Photojournalism
Polaroid Portraits: Capturing President Obama's Second Inauguration
We sent photojournalist Tamir Kalifa to the inauguration to ask attendees why they came to the National Mall
January 23, 2013 |
By Tamir Kalifa
The Photographs That Prevented World War III
While researching a book on the Cuban missile crisis, the writer unearthed new spy images that could have changed history
October 2012 |
By Michael Dobbs
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Photograph: The Story Behind the Famous Shot
For 80 years, the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown, and now, thanks to new research, two of them have been identified
September 20, 2012 |
By Megan Gambino
The 21st-Century American Prom
Renowned photographer Mary Ellen Mark invites herself to the dance, capturing the poignant moment teenagers teeter on the edge of adulthood
April 2012 |
By Sloane Crosely
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
From the Archives: A bizarre encounter between the president and the king of rock and roll
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
