Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus, the photographer who made her name taking pictures of ordinary people with extraordinary characteristics, is the subject of an exhibit which opened this week at the Met Breuer. More on...
View ArticleTrailblazing Street Photographer Danny Lyon Captures American Life
Photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon discusses his first career retrospective in 25 years, “Message to the Future,” which is running until September 27 at the Whitney Museum (99 Gansevoort Street)....
View ArticleInside the Student Loan Debt Crisis. A Guide to Winning Any Argument.
Lance Williams, a senior reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, profiled several people faced with crippling student loan debt and harassment from collections...
View ArticleReview: Diane Arbus’s Baby Photographs
“Diane Arbus: in the beginning,” the darkly mesmerizing show currently on view at the Met Breuer outpost of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings together a selection of so-called early photographs....
View ArticlePHOTOS: Handing Over The Camera To People With HIV
Photographer Gideon Mendel had won several prestigious awards for his pictures of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But in 2007, he decided to hand over the camera to his subjects.He co-founded an organization...
View ArticleThe Photographer's Role in a Digital Age
Photographer Robert Herman took hundreds of iPhone photos while travelling around the world from 2010 to 2015. He joins us to discuss his new collection, The Phone Book, which showcases the best of his...
View ArticleThe Freakishly Empathetic Photos of Diane Arbus
The iconic American photographer Diane Arbus is remembered for her extraordinary and arresting images of society’s outcasts — giants, dwarves, nudists, and various other Others. She used a classical...
View ArticleAha Moment: Diane Arbus
Neil Selkirk is an accomplished portrait photographer. He began his career in London during the swinging 1960s, when being a magazine photographer meant wild parties, fancy cars, and beautiful girls....
View ArticleScraped, Splattered — But Silent No More. Finally, The Dinner Plate Gets Its...
Plates have long had a seat at the table, but they've suffered in silence – quietly bearing the indignities of everything from barbecue sauce to mustard stains.Until now.In February 2016,...
View ArticleTrue Believers, Protesters And Trump: Scenes From Cleveland
A national convention aims to offer a space for a political party to unify — to hone its message, set aside internal divisions and move forward toward a shared adversary. As Republicans sweep up...
View ArticleSusan Faludi on Identity, her Father's Gender Transition
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Susan Faludi had been estranged from her father, photographer Steven Faludi, for years when she learned that he had transitioned to a woman and changed his...
View ArticleHow An Olympics Photographer Captured Usain Bolt's 'Cheeky Grin'
On Sunday, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the men's 100 meters in Rio, retaining his status as the fastest man in the world.One photo from the day visually defines the career of this record-breaking...
View ArticleHow one exhibit is rethinking privacy in a world that’s always watching
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: A photography museum is reopening in a sleek new home in New York City, with an exhibition to make you think twice about all the cameras that surround...
View ArticleFrom Darkroom To Kitchen: A Time Capsule Of Recipes From Midcentury...
In 1977, Deborah Barsel, a bored assistant registrar at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, N.Y., decided to try a fun side project. She would create a cookbook made up of recipes and images from...
View ArticleWhen photography and martial arts collide
R.J. Kern wears many hats. He’s an award-winning wedding photographer, a fine arts photographer and a taekwondo instructor.R.J. Kern is a wedding and fine art photographer based in Minneapolis.“Having...
View Article225- Photo Credit
Founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus school in Germany would go on to shape modern architecture, art, and design for decades to come. The school sought to combine design and...
View ArticleThe Little Boy In Aleppo: Can One Photo End A War?
Can one photo help end a war?That's what people are wondering about the image of a little Syrian boy covered head to toe in a thick layer of dust, his face bloodied, as he sits in a bright orange...
View ArticleA portrait of turmoil in South Sudan, from behind the lens
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But, first: The world’s newest country, South Sudan, established in 2011, again stands on the brink of civil war. A peace deal signed last year between...
View ArticleBlack-and-white portraits from apartheid-era South Africa
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRead the full transcript below.RELATED LINKSA photographer’s diverse, complex portrait of apartheid-era South Africa IVETTE FELICIANO: These photographs by S.J. “Kitty”...
View ArticleAfter Louisiana Floods, A Photographer Finds Resilience
In Baton Rouge, La., people are using whatever tools they have to help their community recover from the flood.That includes cameras.Four photographers have been creating portraits of those affected....
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