Married, With Camera
Portraitist Emmet Gowin's most enduring subject is his wife
December 2007 |
By David Zax
In Living Color
An obscure photographic process unveiled 100 years ago opens a fresh window on the past
September 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
Remembering Jack Kerouac
A friend of the author of "On the Road," published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters
September 2007 |
By Joyce Johnson
The Real Frida Kahlo
A new exhibition offers insights into the Mexican painter's private life
September 01, 2007 |
By Julia Kaganskiy
Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway
His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever
August 2007 |
By Valerie Hemingway
Hopper
Mystery. Longing. A whole new way of seeing. A stunning retrospective reminds us why the enigmatic American artist retains his power
July 2007 |
By Avis Berman
The Flight Stuff
Amelia Earhart brought her own special style—even to her outerwear
July 2007 |
By Owen Edwards
A Brief History of the Honus Wagner Baseball Card
From cigarette pack insert to multi-million-dollar treasure
May 01, 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
Houdini Revealed
Some 80 years after his death, Harry Houdini is back in the public spotlight. This photo essay sheds light on the escape artist's life
April 01, 2007 |
By Whitney Dangerfield
Comic Phyllis Diller's Cabinet Keeps the Jokes Coming
The stand up comic's archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines
March 2007 |
By Owen Edwards
Living With Geese
Novelist and gozzard Paul Theroux ruminates about avian misconceptions, anthropomorphism and March of the Penguins as "a travesty of science"
December 2006 |
By Paul Theroux
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
David Hockney and Friends
Though the artist doesn't think of himself as a painter of portraits, a new exhibition makes the case that they are key to his work.
August 2006 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Morning In America
Space shuttle-watchers took their place in the sun, not yet awakened to the true risks of exploring the heavens.
August 2006 |
By Henry Allen
Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The author behind the authoritative retelling of the 1911 fire describes how he researched the tragedy that killed 146 people
August 2006 |
By David von Drehle
Wyeth's World
In the wake of his death, controversy still surrounds painter Andrew Wyeth's stature as a major American artist
June 2006 |
By Henry Adams
