Remembering Peter Beard, The King of Old Montauk
The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.
Photographer
Every Inch of Earth
The author and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Then Kamaran was captured by ISIS.
Shutter Madness
On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.
All-American Subversive
On the photographer Catherine Opie who has “made a study of the freeways of Los Angeles, lesbian families, surfers, Tea Party gatherings, America’s national parks, the houses of Beverly Hills, teen-age football players, the personal effects of Elizabeth Taylor, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Boy Scouts, her friends, mini-malls, and tree stumps.”
The Cost of Diane Arbus’s Life on the Edge
“The main characteristic of Diane was courage.”
Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?
A profile of the photographer, who has been accused by several models of sexual abuse.
Michael Light in Conversation with Lawrence Weschler
How to photograph Los Angeles from a helicopter.
African Dreamer
The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.
