Tag: Richard Avedon

  • Nation & World

    Taking it all personally

    Now through Dec. 30 at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, a series of photos shines a light on the America that author and social critic James Baldwin was responding to with his words. “Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America” tracks the social unrest that drove his writing and reflect…

    5 minutes
    Vietnam War protesters march in Chicago in 1968 holding sign reading "Unite or perish."
  • Nation & World

    A luminous vision for Harvard Yard

    Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The proof is in the print

    “Analog Culture” features approximately 90 prints from the celebrated Manhattan photo lab of Gary Schneider and John Erdman.

    5 minutes
    John Schabel, Night Shot 6, 2001.
  • Nation & World

    Curating a visual record

    Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, assistant professor of the history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies, guest edited the magazine Aperture, producing an issue called “Vision & Justice,” the first on African-Americans, race, and photography for the magazine.

    5 minutes