Photography and society

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.

In the early 1900s, Seattle-based photographer Edward S

On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming ...

As more people post naked pics of exes, the law has failed to keep up. Some activists are trying to change that

When photographer Jenn Ackerman spent her first day at the Kentucky State Reformatory for what would become the series “Trapped,” she knew she had no choice but to photograph the images in black-and-white.

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

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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?

From 19th century daguerrotypes to photos of Martin Luther King Jr., some of photography's history goes online

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News as we know it is poised to change, and it's in the hands of smartphone users. On March 31, the New York Times ran a photo of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez t...

Violence is the second leading cause of death among children and the youth in the United States today, a statistic Chicago-raised photographer Carlos Javier says he doesn't need to be told to know for himself.