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The Matsue Rule
Taiji Matsue’s photographs of landscapes appear to be paintings for the sheer scale of content—geometric lines of cities and curves of mountains so elegant they could only be fake, except that they’re real.
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Men at Their Most Masculine
Chad States photographs his subjects in the poses and settings they find most masculine, making portraits of masculinity that broaden our ideas of what it means to be a man today.
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Sheena Is a Taqwacore
In 2007, a Muslim punk band boarded a green bus and traveled across the country to play shows. Along for the ride was photographer Kim Badawi.
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The Storefront Churches of Chicago
Small details make a space unique, familiar, and alive. Photographer Dave Jordano knows that a personal, individual spirit can bring a place to life, and shows us it’s not only how, but where congregations pray that defines their faith.
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A Stroll Down First Avenue
Matthew Baldwin and photographer Caitlin Burke take a jaunt along downtown Seattle’s main artery.
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Cool, Cool Water
Photographer Christian Chaize’s presents a charming portrait of a small patch of sand as it changes from day to day.
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Black Patches
Through collecting and many Freedom of Information requests, Trevor Paglen assembles a full sash of secret military badges, and they make for a fun tour through some vaguely unsettling regalia.
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Once the World’s Fair
Once upon a time you needed to visit the latest World’s Fair to see what was new—and the structures and relics of those events still live among us, even if they’re treated like so many architectural burger wrappers.
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The Notion of Family
LaToya Ruby Frazier may be right that there is dysfunction in every home, but not every tense mother-daughter relationship receives such meditative and artistic consideration.
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Sites of Impact
Stan Gaz brings together 85 gorgeous portraits of “impact sites”—pockmarks on the Earth marking where the planet’s been struck by meteorite fragments.
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Blind Prom
These photos from the prom for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired trigger one of those reality-check moments for sighted audiences—of course visually impaired students go to the prom, and you’ll recognize your own prom night in these celebratory pictures.
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Teen and Transgender Comparative Study
The series is a correlation of two stages of transformation, pairing teen girls (12-14) with like adult male-to-female transsexuals.