Erin O’Keefe is a photographer of an interesting breed: she uses her tools to challenge our understanding of reality––even to trick us––rather than to expose it.

Anna Atkins was one of the first photographers. Ever. The influence of her pioneering work with the newly invented cyanotype endures today in two exhibitions on view at the New York Public Library.

Less than half finds out what it was like to be a bad ass girl in the 90s thanks to Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures: 1997-2002.