Photography

Civil rights veterans today Civil rights veterans today

In the 1960s, they protested in Alabama, registered voters in Mississippi and marched on Washington. In a new photo essay, they speak out on race and Obama.
  • Porn in a flash

    A troubling surge in creepy "upskirt" photography has lawmakers in a twist -- and the body parts of women posted all over the Internet.
  • Flagging America's racial divide

    An infamous 1976 photo captured a violent encounter between white Bostonians and a black lawyer during an anti-busing rally. A new book explains why this image continues to haunt and define us.
  • The look books

    From glamour-pusses to global warming, criminal mug shots to art stars, Salon's seasonal guide to coffee-table books has something to enchant just about everyone.
  • Live large and prosper

    An interview with Leonard Nimoy, whose new photography book, "The Full Body Project," brings Rubenesque nudes back into contemporary art.
  • Life beyond the lens

    New novels frame two of photography's most compelling legends, Edward Curtis and Edward Steichen.
  • Wedding trashers

    America may be in the midst of full-on wedding mania, but a new craze for gown wrecking has tapped into a rich vein of bride rage.
  • A stretch, even for Drudge

    The Drudge Report, digging ever deeper to find evidence of media bias, hits bottom.
  • Annie Leibovitz's reckless candor

    The renowned photographer's snapshots of her partner Susan Sontag and of her family, exhibited for the first time, are shocking in their intimacy -- but they should have stayed inside that shoe box.
  • U.S. agrees to release Abu Ghraib photos

    Citing Salon's publication, government abandons its fight to keep images of abuse secret.
  • Jude the not so obscure

    What Jude Law's exposed manhood can teach us about straight chicks, porn, and why size really, really doesn't matter.
  • Writing in the Margins

    The latest indie-publishing news: Don DeLillo, imprisoned in Texas! Ben Watts' soopa-bad hip-hop photography, Laura Flanders on how Bush bamboozled women, and Ralph Nader just called to say he loves you.
  • Elegy for the darkroom

    As PCs loaded with Photoshop replace Bessler enlargers, obsolescence is threatening the fond memories of my youth.
  • A picture is no longer worth a thousand words

    Which photograph of Lance Cpl. Ted Boudreaux and two boys in the desert is the real thing? No one knows for sure, in the age of Photoshop.
  • The man who loved women

    Photography collector and editor Peter Fetterman talks about the naked woman as landscape -- and why women look hotter reading Proust.
  • Remembrance of naked chicks past

    Helmut Newton's "Autobiography" offers a surprisingly touching reminiscence of a childhood in pre-Nazi Germany -- and the life of erotic pleasure that followed.
  • A naked woman is never ironic

    Historian Jessica Glasscock chats about the first striptease, pasties, pubic landing strips, and the nude-friendly hippies who raised her.
  • A girl in every port

    A search for cultural roots takes photographer Reagan Louie into Asia's sex industry.
  • Black garters and riding crops

    Photographer Ellen von Unwerth talks about her new S/M fantasy book, "Revenge," in which the wicked baroness finally gets what's coming to her.
  • Female erotica

    Pictures of women, taken by women, are different from those taken by men -- or are they?
  • The revolution will be photographed

    Fotolog combines the community-creation powers of the Internet with the ease of digital photography. The result: Everyone's an artist.
  • Natural girls

    For his latest book project, photographer Dave Naz went to Ross and bought lots of women's cotton underpants.
  • Classic couples

    Did Liz and Dick love each other more photogenically than Ben and J.Lo? A new book makes it seem so.
  • Three days in the Valley

    Photographer Larry Sultan finds poignancy before and after the action on porn sets.
  • Passionate pairs

    Stefan May takes black-and-white photographs of couples in the throes of passion -- or at least pretending to be.
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