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Bruce Davidson's Subway | TateShots
In the 1980s the Subway in New York was poorly run, poorly lit and considered dangerous. Photographer Bruce Davidson decided to head underground to embark on what he called 'a voyage of discovery'. In Davidson's own words, 'I wanted to...
Tate
Taryn Simon – 'We're All Ghosts of Another Time' | TateShots
American photographer Taryn Simon talks about her Tate Modern exhibition, 'A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters'. Simon mixes photography and text in a series works that chart family bloodlines. At the heart of each group of...
Curated Video
Why people never smiled in old photos
Early portraits looked pretty grim. A lot of old photos from the 19th and early 20th century are fraught with doom and gloom—and on the occasion the literal dead face. That led to the popular belief that people just did not smile in old...
Curated Video
Color film was built for white people. Here's what it did to dark skin.
The unfortunate history of racial bias in photography. Subscribe today: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply weren't adequate to capture...
The Met
Installation Tour of Art of Native America 7/9: Shoulder Bag
Part 7 of 9: Join Gaylord Torrence and Brian Vallo for a closer look at, and in-depth commentary on, a selection of highlights in the exhibition Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection....
The Art Assignment
The Art History of the Selfie | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Artists have been taking selfies since the dawn of photography. Cameras allowed people to capture their own image in a way that had never been possible in all of human history, and today most of us carry these magical devices in our...
Great Big Story
William Wegman: The Art of Weimaraners
Dive into the world of William Wegman, renowned as 'The Dog Photographer', and explore his 45-year journey with Weimaraners, transforming them into artful characters and landscapes.
TED-Ed
From Aaliyah to Jay-Z: Captured Moments in Hip-hop History
To take "the definitive portrait of that person in that moment" is the quest of photographer and hip-hop historian Jonathan Mannion. In this short video, Mannion details his dedication to his art and the process he goes through to catch...
TED-Ed
How to Take a Great Picture
Have you ever wondered how a camera uses light to capture an image? Carolina Molinari, photographer and educator, demonstrates the working parts of a camera through an animation which shows how the aperture, ISO sensitivity and shutter...
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