The Best Photo (Sitting On Your Phone) of 2016
Michael Kamber, photojournalist and founder of the Bronx Documentary Center, and photojournalist David "Dee" Delgado pick their top three favorites from The Brian Lehrer Show's annual top photo...
View Article‘We, as a people, still exist’ — artist illuminates Native American history...
Photo by Mercedes DorameIn 2009, artist Mercedes Dorame received a gift from her father — a CD filled with images of her family, some of whom she had never seen before. It was a new window into the...
View ArticleStudy: What Was The Impact Of The Iconic Photo Of The Syrian Boy?
Editor's Note: The photos in this story may be distressing to some viewers. More than one year later, the photo that woke up the world to the Syrian refugee crisis remains indelible: three-year-old...
View ArticleNational Portrait Gallery Installs Photo Of President-Elect Trump
A 1989 photograph of Donald Trump tossing a red apple was installed today at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The museum is known for having one of two complete...
View ArticleThe Obama White House, from the man behind the lens
Watch VideoJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: As former President Obama now embarks on life after the White House, flying to California for vacation, few people had as intimate a view of him as the man...
View ArticlePHOTOS: A Drone's View Of The World
At Goats and Soda we're always watching the developing world.A group of international photographers is doing the same thing — but from a drone's perspective.We mined the website dronestagram (think...
View ArticleSatirist Takes Berlin Holocaust Memorial Selfie-Takers To Task
At first glance, the snapshots featured on yolocaust.de look like any other ordinary selfies. People are smiling, dancing, juggling or striking a yoga pose. But if you move the mouse over an image, the...
View ArticlePhoto League Founder's Solo Show
There’s a beautiful photography exhibit of work by Sid Grossman (1913-1955) at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan. It’s the first Grossman solo exhibit in 30 years! The photographer lived a...
View ArticleRobert Frank on Image-Making
In the documentary “Don’t Blink: Robert Frank,” we spend quality time with the New York photographer and filmmaker, now in his 90s. While Frank has been a reluctant interview subject in the past,...
View ArticleHistorically Black, Pt. 2
Objects hold history. They're evocative of stories stamped in time. As part of The Washington Post's coverage of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people...
View ArticleLong Before There Was 'Fake News,' There Were 'Fake Photos'
On display at the "Photography and Discovery" exhibit at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., is a photo of two men dressed in traditional Arab garb in a carpeted room (above). They're...
View Article'Explosive' Image Of An Assassination Wins World Press Photo Of The Year
The image that won the 2017 World Press Photo of the Year award was described by one jury member as the "face of hatred."It shows a shouting, suit-clad gunman standing in an art gallery in Turkey's...
View ArticleUp All Night: New York Through an Insomniac's Lens
As someone who never sleeps, New York seemed like the perfect place to move. Bill Hayes, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and the author of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me...
View ArticleGoing Behind the Scenes with The Beatles
Martha Karsh joins us to discuss The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night: A Private Archive, a new collection of previously unreleased publicity photos from The Beatles’ 1964 film, “A Hard Day’s Night.” In...
View ArticleThe Trial of Dylann Roof, Exploring the World with "Planet Earth II," an...
New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb joins us to discuss his recent article, “Prodigy of Hate” (Online title: "Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof") about the federal trial of Dylann Roof in Charleston,...
View ArticleThis Photographer Captures A Megacity's Vibe In A Single Photo
Can you capture the energy of a city in just one image?That's the idea behind Metropolis, a book of photos of the world's megacities by Dutch photographer Martin Roemers. The images illustrate the...
View ArticleCatherine Opie’s Optimism
Some of Catherine Opie’s landscape photographs once hung in the White House. Her work comprises a wide variety of subjects, including her own experiences with breastfeeding, Elizabeth Taylor’s...
View ArticleVietnamese American Photographer An-My Le Selected For Whitney Biennial
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View ArticlePhoto of a Syrian man listening to records in his bombed-out bedroom is about...
Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, or Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his gramophone in Aleppo’s formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood on March 9. Photo...
View ArticlePhotography for Dogs 101
Elias Weiss Friedman, better known as The Dogist, is the Internet’s favorite dog photographer. He’s developed a daily practice of taking stunning portraits of other people’s pups and in the past three...
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