•  Discovery: Almost Friends, Fully Free: Two Men with Down Syndrome and a Life of Their Own
•  Exhibition: The Marvelous Story of a Community Who Built its Own World
•  Book: Moreno Devours the Male Cliché
•  Exhibition: Two Centuries in Focus
•  Archives: Never-Before-Seen Video of Robert Frank
•  Archives: You’re Wrong about Robert Frank

Almost Friends, Fully Free: Two Men with Down Syndrome and a Life of Their Own

On the doorbell, it reads “Gren-Wunsche.” On the second floor of a small Tuscan apartment building, Giulio and Gregor live together, independently. Claudia Deganutti photographed them for two and a half years — not to celebrate an example, but to render the truth of a shared life.

By Jonas Cuénin

The Marvelous Story of a Community Who Built its Own World

In a wooded corner of Belgium, photographer Reynald Halloy spent several years documenting La Baraque (“The Shack”), an alternative housing community where several families chose to live differently, between self-construction and the sharing of daily life. This long-term body of work is now on view in Paris as part of “En famille” (In the Family), a group exhibition curated by Gérald Vidamment.

By Jonas Cuénin

Moreno Devours the Male Cliché

In this month of April, when queer visibility takes center stage, a look at the work of Mitchell Moreno, who transmutes the fantasized imagery of gay dating apps into a gallery of self-portraits that pulverize the codes of masculinity.

By Guénola Pellen

Two Centuries in Focus

Atlas Gallery presents “Legacy of Light: 200 Years of Photography,” an exhibition marking two centuries since the first permanent photograph.

By Gaia Squarci

You’re Wrong about Robert Frank

If you thought the master photographer was cantankerous and curmudgeonly, you haven’t seen his softer side.

By Bill Shapiro