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After a year in graduate school in New York City, Eudora Welty returned to her native Mississippi and began taking pictures (Home by Dark).

Eudora Welty as Photographer

Photographs by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Eudora Welty display the empathy that would later infuse her fiction

Sherman has said she "didn't want to compete with the landscape," but she cleared space for a new Western woman.

Cindy Sherman: Monument Valley Girl

The artist’s self portrait plays with our notions of an archetypal West

Newborn David B. Miller had the company of his mother (covered by sheets), grandfather (masked) and photographer father.

Family of Man’s Special Delivery

It took three generations to produce Wayne F. Miller’s photograph of his newborn son

Author of Karsh Reality, Mathew Gurewitsch.

Matthew Gurewitsch on “Karsh Reality”

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More With Richard Misrach

The Photographer explains how a series of beach pictures were inspired by the events of September 11

Richard Misrach, Untitled 1132-04, 2004-Misrach says he began to notice how “people group up and leave a sort of comfortable space around them—something that maybe would only be revealed when you stand back to see it.”

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?

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Gaga Over a Gargoyle

From Margaret Bourke-White to Annie Leibovitz, photographers have scaled dizzying heights to frame the perfect prop

"I always thought of Bill as like us," says Karen Chatham (left), "until years later, when I realized that he was famous."

They Needed to Talk

And family friend William Eggleston, his camera at his side, felt compelled to shoot

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Animal Magnetism

Gregory Colbert’s haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures

Kertész (in his 80s, c. 1975) made his name in Paris (Under the Eiffel Tower, 1929).

Hungarian Rhapsody

In a 70-year career that began in Budapest, André Kertész pioneered modern photography, as a new exhibition makes clear

Newport, 1964: Waterman says he photographed Mississippi John Hurt (1893-1966), left, and Skip James (1902-1969) for posterity.

Focus on the Blues

Richard Waterman’s never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best

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Nothing but the Struth

A new exhibition showcases the German photographer’s eye for art

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Manhattan Bound

A new book of photographs by octogenarian Helen Levitt charts her amused view of an ever-evolving New York

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Unfazed by All the Buzz

The portrait that took the photographic world by swarm

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Stieglitz in Focus

A new exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art tracks the development of seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz

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