Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958) first started taking photographs at the age of sixteen with a camera given to him by his father. Over the next five decades, he would come to be regarded by his peers as one of the greatest photographers of the twentie...

When the "Chicago Daily News" closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original".The Daily News" boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben...

Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U. S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as l...

"The Origins of American Photography" chronicles the emergence of a new visual paradigm, from the introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839 through the Civil War and the exploration of the West to the rise of popular photography in the 1880s. Beautif...

The Lomo camera, an icon of mid-20th century Russian design, is perceived as unable to take a bad picture, due to the unique glass lens and capability for handling low-light levels. This antidote to all things digital and slick has found a vast inter...

The best of the groundbreaking website learningtoloveyoumore. com, which asks ordinary people to complete out-of-the-ordinary assignments – with extraordinary results. In a world obsessed with "reality" programming, the collaborative public art pro...

This is a superb photographic celebration of the unique places and people of Los Angeles. Photographer John Humble has lived and worked in Los Angeles for over thirty years – in that time he has created a stunning body of work that uniquely captures...

As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...

Not for sale in Estonia! This survey of Iren Stehli's images from 1973 to 2001 captures Czech life over an intense three decades. The artist, born in Zurich in 1953, studied photography in Prague in the mid-70s. In the late 60s, her adopted country...

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years, he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seekin...