All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras

A few years ago, I wrote about Nan Goldin. When I wrote that piece, I knew about Goldin’s struggles with … More

New York in the Pandemic Years: 2020-2022(?)

I studied photography in college. I loved the process: going out to shoot, developing the film in my kitchen, quiet … More

Somewhere in my things, I think I still have a sheet from of paper that I took from a Felix … More

This piece first appeared in the JHI Blog’s June Reading Recommendations roundup. The first part of the text is more … More

2020, overall, was not conducive to serious reading. I spent much of it glued to my glowing screen, staring gape-eyed … More

It’s been a long hot summer here in New York, and we are only halfway through the season. Paul Fusco … More

For a long time, I struggled with Irving Penn’s portraiture. They seemed to me as remote from my world as … More