Photojournalism

"I never thought anything would come of them," John Rich says of the some 1,000 personal photographs that he made as a reporter during the war.

One Man's Korean War

John Rich's color photographs, seen for the first time after more than half a century, offer a vivid glimpse of the "forgotten" conflict

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Trunk Show

Even in 1992, Steve McCurry says, Kabul was full of surprises

Cherry Orchard, 1965: "She was playful with the camera," the photographer says.

Behind the Veil

Photographer Alen MacWeeney wanted to see Ireland's Travellers as they were

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The Deciding Moment

A newly published scrapbook of Henri Cartier-Bresson's early photographs is changing some notions about how he worked

At a time when women were defined by their husbands and judged by the quality of their housework, Margaret Bourke-White set the standard for photojournalism and expanded the possibilities of being female. (Self-Portrait, 1943, Margaret Bourke-White, 19 1/8" x 15 1/4" Vintage gelatin silver print from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection)

A Life Less Ordinary

One of Life magazine's original four photographers, Margaret Bourke-White snapped shots around the world

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Operatic Entrance

As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp

Peter Beard at Hog Ranch in 2014 feeding giraffes

Beard's Eye View

When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame

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An Interview with Peter van Agtmael, Photographer for "Return to the Marsh"

Van Agtmael spoke with Ben Block by phone from the American base Fort Apache in Adhamiyah, outside Baghdad

"Anaemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill" is what Hine wrote.

Through the Mill

Because of a Lewis Hine photograph, Addie Card became the poster child of child labor. But what became of Addie Card?

Coal Miner's Daughter

"I'm 15. I'm getting married. My mother doesn't want me to get married." But that's just the beginning of the story

16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama

Fearing the Worst

A church is bombed. A daughter is missing. A rediscovered photograph recalls one of the most heart-wrenching episodes of the civil rights era

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The Power of Prayer

A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years

Chris Hondros, photographer for Getty Images News Services, captured this image of Joseph Duo and became a defining image of Liberia's protracted strife.

A Soldier's Story

Photojournalist Chris Hondros, recently killed in Libya, discussed his work in war-torn Liberia with Smithsonian in 2006

A Night at the Opera

Weegee's wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce

The great Lakota chief Red Cloud at 51, in an 1872 portrait by Alexander Gardner

Chief Lobbyist

He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers

James Meredith, center, is escorted by federal marshals on his first day of class at the University of Mississippi.

Down In Mississippi

The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement

Alan Grant photographed Jayne Mansfield in 1957 in her Hollywood swimming pool, among hot-water bottles in her image, which now fetch hundreds of dollars each on Internet auction sites. "I could have been a multimillionare [if I'd saved some]," jokes Grant.

Slices of Life

From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how

Bubley (c. 1960) made wartime photos in Washington, D.C. (1943) on her own.

Private Eye

Noted for her sensitive photojournalism in postwar magazines, Esther Bubley is back in vogue

The stars aligned: Cassius Clay (not yet Muhammad Ali) and the Beatles (in Miami Beach in 1964) would soon ride a tsunami of fame.

Winner by a Decision

When Sonny Liston decided not to meet the Beatles 40 years ago, photographer Harry Benson pulled a switcheroo

Vendors hawking books and magazines say they now openly offer once-banned literature, including religious texts and posters and political tracts.

Baghdad Beyond the Headlines

From gleeful schoolkids to a literary scholar who loves Humphrey Bogart, a photographer captures a reawakening but still wary city

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