Architectural Afterlives
Fleeting witnesses to a vanished past.
On Highway 67 (and Beyond)
In a varied and decades-long career as a photographer and videographer Charlie Steiner C’68 has traveled around the world. But he still keeps coming back to the 1960s on Penn’s campus, where he got his start.
Art Tools and Nature Machines
Carl Cheng’s art of the Anthropocene at ICA.
Meeting Danger with Courage and Grace
Medical mobilization, March 2020.
The Instrument Is Yourself
Harvey Finkle SW’61 and the photography of social justice.
The Making of Things
Over a decade-long photographic journey, Christopher Payne GAr’96 has explored the world of American manufacturing, from pianos to jet engines, pencils to 3D-printed rockets.
Another Realm
New photographs by Arthur Drooker C’76 explore the elusive moments before dusk when “vivid colors paint the sky with magic and mystery.”
A Life with Others
An exhibition of Laurence Salzmann’s work at Penn Libraries.
The Double Life of Ernest Withers
A double exposure in Lise Yasui C’77’s The Picture Taker.
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.