Vernacular Photography

The Bizarre Ritual of the 19th Century Wedding Photo

By Alexandra Genova

An Ode to Amateur Photographers

By Alexandra Genova

Double Happiness: The Strange Use of Cigarettes at Chinese Weddings

By Ye Ming

The American Worker's ID Badge as Art and a Sign of the Times

By Lyle Rexer
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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LightBox presents a series of unpublished photographs made by the inimitable, prolific and controversial cartoonist as source material for his drawings, a rough typology of traffic lights, power lines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

The Vanishing Art of the Family Photo Album

Comprising found and anonymous family photo albums, Kessels' new book and exhibition is the result of nearly 15 years spent rummaging through flea markets and second-hand stores across the globe, a meditation on the nature of obsolescence and a vanishing vernacular art form.

By Tim Clark

Bill Hunt's Unseen Eye

The New York photo collector's new book and exhibition focus on images in which the subject's gaze has been averted or covered.

By Feifei Sun
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