Photography

August 16, 2026

Black-And-White Photo Exhibition Explores 50 Years of a Changing American Landscape

For five decades, photographer Mimi Plumb has turned her camera toward a changing American landscape. Now, her first museum exhibition, Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb, brings together three major bodies of work at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. On view through September 27, 2026, the exhibition follows Plumb’s photographs from the 1970s to the present.

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August 13, 2026

100+ Iconic Photos Explore the Power of Presence in This Traveling Exhibition

Photography, as theorist Roland Barthes once argued, functions as a kind of proof, a “certificate of presence” confirming that a moment, person, or place truly existed. That idea anchors Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder, a new traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA). It features more than 100 photographs by over 50 artists, all drawn from one of the most significant private photography collections in the United States.

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August 8, 2026

Photographer’s Lifelong Love of Flowers Blossoms in Exhibition Documenting Art and Horticulture

For Edward Steichen, the garden was never separate from art. The celebrated photographer, painter, and plant breeder spent much of his life cultivating flowers with the same intensity and curiosity that he brought to the camera. Now, Edward Steichen and the Garden at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, brings this lesser-known dimension of his practice into focus.

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