Social Good

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Rural Vacation | Urban Questions

Driving Vermont's rural routes I began to wonder: Why does this town get a brand-new energy-efficient supermarket, and that one a minimart-slash-video store-slash-bank?

Rick Poynor|Essays

David Maisel and the Apocalyptic Sublime

David Maisel’s photographs are visions of the Earth as we have never seen it full of beauty and terror.

Observed|Photos

Perspective-Localized Art

Swiss artist Felice Varini recently installed a new perspective-localized street art piece in Paris.

Rob Walker|Essays

Looking Better, All The Time

Alexandra Horowitz' book On Looking offers a framework, and specific tactics, for smarter seeing.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Nevermind the Masterpiece

What's your "Masterpiece of Everyday New York"? A broken umbrella? A shirtwaist? Discarded gum?

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

A Street Photographer of 19th Century London

Selections from the work of a largely unknown Nineteenth-century photographer named John Thomson.

Observed|Exhibitions

Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age

An exhibition of 118 socially, environmentally, and politically-motivated print posters by an international cadre of artists and designers.

Manisha Sharma|Essays

Gendered Arrangements: India

Girls are considered a burden in Indian society, the issue is popularly known as the “missing girls” phenomenon.

Observed|New Ideas

A Book for Two

A new design for a shared reading experience from designer Soofiya Chaudry.

Observed|Photos

The Documerica Project

DOCUMERICA was a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency from 1972-1977 in order to “capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities and everyday life in the 1970s”.

Alexandra Lange|Essays