The crowd that filed into the International House at the University of Chicago already had books for signing, and their books were uniform and large: Pete Souza’s “Obama: An Intimate Portrait,” which ...

In the spring of 1975, Penny Wolin, a 21-year-old art student from Cheyenne, Wyo., moved into the storied St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood. The formerly upscale establishment, built in the 1920s, was by ...

Portrait photography is a great passion of mine. Ever since flicking through the photography books of great portrait photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Gordon Parks, and Arnold Newman, ...

Dignity, celebration, respect, joy. These were just some of the feelings photographer Robbie Lawrence wanted to capture in his work from Sierra Leone — a departure from the emotions we might ...

Nyango was the only confirmed Cross River gorilla in captivity in the world when Joel Sartore photographed her. Nyango died last year. “Researchers that work on these animals for years in the forest ...

WASHINGTON – When Herman Leonard began taking pictures at New York jazz clubs in the 1940s, he used two strobe lights because that’s all he could afford. He had a bulky 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera, ...

(CNN) — For the past decade, Hollywood A-listers, from actors to directors to studio executives, have sought out photographer Mark Seliger to take their portraits in the elaborate pop-up studio he ...

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When Sarah Stellino and her wife moved into their house in Madison, Stellino knew she wanted to build a darkroom. With help from friends, family members and Facebook Marketplace, she created a space ...