Small Things in SilenceJapanese photographer Masao Yamamoto trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested himthe ability of the image to evoke memories. Small Things in Silence surveys the 20 year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in

Inspired by his daughter’s entrance into adulthood and her imminent departure from home

which they likely bought the day before for the price of an old lawn mower

Described by its editor Vijay Prashad as about “the beauty and tragedy of our world

The original edition of American Photographs was a carefully prepared letterpress production

In the newly commissioned essay "Impure Alchemy

the artist’s embracing of the process of life

beloved bodies

Los Angeles-based photographer Mike Slack offers a meditative

Yemchuk makes images that teeter on the threshold between her Eastern European heritage and her daily life in New York

nonfiction and mythology

After graduating

but to which we aren’t able to attach a body