When Anthony Hernandez was a street-wandering teenager in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles in the 1960s, a friend of his gave him, on a whim, a book about basic photography. His first thought was, fashion photographers get money…

Frank Horvat, at 87, is of the generation of photographers who learned the ropes by working at the big-picture-spread magazines of the 1950s and ’60s (Life, Look, then Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar). Born in what was then…

When TIME Magazine controversially chose Donald Trump to be its “Person of the Year” at the end of 2016, the photographer they asked to shoot his portrait managed to create what immediately became a viral, much-parodied web meme. The…

Mona Kuhn is a Brazilian of German descent who landed in Los Angeles in 2005, where she became enamored of the regional light, particularly in nearby deserts. She spent three years shooting in the Mojave Desert, from Joshua Tree to the Navajo Indian…

David LaChapelle is one of a handful of photographers who need no introduction to anyone who has ever read a glossy magazine. His brash, ultra-vivid photographs have managed to remain startlingly original in the overtrod blitz-and-glitz worlds of…

Richard Learoyd’s photographs are meant to mimic the way the eye sees the world — conically, with the center highly focused and the periphery gradually, subtly blurring outward, in both detail and consciousness. Although he does still lifes, his…

THE ONLY TIME legendary wartime photojournalist Don McCullin lost his nerve was in Cambodia in 1970. Caught in the relentless crossfire that was decimating the soldiers around him, he finally realized that “a negative is not worth my life.” He…