One of China’s most distinctive young photographers, Ren Hang makes cool, saturated images that are tightly composed and lit with stark flash. Prominently featuring red lips, black hair, and supple flesh, his photography creates a world where sex, desire, and the joy of voyeurism create a visceral effect. By Stephanie H. Tung
Words Fall 2020Delighting in male beauty and gender play, a prolific Swiss photographer reinvented the rules of attraction. By Alistair O’Neill
What does a photograph sound like? In this sonic sequence, a group of leading curators, writers, and historians reflect on images that won’t stay quiet. By
Pictures Summer 2019The Palace of Versailles has been fetishized by photographers since Eugène Atget—"a Balzac of the camera," in Berenice Abbott’s words—first fixed the crumbling statuary of its gardens in his romantic gaze early in the twentieth century. By Jerry Stafford
Pictures Winter 2013Filmmaker and sculptor Len Lye made about forty-eight cameraless photographic portraits of friends and acquaintances. By Geoffrey Batchen
Summer 1967My work has moved into something of the composite, of collected and related moments. By Ray K. Metzker