Space shuttle-watchers took their place in the sun, not yet awakened to the true risks of exploring the heavens.
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In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph everyone in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he’s doing it again, creating a portrait of heartland America
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Grab a Drink With Hollywood’s Stars
To photographer Slim Aarons, the biggest stars were auld acquaintances
Smithsonian gets a new publisher
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The view from above can yield insights on the ground
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Richard Avedon’s photograph of a beauty and the beasts is marred, he believed, by one failing
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Louis Armstrong before he was Satchmo? A youthful Ella? For photographs of musicians great or obscure, just about everyone turns to Frank Driggs
For photographer Robert Doisneau, finding an openly affectionate couple in the City of Light was as easy as falling in love
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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
An eccentric photographer and a racehorse made history one day in 1878. The world would never look the same
A 1947 portrait by the renowned Irving Penn broke the fashion mold and celebrated an elegance all too rare today
Photographer Jack Pashkovsky disarmed Hollywood’s royalty with his ardor and persistence
Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment
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From Triton’s active geysers to the Sun’s seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before
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September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop
Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the “continuity of life in the face of disaster”
Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners
Announcing our first-ever photo contest
A new exhibition reconsiders the industrial photographs of Margaret Bourke-White’s early, “rapturous” period
Our photographic collections showcase the world from the seafloor to the stars above
Learning to love complexity
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