Lisette Model’s candid and cruel portraits spawned an American genre. But the key to understanding her might lie in Europe, ...

These are just a few of the 100,000 portraits Sami Aziz captured in a single year along Philadephia's iconic South Street. Images ©Sami Aziz Can a creative project change your life? Photographer Sami ...

Meyerowitz's path to becoming a leading figure in 20th century photography began with a sudden, decisive moment. Born in New York City in 1938, he was working as an advertising art director when he ...

Street photography is one of those unique genres of photography that is rather loosely defined. Some people take portraits on the street and call it street photography, some capture candid moments of ...

If the first casualty of war is truth, the second may well be works of art. This was likely the case for photographer Fred Stein, a Dresden-born Jew whose fame may have been hampered by the Holocaust ...

In 1983, after working with The Police and The Clash, punk rock photographer Janette Beckman moved to New York City from Britain to document the unfolding hip-hop scene, photographing soon-to-be icons ...

Welcome to In Focus, a feature where writer Hannah Frishberg profiles some of the great street photographers of New York City's past and present. It's intriguing. It's real. There's just so much out ...

If you’ve seen pictures of the Ballets Russes, then you’ve seen Hoppé photographs. But then, if you’ve seen any society pictures from the 1920s and 1930s, then you’ve seen Hoppé. And famous writers.

A wide-eyed closeup portrait of Louis Armstrong has popped up near the corner of Gravier and O’Keefe streets in the CBD. The 45-foot-tall painting of the most popular jazz musician of the 20th century ...

A handsome, well-coiffed man carries a tray of tofu through the streets of Hong Kong. Workers squat on concrete steps picking at their lunches with chopsticks. An old woman walks down an empty alley, ...