Carole Naggar

The Women of ‘LIFE’ Magazine

An exhibition now at the New York Historical Society features six women photographers who contributed to America’s first successful image-based magazine, and how these women’s work “contributed to LIFE’s pursuit of American identity through photojournalism.”

Guy Tillim's African Street Photography

Guy Tillim has photographed African cities where traces of historical periods—from colonialism to independence, socialism to global capitalism—coexist. Tillim has never believed that one frame can capture the essence of a situation. For him, all moments could be decisive.

Snapshots from Soviet Lithuania

Antanas Sutkus’s Planet Lithuania is one of the largest existing archives of life under Soviet rule, a record of simple, quiet resistance.

The Secret Streets of Brassaï & Louis Stettner

Both Brassaï and Louis Stettner succeeded in discovering the secrets of their chosen city, Paris. And for both photographers, the street was their teacher.

Photos to Change the World

It is impossible to separate Chim’s personal history from his development as a deeply empathetic photographer, attuned to the plight of displaced people, refugees, children, and all those at risk during armed conflicts.

Sally Mann’s Dark Diary of the South

Sally Mann’s photographs demonstrate that beauty can exist in the ruins of a destroyed building, a landscape overgrown with weeds, a familiar body made foreign by illness.

Willy Ronis’s Paris

In France, Willy Ronis’s photography is much loved, with its focus on ordinary people and ordinary life, its sense of humanity, empathy, and grace.

Ralph Gibson’s Stream of Consciousness

Like a child who creates a medieval castle from a cardboard box, photographer Ralph Gibson uses humble, everyday subjects—a pen, a shoe, a glass, a spoon, a mirror, a chair—to create dramatic and cinematic scenes.