MoMA’s Human Focus

In its latest survey of new photography, the museum examines being in the world—with some powerful results.

New York

Photographs in contemporary art exhibitions these days are as likely to be culled from the internet as they are to be taken with a camera by the artists themselves.

This is not a new method for making art. In the 1970s, Stephen Shore and others filled galleries and books with images rifled from magazines and archives. What’s changed...