Photographers

The Thousand-Yard Stare

December 2001

Finding the Eye of the Whirlpool

Adventure photographer Peter McBride tells what it was like to shoot whirlpools while hanging from a ship’s radio antenna.

July 31, 2001

Preacher on the Go

Tiny Smith Island has three churches but only one pastor, who gets around by boat and Golf Cart

April 30, 2001

Portraits of Her People

Historian, photographer and Macarthur “genius,” Deborah Willis documents the black experience

December 2000

What is Bugging Barbara Norfleet?

A photographer’s imaginary insect world mirrors our own, with beetles flying kites and six-legged warriors on the march

April 1, 1999

Images of the Spirit: The Evocative Vision of Graciela Iturbide

The Mexican photographer blends history, lyricism and portraiture to record cultures in transition

May 31, 1998

The AP Looks Back

150 Years of Capturing the Moment

May 1998

The Artful Lens of Ansel Adams

January 1998

The Imprint of Latino Photographers

September 1997

A Traveling Exhibition On Women Photographers Doesn’t Skirt the Issue

March 1997

The Fiery Nadar Took Paris’ Pulse

A self-styled bohemian of the mid-19th century, the young photographer captured the spirit of the time in portraits now on exhibit at the Met

May 1995

Keeping Up With Our Freelancers in the Field

Since this magazine started sending writers and photographers all over the world back in 1970, they’ve had more adventures than most of us can dream up

April 1995