After his apartment was demolished to make space for Barclays Center, Jeff Mermelstein photographed the new arena’s suits, shills and suds.
Colombia’s bloody conflict left Andres Cardona an orphan. After years of covering how political violence devastated others, he now looks at how it changed his life forever.
An exhibition shows how the pioneers of photography saw the dominant medium of painting both as inspiration and competition.
In documenting his homeland, the British photographer captures its contradictions and ambiguities with a sense of humor.
The famed cathedral still stands, and a devastated France has one unwavering goal: It will be rebuilt.
As hundreds of firefighters raced to the cathedral, in the center of the French capital, Parisians gathered to watch, many of them in tears.
As hundreds of firefighters raced to the cathedral, in the center of the French capital, Parisians gathered to watch, many of them in tears.
As hundreds of firefighters raced to the cathedral, in the center of the French capital, Parisians gathered to watch, many of them in tears.
Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post took the award for feature photography and the photo staff of Reuters won for breaking news photography.
A reluctant rock concert attendee, Bill Owens nevertheless photographed the disastrous 1969 music festival Altamont and the close of an era.
New technology and the rise of social media have changed what it means to take pictures of the N.B.A. One new requirement: making the athletes look good on Instagram.
Life under the unbreakable lure of the screen.
Ms. Copeland, the American Ballet Theater’s first black principal ballerina, served as guest editor for a special section on dance photography.
In orbit aboard the International Space Station, the astronaut wasn’t just gathering data for NASA’s Twins Study. He also produced some, well, stellar images.
The project included more than 200 researchers around the world, about 40 of them women, including Dr. Bouman.
John Moore’s photo of a 2-year-old asylum seeker and her mother being detained was named photo of the year in the World Press Photo contest.
I wanted to uncover ancient shards of my childhood gender and piece them back into the whole.
The photographer Citlali Fabián documented the culture that persists and sustains in her hometown Yalálag, Mexico, and beyond, through its residents and its diaspora.
Mary Beth Edelson’s “Great Goddess Cut-Outs”; John McLaughlin’s trove of photographs; and Keiji Uematsu’s first American solo show.
Jean Andre Antoine uses a camera from 1947 and spends nearly every day working the same SoHo block.
Here is the trick: Let your smartphone do the work.
He was the government’s official photographer at Oak Ridge, Tenn., a secret city where uranium was enriched for the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ahead of his court case, the Bangladeshi photojournalist and activist discussed democratizing photography and government censorship at the New York Portfolio Review.
Joan E. Biren began to photograph at a time when it was almost impossible to find authentic images of lesbians and aimed to help build a movement for their liberation.
Sure, you can rely on your phone to take photographs. But these items can help elevate the quality of your images without weighing you down.
A photographer reflects on two pivotal elections in her hometown, 36 years apart.
We wanted a cover for Arts & Leisure that was appropriately spectacular for the show’s final season. A life-size throne seemed a bit over budget.
A new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art shows that image sharing is evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The photograph, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, humanizes Tubman and shows her in her youth.
The generation of talent brought in from 1973 to 1992 changed the paper’s look.
The photographer’s images of Washington Square Park revealed, with affection and longing, a Hungarian émigré who was an outsider in his adopted land.
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand and Rebecca Salsbury coupled, fought and made some of the most influential photographs and paintings of the 20th century. “Foursome,” by Carolyn Burke, tells their story.
Through Kibera Stories, Brian Otieno looks beyond the stark realities that have defined his hometown’s visual narrative to photograph innovative fashion, art and everyday life.
He overcame his fear of heights to capture unique views, from the Statue of Liberty ‘s torch and the antennas of the Empire State and World Trade Center.
An NYT Magazine Labs project sent the photographer Christopher Payne to The Times’s printing plant in College Point, Queens, to find the beauty in newsprint and the people who produce it.
A lawsuit against Harvard over two haunting 1850 photographs stirs debate over how to balance the need to preserve history and the moral claims of descendants.
A new play by the Australian writer Stephen Sewell imagines an intriguing meeting of strong women.
The photographer talks with Hanya Yanagihara about the often unsettling power dynamic of taking a person’s picture — and their shared love of the artists who do it so well.
Aid agencies have called it the worst natural disaster in southern Africa in two decades, and warned that the death toll could climb past 1,000.
A woman is suing the university for photographs taken 169 years ago of slaves she says are her ancestors. The images were taken as part of a racist study.