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  OnlyFans Creators Bare All

  The New Yorker - Jennifer Wilson

  Evan Lamicella, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Vietnamese war refugee, calls himself “your fav Wasian.” He believes that there aren’t enough Asian male sex symbols in pop culture and sees his OnlyFans work as part of the change. Evan, who lives near Seattle, wants to pursue acting. “My manager …

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  A Sprawling Monument to How Things Get Made

  The New Yorker - Eren Orbey

  Mark Power’s “Fashion” lavishes formal attention on industrial machinery and, by extension, on the human effort behind it. In 1997, Tony Blair’s newly elected Labour government announced plans to build the Millennium Dome on a derelict former wasteland in East London. The British photographer Mark …

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  The New Yorker

  

  The Long Road to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

  The New Yorker - Rebecca Mead

  In Paul Graham’s book “A1: The Great North Road,” life along a major British thoroughfare reveals fissures in the nation’s identity. The first image in Paul Graham’s book “A1: The Great North Road,” which was originally published in 1983 and is being reissued this month by Mack, shows two men in …

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  How City Kids Used to Play on the Streets of New York

  The New Yorker - Naaman Zhou

  A retrospective of Martha Cooper’s work shows the ramshackle toys and improvised games from a bygone era of growing up. In the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties, photographers for the New York Post were sent scuttling around the city, loaded down with rolls of film, to look for a lot of …

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  The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa

  The New Yorker - Hilton Als

  The photographer doesn’t sentimentalize her subjects; she pays attention to them. It’s an understatement to say that we live in a world that is at least partially defined by a surfeit of images, and that the photographs we like, or remember, are those we take ourselves. Selfies or photos documenting …

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  How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition

  The New Yorker - Taran Dugal

  The photographer, who died last month, at the age of eighty-three, spent his life chronicling the highs and lows of the country’s post-colonial evolution. In the dark, predawn hours of December 3, 1984, a dense cloud of poisonous gas leaked from a pesticide plant and, borne on a soft, northern wind, …