Once the war began, Brady was well established as one of the most prestigious photographers in America. He felt his position gave him a certain responsibility to document the war; he recalled ...
Probably the best-known photographer in the exhibition is the American Lee Miller (1907-1977). Thanks to her position at Vogue magazine, she was able to travel with American troops in World War ...
Photos, however, are able to go a step further by making war’s cruelty and its impact on people visually, undeniably evident. This has been true as long as photographers have been pointing their ...
But Miller, born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907, was not content to be a muse for male photographers ... During World War II, ignoring personal warnings from U.S. diplomats to return stateside ...
Edward Steichen convinced the U.S. Navy to let him gather a team of photographers to capture the men serving their country in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Astronomers Create First ...
With much of his collection preserved in the National Library of Congress, Timothy O'Sullivan's works included snaps of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army. Born in Ireland, Timothy O ...
Local photographers on the frontline ... has come out of the killings but this scene, for me, best represents how I feel about the drug war. In mid-August, it shows the bodies of Paul Lester ...