Photography
Flowers Writ Large
With his Botanica Magnifica, podiatrist-turned-photographer Jonathan Singer captures flowers on the grandest of scales
May 21, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Herman Leonard’s Eye for Jazz
In the 1940s and 50s, photographer Herman Leonard captured icons of the jazz world, including Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington
May 07, 2009 |
By Lucinda Moore
Dancing for Mao
A photograph of a 5-year-old girl made her famous in China—and haunted the man who took it
May 2009 |
By Jennifer Lin
Edward Steichen: In Vogue
A painter by training, Edward Steichen changed fashion photography forever
May 2009 |
By Owen Edwards
Celebrity Portraitist Gerard Malanga
An associate of Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga reflects on his subjects and his career as a photographer
April 14, 2009 |
By Jeff Campagna
Eudora Welty as Photographer
Photographs by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Eudora Welty display the empathy that would later infuse her fiction
April 2009 |
By T.A. Frail
Cindy Sherman: Monument Valley Girl
The artist's self portrait plays with our notions of an archetypal West
March 2009 |
By Victoria Olsen
Family of Man's Special Delivery
It took three generations to produce Wayne F. Miller's photograph of his newborn son
February 2009 |
By Owen Edwards
Beyond the Photos with Neal Slavin
Photographer Neal Slavin discusses his group portraits and his career as a whole
January 02, 2009 |
By Smithsonian.com
The More the Merrier
Photographer Neal Slavin captures the night some Santas bent the rules
January 2009 |
By David Zax
Africa on the Fly
Dangling from a paraglider with a propeller on his back, photographer George Steinmetz gets a new perspective on Africa
January 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Lasting Impact of a Civil Rights Icon's Murder
One of three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 was James Chaney. His younger brother would never be the same
December 2008 |
By Hank Klibanoff
From Castro to Warhol to Mother Teresa, He Photographed Them All
Yousuf Karsh took a singular approach to fame and the famous
December 2008 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Robert Frank’s Curious Perspective
In his book The Americans, Robert Frank changed photography. Fifty years on, it still unsettles
November 2008 |
By Richard B. Woodward
One Man's Korean War
John Rich's color photographs, seen for the first time after more than half a century, offer a vivid glimpse of the "forgotten" conflict
November 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker
Four for a Quarter
Photographer Nakki Goranin shows how the once ubiquitous photobooth captured the many faces of 20th-century America
September 2008 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Richard Misrach's Ominous Beach Photographs
A new exhibition of oversized photographs by Richard Misrach invites viewers to have fun in the sun. Or does it?
August 2008 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
About Carleton Watkins
On the life and career of the 19th-century American landscape photographer who captured Yosemite in stereo
July 2008 |
By Bruce Hathaway
