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Agenda Exhibitions to See

Timeline • If Walker Evans’s portrayal of Allie Mae Burroughs is an icon of modern photography, it is an unusual one. He made four portraits of her, all slightly different, all circulating as “the one.” Evans published and exhibited the versions, often with varying titles and captions. Audiences rarely know which they’re seeing. Artists from Surrealism to postmodernism have appropriated them, and Evans’s complicated image continues to inspire.

Viewfinder • What do images made before the Russian invasion tell us about the vitality of Ukrainians?

Dispatches • For decades, photographers have chronicled the staggering changes to Seoul, a metropolis in transition—and a new center for the art world.

Studio Visit • In her airy live-work loft high above the cacophony of downtown New York, Rosalind Fox Solomon reflects on her decades-long career.

Alessandra Sanguinetti

We Make Pictures in Order to Live

The Afterimage of Joan Didion • Aside from portraits capturing her own nervy glamour, how might we consider Didion through photography?

Bieke Depoorter Conversations with Pictures • For the Belgian photographer, documentary is a listening exercise and a form of investigation, as she builds relationships with her subjects, blurring the lines between authorship, fiction, and truth.

Nick Waplington Histories from Below • From Nottingham living rooms to New York dance floors and Los Angeles’s surf scene, the British photographer has created records of subcultures that brim with life.

Adraint Bereal The Black Yearbook • A young photographer captures the agony and ecstasy of being a Black college student today.

Eikoh Hosoe Mythic Worlds • In his collaborations with influential literary figures and performers, Hosoe created surreal scenes that invoke the fantastic.

Sea of Cortez

For more than fifty years, Charles “Teenie” Harris created a vivid record of Black life in Pittsburgh. Now, a major archival project stands to reveal the scope of his vision. • The Edges of Memory

Acts of Appearance

New York Joy

Always in Process, Never Finished • Alejandro Cartagena in Conversation with Bruno Ceschel

Family Snaps • A trio of photobooks about domestic life reveals the home as a site of humor, performance, and self-fulfillment.

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