Fables in Photojournalism

Bill Biggart was the only journalist casualty in the 9/11 tragedy of the collapse of the World Trade Center. He became a photographer very early in life. On that day he was carrying three cameras one of them digital, he had just bought.

The men trudge up the staircase, slip around a body asleep on the landing and enter a dim corridor, where a fat man with broken teeth and two missing fingertips rouses himself off a saggy couch.

Mariah Barlow, 12, cries as her father, Chief Warrant Officer Joel Barlow with the Idaho National Guard, leaves for a one-year deployment to Afghanistan on April 7, 2012 in Boise, Idaho. (Charlie Litchfield/Idaho Press-Tribune/Associated Press)

Never-seen photographs by Garry Winogrand, with audio commentary from George McGovern.

Forty years after the “napalm girl” picture changed the tide in the Vietnam war, a photographer who was there and missed capturing that image reflects on its power and on waiting for the moment.

A moving collection of iconic photographs from the last 100 years that demonstrate the heartbreak of loss, the tremendous power of loyalty, and the triumph of the human spirit. Warning: Some of the...

To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.

To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeting reality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

...Eisenstaedt was successful enough to become a full-time photographer in 1929. Four years later he photographed a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Italy. Other notable pictures taken by Eisenstaedt in his early career include a waiter ice skating in St. Moritz in 1932 and Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1933...