Donna San Francisco has changed both rapidly and radically over recent years. As it’s become more appealing both for cosmopolitan urbanites and the exploding tech sector, gentrification has blessed The City by the Bay with the most expensive one-bedroom apartment in America, even surpassing New York. Many mourn the loss of an earlier San Francisco and its formerly affordable counterculture and queer subculture, while San Francisco documentary photographer and filmmaker James Hosking manages to actually catch some of the twilight. For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. The notoriously seedy Tenderloin has managed to mostly resist gentrification on the merits of its reputation and a concerted effort by inhabitants. Still, without the surrounding culture of a former San Francisco to sustain it, the once vibrant queer scene has faded. Hosking’s photographs are intimate and unflinching, but the mini-documentary is also an amazing portrait of three drag foremothers. Their reflections and reminiscing are complex but disarmingly at peace, and their performances and beauty rituals are (as...

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Jim Grover’s photographs of the Windrush generation at home in south London are a joy. His project began in June 2017 in Grover’s local church. A parishioner invited him to see the clubs where he played “bones”. “It was a revelation to me,” says Grover. “I had no idea that Caribbean migrants met three times a … Continue reading "A Year With London’s Windrush Generation"

New exhibition at the Ulster Museum Belfast charts personal horrors of Norther Ireland conflict

Another larger than life character from the streets of old Havana. These wonderful ladies certainly know how to choose their backgrounds to make an amateur photographer happy! Camera: Nikon DF Lens: Nikkor AF-S 50mm ƒ/1.8 Exif: ƒ/2.2 | ISO 100 @ 1/1250th sec Comments and criticism welcome. You can follow me further on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (Nuzulugram).

Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.

Pierced by pins, tormented by ravens, obscured by bathtub bubbles … the great Japanese photographer created astonishing, disturbing and highly personal images of himself, his family – and his beloved cat Sasuke the Second

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Anders Petersen was eighteen when he traveled from his home in Sweden to Hamburg’s red light district the Reeperbahn. He wanted to escape his upbringing, shed his comfortable bourgeois skin and try on another to see how it felt. His parents had separated when he was young and he had been brought up by his grandmother in the quiet of the countryside amid fields and cherry trees and a darkening border of a forest. It was an idyllic fairytale world, but boring. The Reeperbahn was a chaotic world of excitement, and pleasure, and excess, and danger. He met a green-eyed Finnish woman who worked the main drag. They became lovers and Petersen was introduced to the world of prostitutes, drag queens, drug addicts, drunks, pimps, and thieves. He took courage from his lover, from beer and from amphetamines (Preludin) to finally break free of the rules and manners, the lies and constraints of his bourgeois childhood. He had found himself another family who lived their lives without care, without shame, without judgment or censure. Petersen made friends with these characters who shambled joyously through the night at the local bar like the Café Lehmitz. All too soon it...

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フランスの写真家＋モデル©Valentin Perrin の作品。ロココ、ニューウェーブ、ニューロマンティクス！Lunatic Asylumの患者たちによるデカダンな舞踏会、といった趣。すき。

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A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom.

Eleveur(se), Lima-Cusco, Pérou. 2011 Sur la route, deux femmes passent avec leurs bêtes. Le photographe : Je peux vous prendre en photo? La femme fait signe de la tête que oui. Le photographe se prépare. La femme se recoiffe, redresse son chapeau, ajuste son foulard et tend le doigt fièrement. Shoot. La femme : Merci. Le photographe : C’est moi.

Neanderthals are the closest extinct human relative. With their large middle part of the face, huge nose, and angular cheekbones, they seem like completely different creatures to us—cavemen. However, they were not so different from us as their brains were as large as ours and there’s even some evidence that they buried their dead, occasionally marking graves with offerings such as flowers. And that’s something that no other primate or human species has ever practiced beside us.

“Every night we headed out for 4 or 5 hours seeking customers in Amsterdam’s entertainment districts. Although at first we were not sure we would succeed, in retrospect I can see our success was virtually assured,” says Marc Miller of his work with his fellow New York-based artist Bettie Ringma (1944-2018) in 1979-1980. “Dutch art … Continue reading "Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980 – Love, Hair And Brothel Creepers"

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Not all quirky braids require a professional—you can handle these. Ahead, see 36 cool and easy braids to try, along with tips from hairstylists.

In Afghanistan, a woman who has premarital sex or cheats on her husband can be charged with moral crimes and imprisoned. Many of these women serve their time with their children by their side.

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There are faces in the roads, rivers, and mountainous contours of these maps.

I bought this 1920s image because she looked just like a sweet and friendly Filipina bar girl I once knew in Okinawa, Japan. As a photo historian, archivist, and curator of my own Flickr exhibitions, such factors are of paramount importance when deciding what images to acquire.... ;-) On a more serious and interesting note, please see Elmer's educational comments at # 6 below, as well as his notes in the photo itself ! Thanks, Elmer.

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The influencers of previous times became famous for their talents and iconic works, as well as the way they presented themselves. Perhaps we could go back to those days? In the meantime, let us present those old legends as if they were the "heroes" of today. You gotta admit, they do look cool!

Shalom Harlow | Strenesse (1990s) ph. Ellen von Unwerth

A stunning new collection of portraits—comprising individuals from Polynesia and South Sudan to Chad and China—is a testament to preserving imperiled cultures

Born Diane Nemerov in 1923, to a wealthy family in New York, Diane Arbus started out in photography shooting fashion with her husband, Allan Arbus, working for magazines such as Glamour, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar. In 1956 she quit commercial photography - apparently announcing "I can’t do it anymore. I’m not going to do it anymore" during a spring shoot for Vogue - and took to the streets, documenting passersby, and studying with Lisette Model. Quickly finding her signature style, her work was shown in the New Documents exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1967, which was curated by John Szarkowski and also included work by Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Her portraits proved divisive, and has remained so - some, mostly notably Susan Sontag, judging it coldly voyeuristic, while others feel a sense of empathy. Arbus' subjects often came from outside of her personal sphere, the circus, for example, or New York's clubs, and she herself stated that her favourite thing was "to go where I've never been". On the other hand, she could also find a sense of the unsettling in Central Park. In 1971, she took her own life.

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Kiyomi Iwata shares her advice on how to create art while on the seesaw of children and career.

John Deakin. Portrait of Francis Bacon. 1952.