IN 1969, PIPPA GARNER, a student in the automotive design program at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, submitted as her end-of-year assignment a scaled-down fiberglass replica of a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia that had mutated and grown a pair…

THE CELEBRITY CULTURE in which we now swim, some would say drown, has accelerated far beyond what anyone awake in the 1950s would ever have imagined. Before the 24/7 global voyeurism of the Web, before E! and Barbara Walters and…

Comic-book heroes have all but devoured summer cinema, and have become so pervasive in our diluted, infantilized culture that actors who get to play them have more or less won the lottery. For many Western schoolkids and teens, particularly males,…

Like most photographers whose job it is to make the famous look beautiful or intriguing, Greg Gorman is a control freak. For close to half a century he has honed the studio environment into a perfectly calibrated instrument of light and shadow to…

Most photographers are passive, often neutral observers. Stanislas Guigui fully inhabits the ferocious world he shoots, completely caught in its turbulence. He has resided and worked in Colombia for over 20 years, and the images he is now assembling…

One thinks of India as a land of vibrant and varied color, of tile and textiles in everyday life that ravish with the most exotic hues. But Soham Gupta decided early on, when he dropped out of college at a difficult emotional turning point, that he…

For over two decades, Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink, from her base in New York, has devised complex high-concept projects that entail traveling around the world much of each year. Although widely varied, her missions can be roughly divided…