Behind the Masks, Portraits of Southern Gothic
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard's staged portraits capture the mysterious, inexpressible ties of family as seen at the International Center of Photography.
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The black-and-white portraits and landscapes by Kenro Izu, taken over the past five years, fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
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By Cristina Rouvalis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 18--The camera does lie.   Or at least it compresses the truth, slimming down the  I-wish-I-looked-thinner masses.
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The photo editors of the new book In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits share their thoughts on what makes a great portrait and offer advice for aspiring photographers. Interview and photo gallery.
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Real and mythological creatures mingle in the strange looking-glass world of two new museum exhibitions.
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Gossip from the film industry down south.
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A show within the show: puffed hair, masked faces and even a light sculpture.
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"The Painted Veil" sets  a few fine actors to work with one of W. Somerset Maugham's  1920s tales of Occidentals confronting the Far East and their  own tangled emotional lives.
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New urban architecture applies its art to self-defense, in the face of fears of attack.
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Consumers are embracing camera features that make them look thinner and more youthful. But what about society's trust in photography? Photos: Camera makeovers
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By Janice Gaston, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--HILTON HEAD, S.C.   Late on a misty day, when the wind sighs through trees lining a deserted road and sets their beards of Spanish moss to fluttering, nature takes center stage here.
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A growing market of magazines that is tapping into an underserved market is also presenting an alternative image of beauty.
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With 80 works ranging from folksy illustrations to precisionist Dutch-inspired landscapes and loose 20th-century abstractions, âBrushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors From the Collectionâ offers a minihistory of American painting.
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A show at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents some odd (but fascinating) examples of serial photography.
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A history of photography books illuminates the history of photography itself.
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Paul Notzold's interactive artwork lets viewers add their uncensored words to giant scenes from a classic horror flick. The results can be monstrously funny.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.