Pictures of the Week, December 16 – December 23
From the North Korean’s reaction to the death of Kim Jong II and a devastating typhoon in the Philippines to a violent assault by Egyptian soldiers on a woman protester TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See last week’s Pictures of the Week. LightBox More...
TIME Looks Back at The Best Photos… of Photos from 2011
Whether it’s a time of happiness or sadness, celebration or condolence, pictures capture the essence of a moment in time and preserve it, so we can look back and recall — if only for a second — how More...
The Singular Approach: Chien-Chi Chang’s Contact Sheet Chronicle
From the birth of the 35mm camera until the advent of digital photography, the contact sheet has been an inextricable, ubiquitous and essential part of the photographic process. Magnum Contact Sheets, published More...
If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public: Prostitution in Morocco
In 2010, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University awarded the twentieth Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann to produce their project If More...
Deconstructing Constructions: James Casebere’s Works 1975-2010
American artist James Casebere has been photographing dioramic constructions of human civilization since 1975. His tableaus—scenes from places both fictional and real—respond to current events and are the More...
Portraits of Power: African Kings in an Age of Empire
For too long, African art has been viewed in the West through a distorted lens. The modernists of the early 20th century saw in its shapes a kind of atavistic ideal — divorced from the realism of European More...
Chicks With Guns
The stereotype is as old as the Spartans. Those ancient, dichotomy loving Greeks had gender-specific definitions for heroism: men who fell in battle and women who died in childbirth. Epics sang of arms and the More...
A New Way to Photograph War: Condition ONE Launches Today
UPDATE, November 11, 2011: Condition ONE is now available for download in the iTunes app store. Early last month I had the opportunity to test drive the app, which includes three short videos by veteran conflict More...
Pictures of the Week, November 4 – November 11
From ‘Id al Adha celebrations and flying rhinos to Alaska’s epic storm and Obama’s visit with school children, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See last week’s More...
The Art of War: Honoring the Fallen for a Lifetime
America’s troops too often come home from war only to remain a step apart from the rest of the nation. The chasm between the military and civilian populations has never been greater. It’s simple math: Less More...