As a leader of the Photo-Secession movement, Alfred Stieglitz searched for beauty through the craftsmanlike creation of photographs, held pioneering exhibitions of his…
To many white Americans in the 1930s, black people were little more than domestics or sharecroppers. They were ignored, invisible, forgotten. But that…
Nancy Burson arrived at the scene in 1948 St. Louis to take part in the rise of new media art and the technological…
The idea for the project that would challenge everything sacred about ownership in photography came to Richard Prince when he was working in…
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It was to quickly become the most influential news and photography magazine of its time, and LIFE’s November 1936 debut issue proudly announced…
Steamfitter (1920) by Lewis Hine Discover how Lewis Hine’s power-plant worker captured the dignity of industrial labour for the first time Did this…
Since she burst onto the art scene in the late 1970s, Cindy Sherman the person has always been obscured by Cindy Sherman the…
Mainstream American culture had little room for homosexuality in 1979, when Robert Mapplethorpe photographed Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter in their full sadomasochistic…
The Hollywood star Demi Moore was seven months pregnant with her second child when she graced the cover of Vanity Fair in nothing…