portraiture

Avedon's Animal Side

By Alexandra Genova

Annie Leibovitz on Photographing Stephen Hawking

By Alexandra Genova

Fair Faced

The Story Behind the TIME 100 Covers

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The Creative Women of Los Angeles

Brinson + Banks celebrates the wealth of female talent in Los Angeles

By Alexandra Genova

'When I Sing, the Bad Memories Disappear'

By Aryn Baker | Photographs by Platon Heroes often come from the most unlikely of places. Photographer Platon, known for his unflinching close-up portraits of presidents, dictators and other powerful icons of our era, found...

Photographing Money, People and Politics

Marco Grob's latest book features years of portraits of celebrities, politicians and innovators

By Bianca Silva

These Men Are Harvesting Wine From Namibia's Palm Trees

Photographer Kyle Weeks worked with members of the Himba people to create these portraits

By Alexandra Genova

A Photographic Portrait of Britain Takes to the Streets. And the Ad Screens

Together, these portraits present the beating heart of Great Britain.

By Alexandra Genova

Shortlist for National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Prize Announced

The winner will be revealed on November 15

By Alexandra Genova

The Faces of Syria's Child Refugees

Muhammed Muheisen captured portraits of displaced young people living in tent camps near Mafraq, in Jordan, a country that has taken more than 640,000 refugees.

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These Are the Faces of Egypt’s Revolutionaries

As the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Square uprising approaches

By Rachel Lowry

Ways of Seeing: Portrait Series

As 2014 draws to a close, we take a look back at the photographic trends that defined 2014

By Phil Bicker

#LightBoxFF: Jeff Riedel's Instagram Anachronism

Photographer Jeff Reidel has used Polaroid photos to test and fine-tune his images for over a decade. Now, those Polaroids are making their way to his Instagram feed, providing a glimpse into his process and the changing meaning of 'instant photography'

By Natalie Matutschovsky

Donigan Cumming's Photography of the Absurd

"Books on Books 19" by Errata Editions revisits Donigan Cumming's baffling, provocative, hilarious and rarely seen 1991 monograph, "The Stage."

By Eugene Reznik

Salton Sea: An Italian Photographer Documents a Surreal American Oasis

Italian photographer Nicholas Albrecht only expected to visit the Salton Sea for a few days, instead he stayed 10-months. His photographs document his personal experience of this isolated region in the Southern California desert.

By Alissa Ambrose

Hiding Africa: Jackie Nickerson’s Portraits of Laborers

Shot in a half-dozen countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Jackie Nickerson's new work reveals — or rather, disguises — farm workers in surprising new ways.

By Myles Little

Out From Under the Volcano: A Photographer's Impressions From Iceland

When the volcano Eldfell erupted on a January morning in 1973, nearly all of the 5,000 some residents who shared an island with it off the southern coat of Iceland fled. Forty years later, photographer Sabine Mirlesse was struck by the stories of the town lost and those later found beneath the ash. Those stories inspired much of her new book, “As if it should have been a quarry.”

By Noah Rayman

Iranian Censorship as Art: Portraits of Absence by Phillip Toledano

Sourced from censored images of women on product packaging found on store shelves in Iran, Toledano's series highlights the absurdity of the attempt on behalf of state and religious authorities to black out, with marker in hand, one half of humanity.

By Eugene Reznik

When Age Produces Beauty: Photographs of Legends at Work

TIME commissioned Eugene Richards to photograph prominent American artists who are in their 80s or about to arrive there. What follows are pictures from eight of those encounters in the studios, homes and galleries of John Baldessari, Mark di Suvero, Robert Frank, Robert Irwin, Alex Katz, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar and Wayne Thiebaud.

By Richard Lacayo
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