Audrey Hepburn emphatically reproduced by Avedon.
Postwar American photography
"He allows us to see just a few things, and the narratives that we're able to build as a result is what really makes this work so important."
Rashid Johnson on Robert Frank’s The Americans
Contemporary artist LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses the dignity and complexity given a Harlem gang leader in this photographic portrait
LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’s Red ...
The episode reveals how such approaches by the press can override and contaminate the subjects portrayed.
How Photographs of Poverty in the Americas ...
Photographer Richard Mirach recounts his work, from his early political aspirations in the 1970s to his current series about left-behind artifacts along the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Richard Misrach’s early work and Border Cantos
Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank recalls his experience as a young artist and discusses his seminal book The Americans (1958)
An interview with Robert Frank
New Topographics reinvented the landscape, making the photograph an expression of responsibility.
New Topographics
Go backstage at the 1960 Democratic National Convention with photographer Gary Winogrand.
Garry Winogrand, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, ...
Gordon Parks and the writer Ralph Ellison collaborated to show that Harlem is everywhere.
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