Now through Dec. 30 at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, a series of photos shines a light on the America that author and social critic James Baldwin was responding to with his words. “Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America” tracks the social unrest that drove his writing and reflect turbulent times past and present.

Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”

With a new multimedia website, landscape architecture professor Anne Whiston Spirn makes a secret garden public and explores how ideas create form.

System can apply a range of styles in real-time, so that the viewfinder displays the enhanced image.

MIT researcher helps scientists and engineers hone their visual imagery.

CSAIL PhD student creates immersive media to help users understand each other’s backgrounds and feelings.

New technique greatly reduces the number of exposures necessary for “lensless imaging.”

Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa creates immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality to humanize soldiers in global conflicts.

Winners of MISTI’s annual video contest announced.