“Our houses are our biographies, the stories of our defeats and victories,” wrote Mary Heaton Vorse in Time and the Town, her memoir of early 20th-century life in Provincetown. Vorse’s […]
Photography
PHOTOGRAPHY
A Downtown State of Mind
Stephen Aiken’s 'Artists in Residence' resurrects a long-vanished New York
When Stephen Aiken arrived in New York in 1973, the deteriorating, crime-ridden city was practically bankrupt and nearing one of the lowest points in its history, one still remembered for […]
LOCALS
Jim Zimmerman Connects Provincetown’s Past With Its Present
PAAM’s resident jack-of-all-trades is a fountain of institutional and community knowledge
Jim Zimmerman — camera around his neck — greeted me in the lobby of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and led us through the museum’s expansive galleries with the […]
BOOKS
Barbara Bosworth Keeps an Eye on The Sea
Finding beauty reflected in texts and objects
One of Barbara Bosworth’s most prized possessions is a collection of bird eggs she inherited from her great-grandfather, who collected them in the wild, blew out their interiors, and saved […]
IN THE STUDIO
Cole Barash’s Photographic Adventures, Near and Far
Exploring subcultures, communities, and the relationship between humans and the natural world
WELLFLEET — Last April, Cole Barash spent three days on the back shore making photographs to accompany a Thoreau-inspired essay by Eileen Myles called A Walk on Cape Cod. During […]
IMAGE AND MEMORY
Life in the Dunes Through Jane Paradise’s Eyes
The photographer’s story of Provincetown’s dune shacks in pictures and the words of those who love them
The 19 dune shacks in the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District of the Cape Cod National Seashore might be the most famous Outer Cape landmarks that many people have never […]
VISIONS
Seeing the Invisible
Two photographers reveal hidden realms of light
Photography usually depicts what we see. Sometimes, it also shows us what we can’t. There are hidden realms on either end of the spectrum of light we perceive when we […]
HOT SHOTS
Bobby Miller’s Decisive Moments
45 years of a fabulous life behind the lens, on view at AMP Gallery
It happened one evening at Studio 54: Halston entered the legendary nightclub and was about to check his coat and fur hat. Ten feet away, Bobby Miller spotted his prey […]
MARSH MELLOW
In View this Week
PHOTOGRAPHY
Peter Hujar Reveals the Truth Behind the Joke
A small show of the late photographer’s work exposes the valences of camp and drag
In the 1960s and ’70s, before they were a tragedy, gay men were a joke. Because gay men are tastemakers and cultural aristocrats, the joke was a good one — […]
PANDEMIC LOGBOOK
The Webbs Are Navigating Waves of Change
A collaborative photography book charts one couple’s pandemic experience
“I was looking out the window, waiting for words that did not come,” says Rebecca Norris Webb of sequestering herself in Wellfleet early in the pandemic. Outside, her husband, Alex, […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rowland Scherman Focused on Hope, Not Darkness
Talking his way into a job as the first Peace Corps photographer
Ukraine, Covid, the GOP, the radical right’s takedown of the Supreme Court — take your pick, or feel free to add your own favorite bogeyman that keeps you up nights. […]
NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
At the Beech
The Beech Forest Trail off Race Point Road in the Province Lands of the Cape Cod National Seashore beckons spring birdwatchers and seekers of peace. (Photo by Agata Storer)
ARTISTS
Horror Movie Imagery Meets Indigenous Identity
Jeremy Dennis’s Rise series says, ‘We’re still here’
“Noam Chomsky made the comparison that zombies are a reflection of fear and desperation, and that we in the United States try to make something that we’re oppressing into something […]
EXHIBITIONS
Joel Meyerowitz Comes Home
A show of faces and places from a past Provincetown
When Joel Meyerowitz started taking photographs of the Outer Cape in 1976, it was a break from the 35mm point-and-shoot work he was doing on the streets of New York. […]
