Photography: A Critical Introduction by Liz Wells: The Academic Standard for Photo Theory
Comprehensive guide to Photography: A Critical Introduction by Liz Wells—editions, structure, theory, and why it’s the academic standard for photo…
fine art photography
The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore: A Master Photographer’s Theory Guide
Explore Stephen Shore’s essential photography primer. Learn his framework for understanding images through flatness, frame, time, and focus.
Mirrors and Windows (1978): American Photography’s Identity Crisis
Explore John Szarkowski’s influential Mirrors and Windows 1978 exhibition at MoMA—the framework that defined American photography’s subjective vs objective…
Capture the Magic: Bruce Barnbaum’s Joyful Lens
Capturing Whimsy: Bruce Barnbaum’s Joyful Lenses
Introducing the Visionaries: 50 Young Rising Stars in Photography
These artists, these visionaries, are the embodiment of a new era in photography. They are the voices of the future, armed with cameras as their weapons of choice, and a … Read more
Famous Contemporary Photographers That You Really Have to Know
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954, American) Cindy Sherman is an American photographer known for her self-portraits in which she assumes a variety of personas and explores themes of identity, gender, and … Read more
Featured Artists Vol.2
The following amazing photo series have been selected from over 230 entries received from all around the world, to be included in the “Featured Artists Vol.2” section of Aesthetics of … Read more
Ryan Lafferty
Simulacra and Suburb These photographs are from an ongoing series called “Simulacra and Suburbs.” They are an attempt to recapture and reshape fragments of memory from the geography of my … Read more
Adrien Picquenot
My relation to clay is peculiar. For my whole artistic life it has been present as a centralelement to my production, yet I have only rarely used it as a … Read more
Maryam Shabani
Tame (2018 – present) This collection had already come into existence long before I discovered that I have bipolar disorder. But after this discovery, I was able to empathize with … Read more