Blues in Black and White
There’s a small but strong subculture of partner dance in New York City, grounded in a love of blues music, the desire to express oneself physically, and the joy of…
how early color photography worked.
a tutorial in Photoshop
Claire Fergusson in her Tribeca Loft
Claire Fergusson is a multi-disciplinary artist that has lived in her Tribeca loft for the past 50 years. Her work is in the MoMa Archive.
Why this chair is on so many album covers
The golden age of album cover design doesn’t have a specific start and end date, but many regard the late 1960s to 1970s as one of the field's most exciting…
How to Develop Black & White Film at Home With Coffee
A step-by-step guide to Caffenol, the genius process substituting chemicals like ammonia and formaldehyde with instant coffee {read}
Midwest Modern’s Architectural Road Trip
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen Lipnik’s photography. With more than fifty thousand followers, his account, Midwest Modern, is a transportive road trip through architecture, design, and, often, time.…
Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions — Art21
How does an artist come to grips with the uncontrollable? Filmed over the course of four years, artist Mariah Roberston experiments with photographic chemistry in her Brooklyn darkroom, leading to…
The South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid
In 1978, Serote and Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele founded the Medu Art Ensemble, an art collective that advocated for an end to the South African apartheid government through creative expression —…
Keeping ‘Insecure’ lit: HBO cinematographer Ava Berkofsky on properly lighting black faces
Any brown person who’s taken a selfie in the club can tell you cameras aren’t made for us. Yet in Insecure’s club scenes, dark-skinned protagonists like Yvonne Orji’s Molly continue…
Women Photographing Women
Feminist critic Laura Mulvey coined the term “male gaze” in 1975 to describe the ways in which women were objectified on camera when a man was behind the lens. In…