Civil War Leaders — In An 1880s Insurance Ad?
If getting all of these Union commanders together in one room to pose for this photo seems like an impossible task, it was. It didn't happen.
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For Irving Penn, Perfect Portraiture Wasn't Just For Fashion Models
Penn created many of the stark, glossy pictures of stick-thin fashion models that appeared in Vogue. He also made portraits of nudes, celebrities and also everyday objects, like cigarettes.
Photo Essay: Your Cup Of Coffee Is Ready For Its Closeup
Photographer Sebastiao Salgado, whose parents owned a coffee mill, looks at the faces and places behind the $100 billion-a-year business.
The Intense Images Of Afghanistan's Long And 'Distant War'
Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has been documenting Afghanistan since 1988. A retrospective in Kabul from his book, A Distant War, takes his photos back to the country where he made them.
A Very Weird Photo Of Ulysses S. Grant
More than 80 years before Photoshop was introduced, a clever photographer doctored this picture — and tampered with history.
In 10,000 Snaps Of The Shutter, A 'Photographic Census' Of A City
Brandon Stanton left a life in finance for an entirely different quest: to snap the portraits of 10,000 people. The project eventually became Humans of New York, a blog and the basis for two books.
The Richness Of 'Poor' Places, From National Geographic's Photo Contest
The pictures capture racing buffalo in Bali, climbing kids in Burkina Faso and high-wire electricians in Bangladesh.
$2 Photo Found At Junk Store Has Billy The Kid In It, Could Be Worth $5M
The 4-inch-by-5-inch tintype depicts Billy the Kid playing croquet in the summer of 1878. The only other known photo of the outlaw was taken in 1880 and sold for $2.3 million in 2010.
At What Point Does A Fundraising Ad Go Too Far?
Images of the "starving child" were popular in 1980s campaigns. Critics didn't like the depiction of the developing world as a place of helpless victims. Such ads faded away, but now they're back.
With Her Camera, MacArthur 'Genius' Tells An African-American Rust Belt Story
Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier is the third generation of her family to grow up in Braddock, Pa. For years, she says, African-American contributions to the town have been "overlooked and ignored."