Eugene Reznik

Recent Articles

Donigan Cumming's Photography of the Absurd

"Books on Books 19" by Errata Editions revisits Donigan Cumming's baffling, provocative, hilarious and rarely seen 1991 monograph, "The Stage."

By Eugene Reznik

Shining a Spotlight on Arab Artists, Fotofest Biennial Opens in Houston

The nation’s longest-running festival of international photography and multimedia art provides a counterpoint to many of the contemporary art fairs underway around the country by bringing into focus the long overlooked work of art photographers from the Arab world.

By Eugene Reznik

Romanian Ghosts: The Race to Save a Hauntingly Beautiful Photo Archive

Time has rendered these portraits virtual abstractions. Beyond the psychedelic swirls of their shrinking, pealing emulsion, next to nothing is known about the subjects of the photographs, and very little about the photographer who made...

By Eugene Reznik

The World of Boys: Intimate, Emotionally Charged Portraits by Laura Pannack

For this week's issue, TIME commissioned photographer Laura Pannack, known for her highly nuanced portraits of adolescents, to photograph teenage boys in all their complexity in spite of our culture's steadfast tendency to often treat them as "emotional illiterates."

By Eugene Reznik

Africa's Nowhere Land: Photos From Abyei, Where Ancient Tensions Smolder

Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic on the ground in Abyei, a disputed region between South Sudan and Sudan, as tensions escalate following the results today of a unanimous, one-sided referendum vote to join the world's newest nation.

By Eugene Reznik

Grit, Grain, Veins: The Diaristic Photographs of Jacob Aue Sobol

LightBox presents raw, grainy, intimate stream-of-consciousness-style photographs featured in the Magnum photographer's latest book, Veins, a close-up on "people at the edge, on the edge of sanity, at the edges of society, down the wrong end of the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, or in an Inuit settlement in Greenland."

By Eugene Reznik

On Robert Capa's 100th Birthday, Magnum Asks Photographers Everywhere to #GetCloser100

For the centenary of the late, great conflict photographer, Magnum Photos is launching a new project to create "100 organically-grown visual threads, each born out of a Capa image," by asking photographers everywhere to share their visual responses to his work on social media.

By Eugene Reznik

The Non-Conformists: Martin Parr's Early Work in Black-and-White

LightBox presents photographs from Martin Parr's earliest major body of work from the 70s featured in his latest Aperture monograph — an affectionate, humorous look at a picturesque English mill town and the quirky, independent spirit of its inhabitants.

By Eugene Reznik

Off Your Phone and On View: The National #Selfie Portrait Gallery

LightBox interviews Kyle Chayka and Marina Galperina, curators of one of the first major exhibitions examining the phenomenon of the "selfie," on view at the Moving Image Contemporary Art Fair in London.

By Eugene Reznik

R. Crumb's Snapshots: Source Material of the Legendary Comic Artist

LightBox presents a series of unpublished photographs made by the inimitable, prolific and controversial cartoonist as source material for his drawings, a rough typology of traffic lights, power lines and other infrastructure used to fill in his bleak background reality of urban life.

By Eugene Reznik

Iranian Censorship as Art: Portraits of Absence by Phillip Toledano

Sourced from censored images of women on product packaging found on store shelves in Iran, Toledano's series highlights the absurdity of the attempt on behalf of state and religious authorities to black out, with marker in hand, one half of humanity.

By Eugene Reznik

A Perfect Daughter: Gender Reassignment by Gillian Laub

Nikki, born a biological boy named Niko, began at the age of 10 the complicated transition to becoming girl. Gillian Laub's video captures how through the loving support of family and friends, two years later, Nikki is living happily as the person she always knew herself to be.

By Eugene Reznik

Theater of the Streets, Shot On Google Glass

LightBox presents an interview with Richard Koci Hernandez, one of the first professional photographers to embark on an extended exploration of the streets with Google Glass, about his noir-styled pictures and the future of the form.

By Eugene Reznik

Burned to Nothing: When Photographers Destroy Their Own Negatives

Photographers have been bringing a flame to their film and sending it up in smoke since the inception of the medium. Their reasons — aesthetic, emotional, practical and political — are as varied as the sensibilities of the work produced through the years.

By Eugene Reznik

Steichen's Family of Man Restored: New Life for a Photographic Touchstone

After a three-year process of cleaning and retouching, the well-worn prints of Edward Steichen's celebrated 1955 exhibition have been masterfully restored and are on permanent public view at Clervaux Castle in his native Luxembourg.

By Eugene Reznik

Announcing the 2013 Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant Winners

Six talented artists were awarded the Individual Photographer's Fellowship grants this year presented by the Aaron Siskind Foundation, honoring the legacy of the legendary photographer best known for pioneering lens-based modernist abstraction.

By Eugene Reznik

A Glance at the 2013 LOOK3 Photo Festival

A weekend of "peace, love and photography," the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph highlights work by Gregory Crewdson, Susan Meiselas, Richard Misrach, Michael Nichols, Josef Koudelka, Carrie Mae Weems and many others.

By Eugene Reznik

The Troubles of Paradise: Paolo Marchetti Documents the Stains of Kerala

Italian photographer Paolo Marchetti traveled to India to document the state of Kerala — renowned for its beautiful scenery and high life expectancy but plagued by a growing number of homeless, alcoholics and suicides.

By Eugene Reznik

Ponte City: An Apartheid-Era High Rise Mired in Myth

South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky and British artist Patrick Waterhouse set out to create an epic visual document exploring the long and complex history of Ponte City, the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa and a common symbol of apartheid.

By Eugene Reznik

The Sam Abell Library: 40 Years of Life and Still Life

A new 16-volume collection presents 40 years of the National Geographic photographer's understated, mostly unpublished color documentary work. Sam Abell photographs places—Newfoundland, Hagi, Japan and Northern Australia—for the first set of four books due out this winter.

By Eugene Reznik
More from TIME
More From TIME