fine art

Instagram Watch: Todd Hido	Museums Are Still Wringing Their Hands Over Photography's Importance Even in 2013, photography's place among the "fine arts" continues to be a topic of discussion—but why?	Portraits Before and After the Fight A look at four photographers using before-and-after photographs to tell stories of violence
A New Look at Richard Avedon's Portraits of the Powerful Richard Avedon’s remarkable journey from fashion and fine art maven to the most trenchant political photographer of our time	APOC: September's Best New Photography Books Three collections worthy of your text book money	Taryn Simon, Tracing Bloodlines at MoMA Working within a rigid, self-imposed documentary system, Simon finds the very human stories often hidden in the margins
On the Wall: Francesca Woodman at The Guggenheim The chronological and geographically-driven exhibition is the most comprehensive display of the artist's work thus far	Cowboy Funky Austin-based Jay B. Sauceda explores the rich folklore of the West through its eccentric characters	Turning Turtles Into Cameras With Onorato & Krebs Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have created some of the strangest cameras you may ever see. It's all part of their irreverent take on photography's conventions in As Long As It Photographs, It Must Be a Camera
The Best Photo Books of 2011 The list is in: our 50 favorites of the year, spanning fine art, photojournalism, culture and more	Instant Expert: Bernd and Hilla Becher An introduction to the omnipresent German husband-and-wife duo, and their formalist industrial studies	Leave Andreas Alone! German photographer seen as "artist," internet rages. A comment on the reaction to Gursky's $4.3 million sale
Indie Photo Books Ad Infinitum at Offprint Paris Highlights from the second-annual gathering of under-the-radar publishers	On the Wall: New Photography 2011 at MoMA We spoke with curator Dan Leers about the six diverse artists chosen for the Museum of Modern Art in New York's annual review	Monica Lozano: Crossing Over Elegant, politically charged portraits conjure parables of a post-NAFTA world

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