What breathed new life into the practice of telling stories through pictures was documentary photography, which integrated a crucial social purpose. Documentary photography aimed to portray ...

When the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village at Blue Water, dozens of plundered artifacts ended up in the Smithsonian. The ...

Ernest Cole’s life story is an anti-colonialism epic, Cold War thriller, and a tragedy.

What breathed new life into the concept of telling stories through pictures was documentary photography which integrated a crucial, social purpose. Documentary photography aimed to portray, in a ...

Orange Blossom Trail is a new photography book collaboration between photographer Joshua Lutz and writer George Saunders, ...

Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her work during the 1930s with Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA). Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Lange studied ...

The formal aim of social documentary was initially to keep records, but by the 1930s, it evolved to enlighten and educate. Photographers gathered images to develop a ‘picture story’—a ...

This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with ...

Frank Hurley was Shackleton's photographer and cinematographer on the doomed 1914 Antarctic expedition during which their ...

This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘What is the future of photography? ’ ...

From a stoic ‘queen’ crossing a desert to silly and heartwarming portraits, these dog photo competition winners highlight the ...