When Martin Parr was 14, a teacher described him in a school report as "utterly lazy and inattentive." The assessment couldn’t have been more wrong, or, perhaps, more telling. That same year, Parr ...

Margaret Bourke-White`s work appeared on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine in 1936; she was the only foreign photographer in Russia when the Germans attacked in 194l; and when she went on ...

Biographer Linda Gordon chronicles Morath's escape from Nazi Germany, her boundary-breaking career and her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. Biography Captures The Charisma And Confidence Of ...

A veteran Toronto art dealer hopes to reap the benefits of a new biography that appears to have solved most of the mysteries surrounding the family history of Vivian Maier, the Chicago nanny whose ...

'Avedon: Something Personal' by Norma Stevens and Steven M. L. Aronson A biography of the legendary fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon is due for international release in November, the ...

Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic ...

"I like to accept the way people present themselves," photographer Inge Morath said in a 1987 NPR interview. "You never know what you get. It's fascinating ... that's why I like to do portraits." ...

"I'm fascinated by the necessity of quick decisions," Inge Morath told me more than 30 years ago, when she came to NPR for an interview. Morath was in the business of quick decisions — as a ...