Opie has been using photography as a means of self-expression—and making friends through taking their portraits—since she had received a camera at age nine.
Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson
This picture was taken to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s official state visit to the United States in 2007.
Annie Leibovitz, Queen Elizabeth II
If the repeated face had not been the identifiably famous face of Audrey Hepburn emphatically reproduced by Avedon, this experimental photograph might not still resonate with us in the twenty-first century
Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, New York, January ...
Arndt’s choice to pose herself among so many textures, clothes, and props in Self-Portrait with Veil suggests she was well aware of the power of photography to interrogate gender roles.
Gertrud Arndt, Self-Portrait with Veil
Jacobi seems to have been able to see more facets of Einstein than the editors of Life cared to share with their readership.
Lotte Jacobi, Albert Einstein
Who was this dancer, and why was her body not shown?
Lotte Jacobi, Head of a Dancer
Horst's Mainbocher Corset photograph journeyed across oceans and time to 50 later transform Vogue into a concept and a verb.
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