Books
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us, a photography book by Paul Koudounaris out this month from Thames & Hudson, is a visual narrative of how a more visceral relationship to the dead thrives across the globe.
Art
John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old when he shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC 150 years ago today.
Art
Save for his unusual name, Ralph Eugene Meatyard had all the trappings of an ordinary man.
Art
Wim Wenders co-directed The Salt of the Earth, a portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, with Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro. The film is both a comprehensive portrait of Salgado’s work and a meditation on the vocation of photojournalism.
Art
When I was editing our story about Canadians "spocking" their $5 bills, I discovered something curious: you can't Photoshop money.
Art
Arriving with dance and music, draped in orange and pink flowers, the dead keep constant company in Varanasi, India, where cremations happen by the hundred each day on the Ganges River.
Art
During the grimmest days of World War II, the Allied and Axis powers raced to fortify their coastlines.
News
Berenice Abbott was best known for being New York City's official photographer during the Great Depression, though she actually explored a panoply of subjects during her six-decade-long career.
Art
The photographer Patrick Gookin recently explored the psychological ramifications of car culture in a series called LA by Car.
News
From contorted corpses splayed on the sidewalk to errant streetcars lodged in storefronts, the New York Police Department has photographed crime scenes almost since the technology was available.
Art
Since photography was first invented nearly 200 years ago, humans have gained an unprecedented visual understanding of their past.
Books
"In a cityscape largely without commercial seduction, the banality of the shop windows underscored a real cultural difference between East and West," photographer David Hlynsky writes in his introduction to Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain.