Morning In America
Space shuttle-watchers took their place in the sun, not yet awakened to the true risks of exploring the heavens.
August 2006 |
By Henry Allen
Last Hurrah
Everyone wanted to see the Babe the day they retired his number; photographer Nat Fein saw the story.
July 2006 |
By Leigh Montville
Time and Again
In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America
June 2006 |
By Stephen G. Bloom
Grab a Drink With Hollywood's Stars
To photographer Slim Aarons, the biggest stars were auld acquaintances
January 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Airborne Archaeology
The view from above can yield insights on the ground
December 2005 |
By Andrew Curry
Fashion Faux Paw
Richard Avedon's photograph of a beauty and the beasts is marred, he believed, by one failing
October 2005 |
By Owen Edwards
Jazz Man
Louis Armstrong before he was Satchmo? A youthful Ella? For photographs of musicians great or obscure, just about everyone turns to Frank Driggs
September 2005 |
By Jerry Adler
Paris, Mon Amour
For photographer Robert Doisneau, finding an openly affectionate couple in the City of Light was as easy as falling in love
July 2005 |
By Rudolph Chelminski
Model Family
Sally Mann's unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about
May 2005 |
By Molly Roberts
The Old Ballgames
Civil rights chronicler Ernest Withers also photographed the glories of black baseball, including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson
April 2005 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Savoring Pie Town
Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life
February 2005 |
By Paul Hendrickson
Freeze Frame
Beginning in the 1880s, amateur photographer Wilson A. Bentley revealed the hidden structure of falling flakes
January 2005 |
By Owen Edwards
Subway Spy
Walker Evans' underground-breaking photographs resurface for the centennial of New York City's rapid transit system
November 2004 |
By Terence Monmaney
When the Shooting Started
A century and a half ago, Britain's Roger Fenton pioneered the art of war photography
October 2004 |
By Vicki Goldberg
Man of Action
An eccentric photographer and a racehorse made history one day in 1878. The world would never look the same
September 2004 |
By Victoria Olsen
Fallen Star
When Mary Decker crashed to the ground at the Los Angeles Olympics 20 years ago this month, a young photographer was there to catch the anguish
August 2004 |
By Nadira A. Hira
Dazzle by the Dozen
A 1947 portrait by the renowned Irving Penn broke the fashion mold and celebrated an elegance all too rare today
July 2004 |
By Owen Edwards
Off the Beaten Track
During a civil rights march in 1965, photographer Bruce Davidson left the highway to focus on a single Alabama sharecropper and her nine children
June 2004 |
By Paul Maliszewski
A Fresh Look at Diane Arbus
A new retrospective featuring an unprecedented number of the troubled photographer's images makes the case for her innovative artistry
May 2004 |
By Tessa DeCarlo
Tunnel Visionary
Intrepid explorer Julia Solis finds beauty in the ruins of derelict urban structures
April 2004 |
By Stephen P. Williams
