American photography

Sarah Moroz: Mark Cohen has spent decades doing hit-and-run street photography in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His pictures are always taken from waist-height, so he can keep his wits about him – and he's taken 800,000 shots he's never even seen

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The photographer Carrie Mae Weems charts her exploration of the African-American experience in a traveling 30-year retrospective now at the Guggenheim Museum.

Ted Croner gelatin prints from 1940s

London's National Portrait Gallery opens a landmark retrospective on the Americana-hoarding, colour photography pioneer William Eggleston.

Investing her interest in memory and its mechanisms into her work, Polish artist Weronika Gesicka modifies American stock photography from the 1950s and ’60s, questioning...

Photographer and creative director Shawn Theodore merges photography, collage and sculpture to “create ‘afromythological’ experiences and environments”, championing black experiences within contemporary environments.

Robert Frank | International Center of Photography

Arnaud Montagard's photographs of an American road trip look like Edward Hopper paintings.

Vintage African American photography courtesy of Black History Album, The Way We Were. Follow Us On Twitter @blackhistoryalb