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Juergen Teller: The Face, 1989

Model Emma Campbell: Caharel by Sarah Moon

Charlotte Rutherford

Ziggi Golding: Model card

Juergen Teller: Eternity campaign

For the past three decades, Ziggi Golding has set the bar for a standard of originality and creativity in the fine art and commercial photography worlds. She is devoted to cultivating talent and style within her roster of artists. As...

Central Studios & Fred Hess, Inner City Beauties, Atlantic City 1935

 
Kelty, E.J., Hunt's 3 Ring Circus 1921

 
Central Studios & Fred Hess, Inner City Beauties, Atlantic City 1935

W.M. Hunt is renovating his Upper Westside apartment. We stroll through the rooms, perusing the collection of art that exists in two dimensions and in three. Everything appears to be as he describes a photography collection to be: "I like pictures that are incredibly orderly and incredibly chaotic." This effect is echoed in the...

Photograph by Jody Culkin

Photo by Marcia Wilson/Widevision Photography

Photograph by Troy Johnson

Calvin Reid interviewing Junot Diaz, photograph by Jody Culkin

When I began my career as a book publicist, Calvin Reid was the first journalist I met in person. His warmth and wit, his disarming charm, and his knowledge of the...

It was a Saturday evening in May 2003. The place: Robert Evans Beverly Hills home and estate. The occasion: Brett Ratner's forthcoming book Hilhaven Lodge was being showcased during Book Expo America by powerHouse Books. The crowd included Jeff Bridges, Sean Combs, Ashton Kutcher, and Joel Grey. Patrick McMullan was taking photographs. Tanqueray martinis were being served. But all of that happened later in the evening—after the surprise guest had arrived.

As photographer Jim Jocoy remembers, “It was exciting from...

The New Yorker. Photograph by Enrico Bossan

The New Yorker: Office Wall

Goodbye Dinner With New Yorker Photographers. Photograph by Joseph M. McCarthy

We meet Elisabeth Biondi in her home in New York, the walls lined with photographs and books. At her feet is Boris, a charismatic companion of long fur and short legs who keeps himself entertained with a green ball and an unswerving dedication to play. As Ms. Biondi relaxes into a chair, it becomes evident that the life she has crafted in...

Stephen Mayes' partner Damon surveys Manhattan from the roof of their building, July 2010.

Pagetti senior races Stanmeyer junior at VII members' meeting, November 2010.

Medical selfie, January 2010.

VII members' meeting Massachusetts September 2011:
Joachim Ladefoged, Ron Haviv, Marcus Bleasdale, Ed Kashi.

A surreal moment at World Press Photo competition as
Mary Anne Golon leads the jury through the final...

David Gonzalez is a journalist at The New York Times. Currently the co-editor of the Lens blog, he also has a biweekly column titled “Side Street” that runs in the Metro Section. As a long-time member of the Metro desk, he frequently local issues affecting the city’s neighborhoods and explores how they reflect the larger social and cultural issues facing American society today.

Winner of a 20008 Distinguished Writing Award from the American...

Founded in 1960, the Miller Gallery is Cincinnati’s oldest art gallery. It began as a way to bring a love of art to the community. Laura Miller Gleason remembers, "My mom started the gallery when I was going off to kindergarten, and my father joined the gallery when I was nine. It's always been a part of my life. I remember going to the galley after school to do homework and when I learned how to cook, I took on managing the house. The gallery is...

With a tradition that extends back over 100 years, Gorenjski tisk storitve (GTS) is an internationally renowned Slovenian printing and binding company. Generations of masters in high-quality printing and finishing have left their mark on millions of books in...

Vince Aletti has a way with words, an ability to cast an image in your mind’s eye as he describes a moment caught forevermore, with the photographic precision of the medium about which he writes. Equal parts critic, reporter, and curator, Aletti’s prose is poetic, perceptive, and always a pleasure to read, beautifully complementing the experience of the photograph itself.

The photograph has had a special place in Aletti’s life dating back to his childhood. He recalls, “My father was a camera club...

Dustin Pittman began photographing the downtown New York fashion collective Hood by Air a year after they burst on the scene, sharpening the cutting edge, bringing together the realms of music, art, and style into a raw blend of city chic. Headed by Shayne Oliver, Hood by Air has become the one to watch, as everyone from the street to the front row are keeping an eye on...

Artist, activist, and author Clayton Patterson is the unofficial historian of New York’s Lower East Side. For over three decades he has lived in the neighborhood, establishing himself as fixture in the landscape that has been central to the development of New York’s underground scenes.

He moved to New York in 1979, where he began working as an artist, creating paintings, prints, photography, and sculpture. He had his first exhibition that same year at the...

Anton Perich is the underground, a man whose innovative brilliance shaped the course of American art for the last quarter of the twentieth century; he who invented the electric painting machine (an early predecessor to the inkjet printer) in 1977-1978 was also the man who introduced public access television (an early predecessor to reality TV) to New York City in 1973.

Born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Perich was in Paris from 1965-1970. He recalls,...

Arlene Gottfried is a force of nature, a whirlwind, a quiet storm of power, beauty, and strength. From her soul pours forth not only some of the most distinctive portraits but a voice... A voice that comes from deep, down inside the bone, from the marrow where blood is born and truth is known...

A voice that vibrates with a force that tells of a spirit that transcends...

Manhattan, New York - Circa 1977. Eliane's Sygma office, located on 322 West 72nd Street, with a wall of different covers of magazine. Photograph taken by JP Laffont.

Manhattan, New York - Circa 1980. Eliane Laffont at Sygma office, at 225 West 57st. Photograph by Douglas Kirkland.

Brooklyn, New York, the summer of 1966. The ghettos of Brooklyn and the Bronx are considered the most dangerous areas of NYC.

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