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Category: Photography
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Cold Plunges and Cuddling With Cats: Photographing the ‘Great Performers’
What do celebrities do in their downtime? A new project by The New York Times Magazine captures the awards season’s buzziest actors in their element.
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How to Make Your Digital Smartphone Photos Look Old
Retro-photography apps that mimic the appearance of analog film formats make your digital files seem like they’re from another era.
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Braving the Winter to Visit a Valley Shrouded in Snow and Secrets
Compelled by stories he’d heard as a child, the photographer Showkat Nanda traveled to the high Himalayas to see Gurez, a valley long off-limits to most travelers.
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Paul McCartney Talks About His Beatles’ Photos Coming to the Brooklyn Museum
Sixty years after the Beatles appeared live on “Ed Sullivan,” McCartney reflects on his photos capturing those halcyon days. The Brooklyn Museum will exhibit them, and some will be for sale later.
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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs
From onsens in Japan to high-altitude pools in Bolivia, the photographer Greta Rybus shares highlights from her search for thermal waters.
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Dick Waterman, Promoter and Photographer of the Blues, Dies at 88
A “crackpot eccentric Yankee” from Massachusetts, he revived the careers of long-forgotten Southern artists during the blues boom of the 1960s.
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How to Take Better Pictures With a Drone
Simply using a drone doesn’t mean you can shoot excellent aerial photographs.
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Touring Ghana’s Growing Arts Scene
A globalized art market has brought attention to Ghanaian artists like Ibrahim Mahama. On an arts-focused trip to the West African country, a writer finds a thriving scene following its own agenda.