The Getty has acquired Irving Penn’s master set of prints from his series, The Small Trades. Penn considered these blue-collar portraits some of the most important of his long and influential career.
Article in the NY Times.

A retrospective of Helen Levitt’s street photography from New York that spans seven decades is being shown at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris.
Above: Helen Levitt, New York, 1971, Laurence Miller Gallery

The International Center of Photography is now exhibiting Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art which includes works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. Reviewed by the New York Times.
Above: Fazal Sheikh, Afghan Images, Haji Qiamuddin holding a photograph of his […]

Nano-explosions from Fanny Beron’s first-place image from the Science as Art competition.