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Annenberg Space for Photography Focuses On World Refugee Crisis

Incredible Nature Time-Lapse Recorded Using Decade Old Nikon Point-and-Shoot

On the Wall: Mike Brodie’s Vagabond Life

Google+ Now Redirecting People Away From Picasa Web, Rolling Out Bigger Cover Photos

Meet Tribe, the World’s First Arab Photography Magazine

Some Great Work in This Year’s PDN 30

Four Photographers To Follow on Instagram This Memorial Day Weekend

On the Wall: A Colorful Miasma In the Bronson Caves

Shoot Now, Think Later: Hiroyuki Ito Rediscovers Japan

Facebook Will Delete Auto-Uploaded Smartphone Photos Unless You Download the Moments App

16 Outstanding Photography Shows at PHotoEspaña 2016

Queen of England Wears Chroma Key Green Suit, Photoshop Enthusiasts Spring Into Action

Danny Lyon’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the Whitney

Cindy Sherman’s Cinematic Self-Portraits On View at The Broad

Inside the International Center of Photography’s Inaugural Exhibition

Restaurants Banning Customers From Taking Pictures Of Their Food

Twitter Stickers Are a Fun Way to Completely Ruin Your Photos

Photographers Pay Tribute to Bill Cunningham on Instagram

Instagram Watch: Jennilee Marigomen

Japan’s Golden Age of Photo Magazines Comes to Tumblr

Best Photography Exhibitions of Summer 2016

Exhibits to Watch in 2013: Irving Penn’s “Underfoot”

Getty Signs Deal With Google, Gives Photographers Pittance

Exhibits to Watch in 2013: Bill Brandt at MoMA

Exhibits to Watch in 2013: Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA

Instagram Takeover: Jeff Dunas Shows Us Around Arles During Les Rencontres de la Photographie

How One Blind Man Uses Instagram

Instagram’s New Terms of Service Make Lame Filters The Least Of User Worries

Instagram Takeover: Saverio Truglia Photographs From the Ground of the Democratic National Convention

Twitter Working On Photo Filters As It Pulls Away From Instagram

Instagram Adds “Stories” Feature That Feels A Lot Like Snapchat

The Power of Civilians and Cell Phones

Photography Is Magic: Aperture’s Exhibition Plays on the Mystique of the Medium

Capturing the Powerful Visual Legacy of the Black Panthers

Paris Photo: The Life and Times of a Hungarian Ice Cream Truck

Paris Photo: Timm Rautert

Facebook Makes Image Identification Software Available to the Public

Instagram Finally Adds Pinch-To-Zoom On Photos And Videos

Don’t Fall For Instagram Scams

The Best Documentary Photography Projects We Saw at Visa pour l’Image 2016

Time Hired Five Photojournalists To Instagram Hurricane Sandy

Begging Over Social Media Is How The News Gets Photos Now

Instagram Takeover: Alexander Thompson Shows Us NYFW

Instagram Watch: Firefighter Gabriel Angemi’s Portrait of Camden

Lawyers Go After BuzzFeed For $1.35M Over 9 Images

Our Favorite Titles from the 2016 NY Art Book Fair

Visualizing How Viral Images Propagate On Facebook

10 Outstanding Documentary Photography Projects To See At Photoville 2016

Best Photography Exhibitions of Fall 2016

Famous Photo of Scientist Marie Curie Actually Depicts A Modern Actress

Instagram Takeover: Maureen Drennan’s Portraits of Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands

The Controversy Over Demi Moore’s Hips

On the Wall: Andy Freeberg’s Art For Art’s Sake

Instagram Updates For iPhone 5, Loses Live Filters In The Process

Free “Professional Digital Photo” With The Purchase Of…What?

On the Wall: Ori Gersht’s Haunting Lives, Still and Otherwise

Slideluck Potshow

Low Prices (Gasp!) Lure New Collectors to Amsterdam’s Unseen Photo Fair

Photographer Justyna Mielnikiewicz Awarded 2016 W. Eugene Smith Grant

6 Truths About Photography We Were Reminded of at FotoFocus Biennial 2016 in Cincinnati

Instagram Takeover: Naomi Harris at Paris Photo

Kanye West: Photo Critic?
