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Swimming in the Mystery
Philip Perkis "Warwick, NY" (cropped) | 2002
Philip Perkis

Swimming in the Mystery

Excerpts from our oral history with the esteemed photographer Philip Perkis

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Artists

Explore this ongoing register of artists with macular degeneration

Thomas Sgouros

Thomas Sgouros
William Thon

William Thon
Robert Andrew Parker

Robert Andrew Parker
Philip Wilson Steer

Philip Wilson Steer
Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas
Robert Hamilton

Robert Hamilton
David Levine

David Levine
Serge Hollerbach

Serge Hollerbach
Lennart Anderson

Lennart Anderson
Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe
Milford Zornes

Milford Zornes
Andrea Torrice

Andrea Torrice
Recent Features
Carrying On: What Fortifies Artists with Vision Loss

Carrying On: What Fortifies Artists with Vision Loss

Many artists with vision loss tell us that devotion to an ‘impossible task’ inculcates resiliency

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11 Questions for Roni Sherman Ramos

11 Questions for Roni Sherman Ramos

We interview the artist and healthcare activist, whose recent exhibition, "Re-Vision," featured paintings she did after developing macular degeneration

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From the archives: Oliver Sacks’s Insights on Vision and Blindness

From the archives: Oliver Sacks’s Insights on Vision and Blindness

On the occasion of the publication of Sacks’s letters, an article from our archives about his writings on his own vision loss.

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Oral Histories
Swimming in the Mystery

Philip Perkis

Swimming in the Mystery

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Defying Gravity

Tim Prentice

Defying Gravity

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Big Picture Vision

Andrea Torrice

Big Picture Vision

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Blog
Shooting Blind: How a Blind Photographer Takes Pictures Like a Sighted Person

Shooting Blind: How a Blind Photographer Takes Pictures Like a Sighted Person
V&AP Happenings: A new film, a benefit exhibition, studio visits

V&AP Happenings: A new film, a benefit exhibition, studio visits
Alt Text: The Hidden Descriptions that Make Art Accessible

Alt Text: The Hidden Descriptions that Make Art Accessible

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Book Reviews
A book cover whose main visual is the title of the book, The Kite and the String, written in red cursive. The words,

The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control — And Live to Tell the Tale

Alice Mattison
A cover to a book with the title There Plant Eyes, A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness, by M. Leona Godin; the cover is predominantly purple with black text that fades from sharp, high contrast black with the title

There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness

M. Leona Godin
Drawing on the Air: The Kinetic Sculpture of Tim Prentice

Drawing on the Air: The Kinetic Sculpture of Tim Prentice

Tim Prentice, Introductory Essay by Nicholas Fox Weber
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