Photojournalism
The Doomed South Pole Voyage's Remaining Photographs
A 1912 photograph proves explorer Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole—but wasn't the first
January 2012 |
By Victoria Olsen
At Suffolk Downs, an Unintended Spectator
Photographer Henry Carfagna was in the perfect position to catch the moment when a horse race took a bizarre turn
May 2011 |
By Robert Temple
The Newsroom Rush of Old
Newsrooms may look different today, but their need for speed never wavers
March 2011 |
By Michael Shapiro
When Elvis Met Nixon
Forty years ago, an Oval Office photograph captured the bizarre encounter between the king of rock and roll and the president
December 2010 |
By Peter Carlson
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
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
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
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
Up in Arms Over a Co-Ed Plebe Summer
The first women to attend the Naval Academy became seniors in 1979. Photographer Lucian Perkins was there as the old order changed
July 2009 |
By Amanda Bensen
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
Trunk Show
Even in 1992, Steve McCurry says, Kabul was full of surprises
November 2007 |
By Robert M. Poole
Behind the Veil
Photographer Alen MacWeeney wanted to see Ireland's Travellers as they were
July 2007 |
By David Zax
The Deciding Moment
A newly published scrapbook of Henri Cartier-Bresson's early photographs is changing some notions about how he worked
April 2007 |
By Sarah Boxer
Operatic Entrance
As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp
March 2007 |
By David J. Marcou
A Life Less Ordinary
One of Life magazine's original four photographers, Margaret Bourke-White snapped shots around the world
March 01, 2007 |
By Dina Modianot-Fox
Beard's Eye View
When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame
December 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Through the Mill
Because of a Lewis Hine photograph, Addie Card became the poster child of child labor. But what became of Addie Card?
September 2006 |
By Elizabeth Winthrop
Coal Miner's Daughter
"I'm 15. I'm getting married. My mother doesn't want me to get married." But that's just the beginning of the story.
June 2006 |
By Maryalice Yakutchik
