Head Trip
A Penn Libraries exhibit melds Arthur Tress’s surreal photography with his voracious appetite for Japanese illustration.
Sea Stewards
In a pair of new books, on coral reefs and sperm whales, two impassioned ocean lovers offer contrasting visions of how to safeguard its splendors.
Framing History
A pair of history profs teams up with Getty Images to create a public-facing, photography-oriented window into Black history.
Delayed Exposure
Revealing biography. Vivian Maier Developed.
Through a Rose-Tinted Lens
Images of joy at SeeingHappy.
Black Education Before Brown
Andrew Feiler W’84 documents the Rosenwald schools, which educated hundreds of thousands of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Civic Pride
Good(-looking) government in Arthur Drooker C’76’s City Hall.
Passages to India
Images—9,000(!)—from an extraordinary life.
Facing the Refugee Crisis
Alumni couple’s Power of Faces project highlights refugees’ humanity.
My Own Private Iowa
Buildings under a big sky.
Beyond the Binary
For 40 years, Mariette Pathy Allen GFA’65 has focused her camera on gender identity and expressions of gender. Through portraits of men who identified as crossdressers in the 1980s—and later, through photos of the transgender community and trans rights movement—she has shined a light on people who were often pushed to the margins of society. Some consider her the unofficial photographer of transgender life. But finding her place in the fine art world has been another story.
The Imperfectionist
Celebrating the “intrinsic beauty of the imperfect.”
Three Ways of Seeing Rome
Three Women Photographers in Rome at Arthur Ross Gallery.
Mark Ayzenberg C’09 Won’t Quit His Day Job
Orthopedic surgeon Mark Ayzenberg C’09 can wield a Nikon camera with as much finesse as he can an arthroscope.
The Shadows Know
Nadine Epstein C’78 G’78 and her iShadow.
Take Ivy, Take Two
33 to 40 offers a “snapshot of Penn at a very specific moment”