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Half a millennium after Botticelli painted Venus as the central figure in the mysterious parable of Primavera, Rineke Dijkstra brings the figure back for a solo turn in the form […]

Nineteen art historians, critics, curators and writers comment on the artists they believe to be underrated or overrated. For example, Andy Warhol is considered both overrated and underrated, as is Jules Olitski.

Inasmuch as movies seem to wag real events these days, it's not much of a stretch to see Philip-Lorca diCorcia's recent color photographs of crowded city streets as film stills [...]

Vik Muniz's Sigmund, 1997, is a five-by-four-foot color photograph of a drawing made with chocolate syrup on a five-by-four-inch piece of white plastic. Muniz used a view camera mounted on [...]

WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS NOW AS ART AS NEVER BEFORE By Michael Fried Yale University Press 408 pp. $55 Critic and art historian Michael Fried made his reputation with the 1967 [...]

THE SOILING OF OLD GLORY: The Story of a Photograph that Shocked America By Louis P. Masur Bloomsbury | $24. 95 Adobe Photoshop arrived in the early 1990s, concurrent with [...]

MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Second-generation (read post-1968) Magnum photojournalist Raymond Depardon mixes traditional hand-camera lyricism with a measure of political purpose. Less combat-oriented than Robert Capa but not so […]

Wolfgang Laib, whose largest US retrospective to date began its tour at the Hirshhorn in October, is an artist of particular import for a historical moment when 'sensation' and 'brilliance' [...]

RUPERTINUM MODERNE GALERIE As heir apparent to Alfred Stieglitz, Minor White was long counted the postwar torchbearer of subjective 'art photography.' Since his death in 1976, White's influence has all [...]

FUNDACIO 'LA CAIXA' Is it time to reevaluate the legacy of Harry Callahan? The Detroit-born photographer's combination of rigorous formalism and casual intimacy can be seen in this show (organized [...]

J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Although it's practically a given that Eugene Atget was the most influential photographer of the last century, the Getty may be right in assuming that much [...]

NEUER BERLINER KUNSTVEREIN There's been no shortage of Japanese photography exhibitions of late, but this show has a leg up: Hiromi Nakamura, a curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of [...]

Umbrella effect with direct flash: Rokach lit the underside of a rose (above left) with the output of an Olympus T-32 flash, angled 45[deg.] from the lens and some 2 [...]

What Went Wrong? Do the pictures from your last roll look terrible? Is there a big black bar over Aunt Alice's face? Are all your vacation slides white as a [...]