Reviewing Deepa Mehta's Water.

For many critics, photography has become a duplicitous force to be defanged rather than an experience to embrace.

The Academy’s voters rejected Brokeback Mountain, but the film marks an important moment in Hollywood history.

Heinrich Jöst’s photographs of the Holocaust dwell in what Jean Améry called “the waiting room of death.”

The photographer wanted to show what freedom, and the people who made it, looked like.

Walt Kelly’s Pogo.

Do we approach the photograph as spectators, or as citizens of the world?

India’s cultural commissars worship "Indianness" instead of art.

A close look at post-Soviet commercial advertising reveals that market norms never really took hold—even among capitalists.

Can photographers, unlike writers, leave their native land with impunity?

His great achievement was to bring some of the qualities of painting into poetry.

Geoffrey Movius speaks with Susan Sontag about photography, writing, and memory.