Photojournalists
The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing
Photographer A.F. Van Order captured the thrills and spills of board-track motorcycle racing in the 1910s
April 2011 |
By David Schonauer
Capturing Warsaw at the Dawn of World War II
As German bombs began falling on Poland in 1939, an American photographer made a fateful decision
November 2010 |
By Mike Edwards
Photographing Baltimore's Working Class
Baltimore's A. Aubrey Bodine cast a romantic light on the city's dockworkers in painterly photographs
April 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
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
It's in the Bag
Sports Illustrated photographer Neil Leifer hit a grand slam when he set out to capture a double play on film
July 2008 |
By Owen Edwards
Betty Ford's Tabled Resolution
Betty Ford had a what-the-hell moment—and an accomplice in photographer David Hume Kennerly
June 2008 |
By William Booth
Comrades and Arms
When Fidel Castro asked for a show of hands in support of his new policies, an American journalist captured the response
April 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Trunk Show
Even in 1992, Steve McCurry says, Kabul was full of surprises
November 2007 |
By Robert M. Poole
"It Felt Like a Real Discovery"
Six decades after the death of an unheralded New York City municipal photographer, a researcher stumbles upon his forgotten negatives
September 2007 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Reboot
A photojournalist enchanted by computers takes another look at the soul of some old machines
July 2007 |
By Katy June-Friesen
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
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
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
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
Subway Spy
Walker Evans' underground-breaking photographs resurface for the centennial of New York City's rapid transit system
November 2004 |
By Terence Monmaney
