Through the course of the nineteenth century, white photographers making portraits of Native American sitters generally framed their subjects in stereotypical ways that exoticized their culture. Many of these photographs… Read More
As NOMA considers the various aspects of sustainability this week, this three-picture story looks at an unsustainable resource and practice: coal and its extraction. As an unrenewable fossil fuel that… Read More
Berenice Abbott began her Changing New York project in 1929, an effort to document the city’s transformation as New York entered a new period of demolition and redevelopment. Read More
John Moyer Heathcote was an amateur painter and photographer in Norfolk, England, where he likely took this photograph of a windmill. Heathcote documented architecture and rural scenes, compiling photographs in… Read More
NOMA’s vast collection of photography includes numerous examples of religious practices captured on film. Featured here are eight selections —ranging from an evangelistic preacher in 1930s-era Harlem to Muslim women… Read More
As a captain in the East India Company army, Linnaeus Tripe produced some of the earliest photographs of India and Burma in the 1850s. Many of his photographs were ultimately set into a series of lavish bound albums that comprised a visual survey of these locations. Read More
Karl Struss was an active member of the pictorialist photography community, which favored soft, dark, and carefully crafted prints. The Faith Healer is a kind of film still on the set of the 1921 silent movie, now lost. Read More
A visitor to the shrine at Lourdes could purchase a photograph as a souvenir, or such images could order one from a photographer’s catalog without ever making the pilgrimage. For a person of faith, viewing this photograph in an album or on the mantle could call up feelings of hope and reverence across time and space. Read More
A unique camera-less photograph NOMA’s collection was part of an extensive project to document plants from Great Britain and British colonies like Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). This cyanotype illustrates an early example of how important photography would become in our attempts to learn about and protect the natural world. Read More
On Wednesday, March 11, at noon Benjamin Benus, an associate professor of art and design history at Loyola University in New Orleans who specializes in the history of twentieth-century art… Read More
Photographer Tina Freeman’s pairing of images of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic creates a visual dialogue about the connectivity of two disparate but interdependent ecosystems. Read More
NOMA loans 28 photographic masterworks to THNOC Laughlin exhibition Read More
Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction and Photography Is are on view September 9, 2016-February 19, 2017 NEW ORLEANS, LA-Based on NOMA’s permanent collection, Something… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA – This spring, NOMA will explore the historical and contemporary role of the photographic negative in three related presentations. Drawing mostly on its own permanent collection, NOMA… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt This article originally appeared here Tina Barney is a photographer with an anthropological passion for documenting the most mysterious of American subcultures: old-time wealthy white people…. Read More
Time.com | TIME This article originally appeared here Each November, as hundreds of photographers and artists converge on the French capital for Paris Photo, photobook enthusiasts gather to celebrate the… Read More
Ten years ago this week New Orleans was under water. A decade later, people who survived the flood are still turning to art to make sense of Hurricane Katrina’s fury…. Read More
By Cameron Shaw | The New York Times This feature originally appeared here > NEW ORLEANS — How well do you remember the last days of August 10 years ago?… Read More