Disneyland With No People
My encounter with a giant of American photography
Viewfinder
Lee Friedlander’s America
The photographer spent decades meandering across the country with his camera. What was he looking for?
Robert Rauschenberg’s Penchant for Invention and Spectacle
In 2007, he and Merce Cunningham put a new twist on a famous 1981 sculpture.
By the Horns
Miriam Cabas is one of Spain’s few female bullfighters. What does her success mean for bullfighting, and for Spain?
Edward Burtynsky’s Warning
What the photographer found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz
Her portraits capture the joy and wariness of the genre’s luminaries.
No Parents Allowed
Before smartphones and social media, teenagers constructed their identity on the walls of their room.
What a Nuclear Explosion Looks Like
A secret detachment of military photographers documented America’s bomb tests.
Looking Up
What we see when we stare at the night sky
A New Force of Indian Country
In 1969, my father gave voice to an activist generation of Native Americans.