Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.

In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.

A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.

The story behind an Instagram sensation is the story of a changing coastal Maine.

Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.

A profile of photographer William Christenberry.

An argument on the meaning of Cubism settled.

On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.

On William Eggleston’s The Red Ceiling and an unsolved murder.

Steidl, who is sixty-six, is known for fanatical attention to detail, for superlative craftsmanship, and for embracing the best that technology has to offer. "He is so much better than anyone,” William Eggleston, the American color photographer, told me, when I met him recently in New York. Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of “The Democratic Forest,” the artist’s monumental 1989 work. Eggleston passed his hand through the air, in a stroking gesture. “Feel the pages of the books,” he said. “The ink is in relief. It is that thick.”

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 writer investigates her late husband Ted Streshinsky, whose photographs documented the 1960s, and J. Edgar Hoover’s attempts to label him a Soviet spy.

“The main characteristic of Diane was courage.”

A profile of photographer Bill Cunningham.

Chris Earnshaw began taking photographs of Washington, D.C. more than 40 years ago. By the time he paid a visit to a museum to tout his work, he had in his possession—in plastic bags and filing drawers—3,000 Polaroids of a city long gone.

A photographer captured the moment when a race organizer confronted a woman who’d snuck into the race.

Mark Hogancamp nearly died after being jumped by five men in 2000. After waking from a coma with no memories, he developed an extraordinary coping device: he built a miniature town in his garden where he gets his revenge.

Practicing photography in Switzerland.

A profile of photographer Robert Frank in his 90th year.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

A Japanese photographer examines the scene of the St. Valentine's Day massacre; a story from the author of The Black Hour.

"Was it the worst I’d seen? I turned to the camera, viewing the scene anew. Four men lay in a row, as though they had been tucked into a large bed. One slept at their feet, face down. The last hunched on his knees at a round-backed wooden chair. Blood ran toward the center of the room. Later that day when I returned to the newsroom, I would release the image from the machine in my hands, like a dragon from a cage. The city would see the blood, black, and no one would remember that someone—call him Togo or call him Fujita, the name will not be printed—had stood in the dust of men’s bones to face the dragon so that they did not have to."

How the famed war photographer covered D-Day.

A profile of photographer Ryan McGinley.

Photographer Trevor Paglen makes art out of government secrets.

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