Photography and society

Written By Gwen Sharp, PhD for The Society Pages Last year Lynne Grumet set the Internet a-flutter when she appeared on the cover of TIME magazine breastfeeding her toddler.

Find out why this photographer decided to literally take candy from a baby, and see the aftermath.

On the advent of his newest book, Fred Ritchin writes on the power of the photograph in the modern era and the relationship between social justice and photojournalism.

A nice Cheerios advertisement whose only discernible difference from other Cheerios commercials is that it depicts an interracial family was forced to disable its YouTube comments section today after it became inundated with virulent racism.

For the artist Liu Bolin, making himself “invisible” has turned his career into a highly visible one.

A gallery show features pictures of residents shot through their windows. The subjects are understandably annoyed

Is this legal?

It seems almost too self-evident to be worth saying, but the passage of time is central to photography. So many stages in the photographic process are bound up

Photographer Will Steacy has been documenting financially difficult years for the Philadelphia Inquirer, giving a unique perspective on the national downsizing and closures that are easily dismissed as just numbers.

The great photojournalist exposes us to a 'pristine' monochrome planet… but leaves the viewer to interpret where mankind fits in, writes Laura Cumming

Over the past three days, the armchair detectives on Reddit's findbostonbombers message board have worked their way through all the people with backpacks in all the photos they could find of the area around the Boston Marathon finish line, looking...

Investigators have made a

What would Photoshopped features look like on real faces?

(Reuters) - Space-starved New Yorkers might know better than to expect privacy in their glass-and-steel residential boxes.

As social-media sites requiring a profile picture gained popularity, so, too, did the self-taken photograph…

As I wandered up Michigan Avenue doing street photography, I started to dwell on the day’s events.

A post about child servitude in Haiti, deleted from the New York Times Lens Blog, serves as the basis for questions about the ethics of photojournalism, the practice of online journalism and the issues involved when the American media market trains...

The tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma on May 20 left many dead and injured, a school destroyed and a community to pick up the pieces.

Yet another prize winning photographer has been accused of visual deception. Subsequently, Paul Hansen’s World Press Photo of the Year passed the foren

For the past decade, photographer Douglas Adesko has been creating a photo series that is half photography, half anthropological study. His series Fami

At first glance, the images of the contestants in the 2013 Miss Korea pageant seem like a trick of the eye: Wait, are some of these the same person with different hair?

The story of photographer Jacques Lowe and his iconic work chronicling the Kennedys and the era in US history known as Camelot is a tragic one. As Pres

Vulture has analyzed the data of ten middle-aged leading men and the ages of the women they've wooed onscreen.

On Thursday afternoon, the FBI released photos and video of two persons of interest in the Boston Marathon bombing. According to FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers, authorities are looking for two men, who he labeled Suspect No.

After the invention of daguerrotype, the memorializing habits of people have changed: they've chosen the cheap, higher quality photographs instead of expensive and not so lifelike paintings.