Frame by Frame: Week 10

Welcome back to Frame by Frame — our summer series that invites you to look a little closer. Each Sunday, we send three cropped details from photographs in our collection. Your challenge?…

Frame by Frame, week 9
Frame by Frame: Week 9

Welcome back to Frame by Frame — our summer series that invites you to look a little closer. Each Sunday, we send three cropped details from photographs in our collection. Your challenge?…

Kali, Blue Stripe Face, Palm Springs, CA, 1970, Archival pigment photograph
Seeing Kali: Between Reverie and Reality

In the evolving canon of 20th-century photography, few stories feel as electrifying as the rediscovery of Kali—the artistic persona of California photographer Joan Archibald. Active during the late 1960s and early 1970s in Southern California, Kali produced a vivid and deeply idiosyncratic body of work that remained largely unseen for decades.

Frame by Frame - week 8
Frame by Frame: Week 8

Welcome back to Frame by Frame — our summer series that invites you to look a little closer. Each Sunday, we send three cropped details from photographs in our collection. Your challenge?…

Frame by Frame: Week 7

Welcome back to Frame by Frame — our summer series that invites you to look a little closer. Each Sunday, we send three cropped details from photographs in our collection. Your challenge?…

Arthur Tress, Flood Dream, Ocean City, N.J.
Arthur Tress’s Flood Dream

Among the most memorable images from The Dream Collector is the photograph titled Flood Dream, Ocean City, NJ. It depicts a boy clinging to the roof of a dilapidated home that has washed ashore. The sea has seemingly receded, leaving the structure stranded on a barren, watery plain, while a distant ship looms on the horizon.

Frame by Frame: Week 6

Welcome back to Frame by Frame — our summer series that invites you to look a little closer. Each Sunday, we send three cropped details from photographs in our collection. Your challenge?…

Frame by Frame: Week 5

Welcome back to Frame by Frame — our summer series that invites you to look a little closer. Each Sunday, we send three cropped details from photographs in our collection. Your challenge?…