programs…
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Cinematic black-and-white image wins major photography award – captured on a shepherd's dusty journey toward Turkey's famous Mount Nemrut

A striking black-and-white photograph of a shepherd guiding hundreds of sheep through swirling dust has been honored at the 2026 World Food Photography Awards, sponsored by Tenderstem Bimi Broccolini. Captured by photographer Serkan Dogus, en route back toward the pastures of Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey, the image transforms an everyday farming ritual into a scene that feels almost…
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Meet William Constable: The unsung pioneer of photography who helped pave the way for portraiture

Sometimes, even the most influential photographers get lost to time – and William Constable was certainly one of them. Even though the late artist was, for a time, the go-to photographer for British royalty, and pioneered commercial portraiture, his contributions to our beloved craft have never truly received the widespread recognition they deserve. That was until a few days ago when the…
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Magnetic fields are invisible, but researchers have just built the most detailed photo yet showing nearly four million galaxies

I’ve long been awed by photographs of the night sky, but one of the latest images to stop me in my tracks isn’t a “photograph” at all. A radio telescope in Australia has built the largest magnetic map of the universe yet, a colorful image five times larger than all the previous radio mapping efforts combined. The data comes from Australia’s national space agency CSIRO and the SKA…
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