photography

A Taliban mullah speaks to a crowd in central Kabul in early October 1996.

World News

The Intense Images Of Afghanistan's Long And 'Distant War'

2:42pm October 28, 2015

by Hannah Bloch

Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has been documenting Afghanistan since 1988. A retrospective in Kabul from his book, A Distant War, takes his photos back to the country where he made them.

General Grant at City Point, created circa 1902

National

A Very Weird Photo Of Ulysses S. Grant

2:23pm October 27, 2015

by Linton Weeks

More than 80 years before Photoshop was introduced, a clever photographer doctored this picture — and tampered with history.

"A photo of me once hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sixteen inches high."

Books
Arts

In 10,000 Snaps Of The Shutter, A 'Photographic Census' Of A City

7:13pm October 24, 2015

by NPR Staff

Brandon Stanton left a life in finance for an entirely different quest: to snap the portraits of 10,000 people. The project eventually became Humans of New York, a blog and the basis for two books.

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Jockeys ride wooden plows in the traditional sport of buffalo racing in Bali.

The Richness Of 'Poor' Places, From National Geographic's Photo Contest

1:41pm October 19, 2015

by Malaka Gharib

The pictures capture racing buffalo in Bali, climbing kids in Burkina Faso and high-wire electricians in Bangladesh.

This 4-inch-by-5-inch tintype depicts Billy the Kid and several members of his gang, The Regulators, playing croquet in 1878. Billy is fourth from the left.

National

$2 Photo Found At Junk Store Has Billy The Kid In It, Could Be Worth $5M

7:02am October 16, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

The 4-inch-by-5-inch tintype depicts Billy the Kid playing croquet in the summer of 1878. The only other known photo of the outlaw was taken in 1880 and sold for $2.3 million in 2010.

A video still from a Save the Children television fundraising advertisement.

At What Point Does A Fundraising Ad Go Too Far?

4:31pm October 05, 2015

by Malaka Gharib

Images of the "starving child" were popular in 1980s campaigns. Critics didn't like the depiction of the developing world as a place of helpless victims. Such ads faded away, but now they're back.

Arts

With Her Camera, MacArthur 'Genius' Tells An African-American Rust Belt Story

7:09pm September 29, 2015

by NPR Staff

Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier is the third generation of her family to grow up in Braddock, Pa. For years, she says, African-American contributions to the town have been "overlooked and ignored."

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A photo from 1875 in Rio de Janeiro shows women street sellers called "quitandeiras," also known as "slaves who earn." A portion of the profits was returned to their masters.

Brazil Enslaved

2:30pm September 23, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Slavery in Brazil lasted until 1888, longer than anywhere in the Americas. Its final years coincided with the rise of photography. A vast archive of images sheds light on the lives of enslaved women.

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Pop icon and former Beatle Ringo Starr poses for the media in front of some of his photographs as he launches a book, Photograph, in London on Wednesday.

Ringo Starr Cleaning House, Will Auction Beatles 'Stuff' For Charity

4:18pm September 14, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Fab Four drummer is putting an original pressing of the White Album, a guitar once owned by John Lennon and one of his own Ludwig Oyster drum kits on the block.

"Oh, look! There's a donkey in my living room!!!" was the photographer's Instagram caption.

The Powerful Photos That Rocked Getty Images' First Instagram Grant

10:11am September 14, 2015

by Malaka Gharib

For many photojournalists, Instagram has become a "modern-day Polaroid camera" used to take quick snapshots of important issues — and visual media giants have taken notice.