Photography

Observed|Collections

Flickr Collection of the Week: Are these Buildings? Or Art?

Images of architecture as art.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: The Eiffel Tower by Germaine Krull

A Paris icon made abstract

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Nurse Midwife by W. Eugene Smith

The mystery of birth

Jason Orton|Gallery

All That Remains

Jason Orton's photograph of a tree in Dartford, Kent, one of few left over from a lush arboretum.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The City in Pictures

Every great city is unique. Each has its own special character, a certain cosmopolitan energy that is its own, the product of its people, its history, its culture, its physical form.

Julie Lasky|Projects

Bigshot Camera

Report on a camera that children assemble to learn about science and engineering principles.

Dona Ann McAdams|Gallery

Milking It

Dona Ann McAdams photograph featured in an exhibition at the Opalka Gallery in Albany, New York.

Felice C. Frankel|Slideshows

No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale

A slideshow of images from the book, No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale.

Lindsay Stark|Gallery

Renewal

Aid worker Lindsay Stark's portrait of the ritual purification of a child soldier in Sierra Leone.

Owen Edwards|Essays

Irving Penn, 1917-2009

Irving Penn, who died on October 7th at the age of 92, marks the end of the great age of glamour in magazines, a remarkable period when brilliant photographers who happened to make their livings in fashion and advertising were finally …

Justin Partyka|Gallery

The East Anglians

Image from photographer Justin Partyka's series, The East Anglians, about the decline of rural culture in the UK.

Bradford McKee|Interviews

New Grub Street

Interview with photorapher Jonas Bendiksen following the opening of his exhibition "The Places We Live."