Dominique Nabokov

Dominique Nabokov is a French photographer who lives in New York.

Gwen Callec and Michael Schäfer, photographer, Prenzlauer Berg, 2014

Living Room Portraits

In addition to portraiture and reportage, Dominique Nabokov has captured cultural figures by photographing not the people themselves, but their living rooms.

March 2, 2018

Garry Winogrand’s Lonely America

Garry Winogrand was one of the last great street photojournalists. His photographs of the street, the suburbs, airports, the rodeo—they show a piece of American life where there’s no desire to be aesthetic, to be lovely: he’s just there, he records.

August 14, 2014

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Genius at Work

In this audio slide show, photographer Dominique Nabokov talks about the MoMA’s ambitious new exhibition and the ways in which Cartier-Bresson’s daily works reveal his genius.

April 28, 2010

Dominique Nabokov on Robert Frank’s Americans

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Frank’s The Americans, the exhibition “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through January 3, 2010. Dominique Nabokov—whose own photographs appear regularly in The New York Review—saw the exhibition both in New York and in Washington, where it originated at the National Gallery of Art. Recently, she stopped by the office to talk about why Frank’s photographs are not only still relevant but also a “miraculous” body of work.

December 24, 2009

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