December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyVisualizing the Environment: Ansel Adams and His Legacy by STEVEN HOELSCHER The first time I encountered the photography of Ansel Adams wasn’t in a museum gallery, but during a college course. I remember the moment well. The course, “Wilderness and the American Mind,” introduced me to that critical, contested concept through a wide range of memorable texts. In… read more
February 1, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1A lost work by Langston Hughes In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race, unpublished in English until 2019. It’s not every day that you come across an extraordinary unknown work by one of the nation’s greatest writers. But buried in an unrelated archive, I discovered a searing essay condemning racism in… read more
December 17, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, PhotographyThe camera as a weapon against racial injustice: Eli Reed’s Black In America During the hot summer months of 2020, especially in the weeks following the May 25th killing of George Floyd while in police custody, the Magnum Photos, Inc. Photography Collection was often on my mind. The scenes of protest that we witnessed, in countless cities across the United States and the… read more
