Articles Written by:    DAVID W. DUNLAP     

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Showcase: Emptied but Still Secret

Society can be judged as much by what it abandons as by what it builds. If one hears ghostlike murmurs while looking through Christopher Payne’s photographs in “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,” it may be because the people ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Oliver Sacks

Parting Glance: Evelyn Hofer, 1922-2009

Evelyn Hofer, 87, was a flawless technician and a much sought-after teacher, who searched for an “inside value, some interior respect” in the people she photographed. She favored carefully composed scenes with a still, timeless aura, William Grimes ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: William Grimes

Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009

Smooth, silky, smoky and gentle; as formal as you might expect from the painter he once wanted to be, Roy DeCarava’s photographs speak in a language far softer than we’re accustomed to now. They are no less powerful for their subtlety. They are meant ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Museum of Modern Art,  Calvin Coolidge

Showcase: Infernal Landscapes

Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W. Eugene Smith. (It is, for instance, just about impossible to look at Slide 4 without thinking of “Tomoko Uemura in ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP AND JAMES ESTRIN, International Herald Tribune,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Edward Burtynsky,  Orville Schell,  Asia Society,  Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lens: Images of the Dead

In two years of global warfare, America had yet to see almost any pictures of dead Americans. Then, in September 1943, an issue of Life magazine arrived in people’s homes and at their corner newsstands. It forced them to confront a stark, full-page ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP AND JAMES ESTRIN, The New York Times,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Don McCullin,  New York Times Company,  David Hume,  Robert Gates,  Taliban

The World, as of 9/10/01

The outpouring of comments about this post reminds us how eager people are to share their stories of the World Trade Center. We invite those of you with pictures of the twin towers before Sept. 11, 2001, to share them, too. For Seolbin Park, the ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, The New York Times,  11 Sep 2009

Lens: Showcase: The World, as of 9/10/01

For Seolbin Park, the curator and director of the SB D Gallery in Manhattan, and her husband, Chang W. Lee, a Times photographer, the World Trade Center was a landmark in many ways. The twin towers were, first of all, a literal landmark on the distant ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, The New York Times,  11 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Moving Images, From the Archive

A look at how the city's neighborhoods and residents are coping with the economic downturn. On the Lens blog, the photographer Marilynn K. Yee captures some of New York’s public art, and people’s reactions to it. Susan Knight, the director of college ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, NYT: City Room,  10 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Lens: The Bang Bang Club (Part 2 of 2)

In the second of a two-part series on the Bang Bang Club — a group of four young photographers who unblinkingly chronicled the upheaval in South Africa in the 1990s — Greg Marinovich recalls the torment of watching deadly violence unfold before him. In ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, The New York Times,  21 Aug 2009

Underground, Not Quite Under Cover

David W. Dunlap/The New York Times At the Columbus Circle subway station, a colorful mural designed by Sol LeWitt awaits installation. The confettilike blue and green and yellow and orange and red and purple mural, appropriately titled “Whirls and ...

From DAVID W. DUNLAP, The New York Times,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Sol LeWitt,  Metropolitan Transportation Authority,  New York Giants

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