Topic: documentary photography

Gillian Laub for TIME
Photo Essay

Last Dance: American Proms by Gillian Laub

Gillian Laub crossed the country to capture the bittersweet anticipation and excitement of high-school proms for TIME.

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Christine Osinski
Out There

Staten Island: Christine Osinski’s Unseen Photographs of New York City’s Forgotten Borough

In the early ’80s Staten Island seemed like a world away from Manhattan. In Chrisitine Osinki’s newly rediscoved photographs, she reveals a time capsule of the growing borough, caught in a state of limbo between New York City and the rest of America. She recently launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of turning the archive into a new book.

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Joakim Eskildsen
In Progress

‘Home Works’ by Joakim Eskildsen

Joakim Eskildsen’s new body of work explores the poetry of place through the five different homes to which he has moved his family over the past six years.

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Dawoud Bey
Out There

Harlem Revisited: A New Look at Dawoud Bey’s New York Portraits

Present-day Chicago is not Harlem in 1979. Present-day Harlem isn’t even Harlem in 1979. But at the Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA, some things have stayed the same.

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LaToya Ruby Frazier
Out There

When the Personal Turns Political: LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Whitney Biennial

In her latest projects, currently featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, LaToya Ruby Frazier continues to use social documentary as a starting point for her political works of art.

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Arthur Tress
Out There

California Dreaming In 1964: Arthur Tress’ San Francisco

Arthur Tress’ witty and absurdist street photography captures 1960s-era San Francisco as a place caught between Left and Right, old and new, real and surreal. The work is on view at the Fisher Family Gallery of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from March 3 to June 3.

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David Zimmerman
Out There

Clothing as Artifact: David Zimmerman’s ‘Last Refuge’

A landscape photographer makes exquisite studies of discarded clothes found at a squatter camp in the New Mexican desert.

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Lourdes Jeannette
In Progress

Blood Ties: A Photographer Captures Gang Culture In Her Family

Lourdes Jeannette documents the daily life of a group based in Tampa, Florida.

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Jesse Burke
Photo Essay

In a Lonely Place: Jesse Burke’s Deer Stands

As shooting season begins across the country, TIME looks at one photographer’s series on hunting blinds.

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Ty Cacek for TIME
Photo Essay

The Ku Klux Klan Revisited

Photojournalist Ty Cacek has been documenting the group since 2009, in an effort to understand how reasonable people come to adopt an unreasonable philosophy of hate.

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