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Gallery Gives Movie Star Marlene Dietrich The Big-Picture Treatment
One of the most glamorous creatures ever to grace the silver screen is back in pictures at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. A dazzling new exhibition features dozens of photographs of...
View ArticleWhere Dead Smartphones Go, Kumail Nanjiani, Fleeing to Greece, A Wild...
Sue Williams and Hilary Klotz Steinman discuss their documentary, “Death by Design: The Dirty Secret of Our Digital Addiction." Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, writer Emily V. Gordon...
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A Forgotten Camera Reveals Hidden Treasure from History
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. In our modern world, cameras are everywhere, but take a trip back to the not-so-distant past, and you'll see a reality that is very...
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How a Wildlife Photographer Gets Up Close With His Dangerous Subjects
Photographer Michael Nichols and author/editor Melissa Harris join us to discuss their book A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols. Nichols has spent decades photographing...
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Video: Japan's 'Purikura' Photo Booths Offer Snapchat-Like Filters
Japanese purikura photo booths, which produce selfies that you can decorate and print out, predate Snapchat filters by at least a decade. At about $3.50 a pop, they are still attracting hordes of Tokyo...
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Does A Newly Discovered Photo Show Amelia Earhart Survived A Crash Landing?
It has been 80 years since Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to become the first female pilot to fly around the world, and her 1937 disappearance has become one of the great mysteries of our...
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The Epic 43,000 Mile Road Trip to Every National Park
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.If you're looking to crank your summer travel plans up a notch, look no further that your local national park.Stefanie Payne, a communication...
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'Stains On The Sidewalk': Photographer Remembers Year Of Murders In Baltimore
In American cities, the murder rate has kept rising over the last couple of years. One of the most violent cities in the U.S. is Baltimore.That's where 22-year-old photographer Amy Berbert lives. She's...
View ArticleHow Temporary Blindness Taught Teju Cole To See
Going blind in one eye would unnerve anyone. And for a photographer, it’s especially upsetting. But Teju Cole found that his Big Blind Spot Syndrome taught him a new way to look at the world — and...
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How To Preserve Your Polaroid
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View ArticleIs It Ever Okay to Take a Picture of a Stranger on the Subway?
You've probably seen them: pictures of the manspreaders, the bag-splayers, or the generally uncourteous subway riders, showing up in your social media feeds after being surreptitiously photographed by...
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What We Saw At Newport Folk 2017
Moments of unexpected magic are the Newport Folk Festival's calling card. The festival typically sells out well before its lineup is even announced — but the official lineup is more of a rough...
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From Family Snapshots To NASA Photos, Archivists Aim To Solve Preservation...
When was the last time you had a roll of film developed? For many, our digital devices are datebook, rolodex and camera all in one. But moments captured on film are finding a second life through a...
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This photographer took pictures of every one of her Facebook friends to...
Mary Bok, Camden, Maine.On New Years’ Eve 2010, as Tanja Hollander wrote a letter to a friend deployed to Afghanistan while also instant messaging with a friend in Jakarta, she marveled at the...
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What Hiram Maristany Saw Looking Through The Lens At El Barrio
Photographer Hiram Maristany first picked up a camera as a teenager in 1959 at the urging of a social worker named Dan Murrow. He used it to document his world in El Barrio — or East Harlem — a close...
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What it’s like to be President Trump’s White House photographer
Chief Official White House Photographer Shealah Craighead photographs President Donald J. Trump during a tour of the Sistine Chapel, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in Vatican City. Photo by Andrea Hanks From...
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New Project Aims to Find Hope Through Photography
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. From Army captains who are coming back from battle, to transgender people on the brink of transitioning, finding hope can be as simple as...
View ArticleA Year Spent Diving from St. Lawrence to West Palm Beach
Writer, photographer and diver Jerry Shine talks about his book A Year Underwater: Twelve Months of Diving, Fraternizing with Marine Life, and Just Having a Great Time, from the St. Lawrence River to...
View ArticleFrom Drug Kingpin to FBI Informant, 'Crown Heights,' A Year Spent Diving...
Roman Caribe and Robert Cea discuss their book Confidential Source 96, the story of a former drug kingpin turned informant for the FBI, ICE and DEA. Nnamdi Asomugha talks about his film “Crown...
View ArticleMiniskirts and Military Intervention: Behind the 1970s Kabul Photo That...
President Trump has announced his decision to remain in Afghanistan and increase U.S. troop levels there, continuing the 16-year-long conflict.And what helped shape his decision, according to The...
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A Retired Marine And A Photojournalist Confront War's 'Invisible Injuries'
After Marine Sgt. Thomas ("TJ") Brennan was hit by the blast from a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan in 2010, he suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him unable to recall much of his...
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In 'More Than A Picture' Exhibit, History Happens Now
Remembering our nation's history through photographs is the focus of the newest and first special exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C."More Than...
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Small Michigan museum holds massive collection of Edward Curtis’ Native...
Photo by Edward S. Curtis, courtesy of Muskegon Museum of ArtIn 1907, a Michigan librarian named Lulu Miller had a wild proposal. She wanted her library in Muskegon, then a bustling industrial port on...
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'From The Mundane To The Magnificent': Photos From The Chicano Rights Movement
Ask Luis Garza how the La Raza exhibition came to be at The Autry Museum of the American West, and he raises his palms, eyes heavenward:"Karma," he says. "Fate. Serendipity. The gods have chosen to...
