The first thing one notices about the photographs of Miles Aldridge is their giddy, electric color — italicizing a radiant world of gorgeous young women frozen in odd vignettes. Aldridge, bored with his meteoric success in fashion photography,…

Aside from marrying Catherine Deneuve, partying with the Rolling Stones, and inspiring the David Hemmings character in Antonioni’s Blowup, famed British photographer David Bailey is best known for magnifying the 1960s’ “Swinging London” with…

Is astonishment a path to personal truth? Roger Ballen constructs unique photographs that live in a liminal zone between the hauntingly beautiful and the deeply disturbing. Square in format, they are imaginative arrangements of elements that trigger…

Unless you live in the relentlessly complicated region dominated by the state of Israel, Palestinians may seem like a faceless abstraction no matter which side of their struggle for enfranchisement you’re on. Which is what drew me to interview Raed…

Images of other people’s kids have become so ubiquitous in social media that it’s a feat of no little imagination to create a body of work in which children are restored as creatures of limitless theatrical potential. Julie Blackmon shoots…

An urban legend describes Hemingway writing a six-word novel on a napkin, on a bet at the Algonquin: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Fiction in the age of Twitter could surely cite this terse apocrypha as a forerunner of the minimalist…

Nick Brandt has vastly expanded and redefined the artistic reach of nature photography. In 1995, Brandt went to Tanzania to direct a music video for Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song.” He was deeply moved by the grandeur and variety of wildlife he…