Imperfectly Human September 05, 2024
I’ve started to let my oldest son use a Polaroid camera. We want our kids to learn to be mindful of the world they inhabit and to take in moments that become links in the chain of family memory. Photography is a good way to see things in a different ...
TikTok’s Favorite Camera July 12, 2024
In 2015, Josh Sisk, a freelance photographer in Baltimore, picked up a new Fujifilm X100S digital camera for thirteen hundred dollars. He wanted to use it on vacations and road trips, when his full kit of professional cameras and lenses would be too ...
Nobody Wants to Be Real July 10, 2024
At 9:01 p.m. on Monday, my phone buzzed with a notification: “⚠️Time to BeReal.⚠️ 2 min left to capture a BeReal and see what your friends are up to!” I clicked the notification and snapped a photo, which captured images with my front and back iPhone...
‘Dave’ Predicted the Biden Debacle July 09, 2024
Ever since the Great Debate Debacle—and its successor event, the Stephanopoulos Sit-Down That Could Have Gone Better—Joe Biden’s most fervent supporters have chosen one of two tacks. The first is full-on denial: the president is doing fine, they say!...
The Phone, the Girl, the Computer July 08, 2024
The algorithm has our attention. It befuddles and bewilders, surprises and preoccupies, sucking us in like a vacuum, and spitting us out like a blowhole. Dayna Tortorici understood and articulated this better than many of us ever could in her hugely ...
Patrick Stewart Is Ready to Engage July 08, 2024
To my mind, the most informative story about Patrick Stewart—the brilliant Shakespearean actor best known to the world as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men and its sequels—and the development ...