Over the course of forty years, Weston Naef served as curator at two of American’s most prestigious museums. He began his career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, then joined the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for which he proceeded to acquire one of the wo...

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Three decades in the making, the J. Paul Getty Museum will publish a catalogue of the complete work of the American photographer, Carleton Watkins. His reputation long in question, this rigorous 19th-century aesthete found a champion in the renowned curator, Weston Naef.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto invited some art world luminaries to take part in a Japanese tea ritual. Among the guests was the curator Weston Naef, who documented the traditional ceremony.

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During Rock’s 40 glorious years, American Ken Regan took pictures of nearly all of the musicians any rock groupie could possibly dream of. All Access: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Photography of Ken Regan, beyond its historical aspect and photographic skill, provides witness to h...

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I wanted to express that the nudity of a woman is not limited to fulfilling men’s erotic desires. She is worthy of respect. A naked woman can possess her own style, independence and strength.

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Like blocks of memory, the shadows cast by spoil tips lay stripes across the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal basin in Northern France. A photographer of great precision with an eye sensitive to geographic and industrial transformations, Naoya Hatakeyama, spent the past two years roaming these bla...

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My mother and I are the only members left of a big Italian family. She
decided that throwing away all family slides was a big favour to me: ‘It
happened already’, she said, ‘and everybody is gone anyway…’
I had the chance to recover only a box containing some slides,
metalli...

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Not Natasha retraces the tragic, broken lives of young women and girls forced into human trafficking and sent for prostitution across Europe. Dana Popa, born in Romania, focuses on women from neighboring Moldova. One of the poorest European countries, thousands of it...

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When the documentary photographer Jacques Windenberger decided to tell the story of his career, he separated it into periods, as a historian would do. And it did indeed take a historian to provide a frame of reference for the 400,000-plus documents preserved in t...

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