Photography Photo Exhibition Shines a Different Light on Wissahickon Valley Park Infrared film photographer Dale McCarthy captures a familiar place in an otherworldly way
City Life Journalism? To Some Extent. Nostalgia? If You Think So. Art? Well, Sure. History? Of a Certain Sort. Astonishing? Absolutely. In our media-saturated era, Hidden City’s big, new book project, PHILADELPHIA IN COLOR 1950-1990, may just transform how you think about the city.
Photography Why We Are Making the First-Ever Color Photographic History of Philadelphia Here is why the world needs “PHILADELPHIA IN COLOR, 1950-1990.” Peter Woodall explains the motivation behind Hidden City’s big new book project
Preservation Documenting Building Ghosts and the Stories They Contain Molly Lester and Michael Bixler uncover an intimate history of Philadelphia with their new book, “Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City”
Photography Photographer Captures Heaven on Earth at Devil’s Pool In her new book, Sarah Kaufman distills an endless summer in the Wissahickon
Photography Between Us and Catastrophe: People on the Front Lines of COVID-19 In this photo essay Kyle Cassidy introduces us to the people who are standing between their neighbors and the global pandemic, using their bodies, minds, and labor as shields
Architecture Under Construction: Charles Library at Temple University Something Snøhetta this ways comes. Michael Bixler takes us to the quad at Temple University where its new library is currently taking shape
History From Click To Clink: A History Of Mug Shots In The Quaker City Harry K. gives us the backstory of Philadelphia’s Rogues’ Gallery, which has been tracking criminals in photographic form since the 1860s
