Miss Rosen
A photographer’s heartfelt vision of the American West
On the road — A special memorial exhibition for Ingeborg Gerdes traces the photographer’s fascination with the American West, which started with a road trip to Nevada in 1982 and became a decade-long project.
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The grit and glamour of New York in the 1970s and ’80s
Street life — Scottish photographer Douglas Corrance recounts capturing joyous street scenes in NYC in an era where almost anyone could afford to live, work and play in the city.
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An intimate portrait of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Berlin
Turkish-born photographer Samet Durgun discusses his collection of portraits of queer refugee and asylum seekers seeking to build a better life for themselves in Germany.
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Pure bliss: revisiting the Isle of Wight Festival of August 1969
Summer of love — Photographer David Hurn recounts documenting the counterculture music event at the height of the swinging ‘60s, which saw performance from the likes of Bob Dylan, The Who and Joe Cocker.
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A lyrical portrait of Black America in the 20th century
Soul of the country — A new exhibition brings together the work of Roland L. Freeman, a documentarian whose photos capture the joyous spectrum of rural and urban Black American life during the 1960s, ’70 and ‘80s.
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A photographer’s poetic vision of America in the ‘80s
On the road — A new exhibition brings together photographs from Stephan Erfurt taken during his time traversing the US in an old VW camper in 1988.
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A joyous portrait of Notting Hill Carnival in 1974
Dancing in the streets — Photographer Chris Miles recounts capturing the annual event in the ‘70s, and its vital legacy of community activism and resilience born out of oppression and prejudice.
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A kaleidoscopic history of the queercore scene in the ‘90s
Punk revolution — A new book is celebrating queercore, which brought together music, zines, photography, art, film, writing, performance art and style, and the people on the inside of the movement who made it an underground phenomenon.
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Vintage portraits of Illinois students in the 1970s
After class — Former teacher Alan Moss recalls photographing Hughes-Quinn Junior High – a school in a troubled area with an often misunderstood student body.
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A portrait of American street life in the analogue era
Headed west — A new book brings together photographer Paul McDonough’s vibrant scenes of Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Portland, and New Orleans, as well as on the road, to offer an elegiac topography of the late 20th century.
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