View ArticleWho Was The First Great Portrait Photographer?
In 19th-century Paris, there were few artists/entrepreneurs as popular as Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. Tournachon made a name for himself as the first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist...
View ArticleTransforming Lives Through Art
In “Faces Places,” the eminent French filmmaker Agnès Varda teams with the street artist JR (known for his recent mural on the Mexican border). They take a wondrous journey of making art and...
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Photos: Four decades of William Wegman’s Weimaraners
Photo courtesy of William WegmanFor more than 40 years, artist William Wegman has been making portraits and videos of his beloved Weimaraner dogs, who have appeared in numerous publications and on...
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‘How do I know she’s being forced?’: New exhibit reveals the dark underbelly...
Credit: Kay ChernushWhere does human trafficking take place? In Russia, China, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and… all over the United States. Labor trafficking occurs in elder care, nail...
View ArticleWhat's Behind Annie Leibovitz's Portraits
Annie Leibovitz is a legendary photographer who began her career in the 1970s, shooting photos for Rolling Stone. She joins us to discuss her recent work in portraiture and her new book Annie...
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Photographer Pete Souza Reflects On 8 Years (And 1.9 Million Photos) Of Obama
As the chief official White House photographer for President Barack Obama, Pete Souza had top security clearance and sat in on most meetings and major events with the president."I was there all the...
View ArticleA Deadly Error
Coming up on today's show:Just five days ago, Devin Kelley walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas and murdered 26 people with a AR-15 style military rifle. As officials try...
View ArticleSeeing Barack Obama Through the Viewfinder
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. In the months since he left the White House, chief photographer Pete Souza’s photos and subtle trolling on his Instagram and Twitter pages has...
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New Exhibit Shows Off Special Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen's Lasting Works
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Review: A Shore Thing
The Stephen Shore retrospective opening Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art could not have come at a better time. In an age when iPhones have turned most everyone into a wandering photographer of...
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The Influence of Affluence
In her exhibit “Generation Wealth,” Lauren Greenfield, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, chronicles how evolving perceptions of money, status and celebrity have transformed societies around the...
View ArticleTodd Webb's New York Of The 1940s/50s
Todd Webb was an iconic photographer who spent all hours of the day capturing the people, buildings and avenues that made up New York City during the 1940's and '50s. Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints...
View ArticleA 70-Year-Old Photograph, A Brand New Lens
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentJessica Bennett of the New York Times and Koa Beck of Jezebel recently talked on The Takeaway about consuming art and popular culture in the...
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From Sandwich Shops To Cotton Mills, Art That Honors The American Worker
A lot of very hard work is going on at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.A muscled guy in an undershirt tightens a big bolt with his wrench; a farm worker bends almost in half, filling...
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Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can't
A team of engineers at Dartmouth College has invented a semiconductor chip that could someday give the camera in your phone the kind of vision even a superhero would envy.The new technology comes from...
View ArticleExhibit Features East Village Photographer Peter Hujar
Joel Smith, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at The Morgan Library & Museum, discusses the new exhibit Peter Hujar: Speed of Life at the Morgan. It runs through May 20th and features...
View ArticleInside NFL Protests, Peter Hujar's Photography, Stop-and-Frisk Isn't Over
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Benn Steil discusses his new book The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, which looks at the legacy of the Marshall Plan in the context of today’s world...
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Review: Heading Downtown with Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar, the subject of a riveting retrospective at the Morgan Library and Museum, deserves to be better-known. A photographer who specialized in tender black-and-white portraits of his friends...
View ArticleRussian Spies, America's Concentration Camps, The Refugee Soccer Team that...
Journalist Howard Blum discusses his new book, which argues that to address Russian intervention in America today, we need to understand the history of Russian espionage dating back to the Cold War....
View ArticleThe Life and Death of a Japanese Internment Camp
Photographer Stan Honda talks about the book, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, which was written by Sharon Yamato and features his black and white photography. This book is...
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Woman's Instagram Post About Kenyan Child Ignites Fury
Editor's Note: This story was originally published on November 26, 2017 and has been updated.This week, an Instagram user who goes by the name of Jossa Johansson has come under fire for the caption of...
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PHOTOS: The Vanishing Body Art Of A Tribe Of Onetime Headhunters
When Phejin Konyak was a girl, she'd sit on her grandfather's lap in front of a roaring fireplace, with a pot of black tea simmering. He'd tell her folk tales. She was entranced by the stories — but...
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The Complex Story Of Civil Rights Photographer Ernest Withers
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3 Photographers Who Captured The Undersides Of Life
We snap a selfie with the tap of a finger. We're used to preserving smiling moments.At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, there's an exhibit right now which goes to darker places with a...
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6 More Concert Halls We Can't Look Away From
Theaters aren’t merely spaces we associate with wonderful sound — in many instances they are architecturally stunning as well. Continuing our exploration of the world’s most beautiful halls, here are...
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Tyra Banks Takes Her Mama's Advice, Turns It Into A Book
Nobody’s perfect. And that’s a good thing. It’s also a lesson supermodel and entrepreneur Tyra Banks learned early on from her mother, Carolyn London.London, a retired photographer, not only supported...
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