Photography
The Colorado River Runs Dry
Dams, irrigation and now climate change have drastically reduced the once-mighty river. Is it a sign of things to come?
October 2010 |
By Sarah Zielinski
Looking at the World's Tattoos
Photographer Chris Rainier travels the globe in search of tattoos and other examples of the urge to embellish our skin
October 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
An Earth Day Icon, Unmasked
The 1970 photograph became an instant environmental classic, but its subject has remained nameless until now
August 2010 |
By Timothy Dumas
For Wildebeests, Danger Ahead
Africa's wildebeest migration pits a million thundering animals against a gantlet of perils, even—some experts fear—climate change
May 2010 |
By Robert M. Poole
A 160-Year-Old Photographic Mystery
In 1851, Levi Hill claimed he invented color photography. Was he a genius or a fraud?
April 2010 |
By Amanda Bensen
Lewis Carroll's Shifting Reputation
Why has popular opinion of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland undergone such a dramatic reversal?
April 2010 |
By Jenny Woolf
Home is Where the Kitchen Is
Photographer Dona Schwartz viewed her family through her camera lens in the hub of their household: the kitchen
April 01, 2010 |
By Amanda Bensen
Capturing Appalachia's "Mountain People"
Shelby Lee Adams' 1990 photograph of life in the eastern Kentucky mountains captured a poignant tradition
March 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Mustang Mystique
Descended from animals brought by Spanish conquistadors centuries ago, wild horses roam the West. But are they running out of room?
March 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
Q and A: Irish Artist John Gerrard
Artist John Gerrard uses 360-degree photography and 3-D gaming software to create a virtual reality
February 2010 |
By Jeff Campagna
Out of the Guatemalan Gang Culture, an Artist
Carlos Perez could have been an artist or a gangster. Photographer Donna DeCesare helped him choose
February 2010 |
By Patti McCracken
Phineas Gage: Neuroscience's Most Famous Patient
An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history's most famous brain-injury survivor
January 2010 |
By Steve Twomey
Man Ray’s Signature Work
Artist Man Ray mischievously scribbled his name in a famous photograph, but it took decades for the gesture to be discovered
November 10, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
A Photo-journalist's Remembrance of Vietnam
The death of Hugh Van Es, whose photograph captured the Vietnam War's end, launched a "reunion" of those who covered the conflict
November 2009 |
By David Lamb
Ansel Adams in Color
As a new book shows, not everything in the photographer's philosophy was black and white
November 2009 |
By Richard B. Woodward
John Brown's Famous Photograph
An 1840s image captures an extremist's fervor
September 21, 2009 |
By Owen Edwards
Escaping the Iron Curtain
Photographer Sean Kernan followed Polish immigrants Andrej and Alec Bozek from an Austrian refugee camp to Texas
September 2009 |
By Dewitt Sage
A Woodstock Moment – 40 Years Later
On a whim, a young duo went to the legendary festival only to be captured in a memorable image by photographer Burk Uzzle
August 2009 |
By Timothy Dumas
The Hidden World of Ants
A new photo exhibit featuring the work of biologist Mark Moffett reminds us that we still live in an age of discovery
July 2009 |
By Amanda Bensen
