In the world that is ruled by celebrity royalty, Martin Schoeller is often the court jester. His signature warts-and-all closeups of the famous who are willing to be so candidly exposed — George Clooney, Iggy Pop, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie,…

The United Kingdom recently celebrated what it calls Mothering Day, which is apt because London-born Neil Selkirk (now based in New York) just last week opened an exhibition of his Certain Women series. Its focus is mothers — initially, some 20…

Andres Serrano grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, without a father, and raised by a hard-working mother subject to psychotic episodes that would remove her from his life for weeks at a time. “I don’t know what it’s like to have a normal family, and…

Many of the photographers in this series explore a terra firma geography. Traversing the globe, each finds a concrete place that compels them, and their camera bears witness to it. But as photography increasingly assigns itself to exploring the…

Maggie Taylor is a scavenger. She rummages through the dustbin of photographic history — not that of museums and scholarly tomes but the eclipsed and discarded history of faded postcards, anonymous Victorian portraits, and flea-market albums. And…

As a longtime photojournalist, Paris-based Ambroise Tézenas believes his role is to bear witness and not make judgments — even when confronted with an industry that has thrived on showcasing the worst evils and disasters of mankind as a sideline of…

A few weeks ago we profiled Maggie Taylor, and she spoke affectionately about how her husband Jerry Uelsmann provided her with crucial input on her dreamlike photomontages. Though they share a love for images that seem to originate in the…