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Meet Photographer David Mushegain, Fashion’s Man on the Street
Not all Parisians have decamped to sun-kissed California yet; and it’s a good thing, too, because today Los Angeles is being delivered to the City of Light care of David Mushegain, a photographer and...
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Instagram Stars Share the Secrets to Taking Amazing Photos
Want to take your Instagram feed to the next level? Or just want to snap better vacation pictures? We reached out to some of our favorite ’grammers to get their secrets. But don’t worry—while they...
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With Garry Winogrand as His Copilot, Mark Steinmetz Photographed 1980s Los...
It was the summer of 1983. Mark Steinmetz, then 21, dropped out of Yale art school and headed, on a bit of a whim, to California. He’d grown up in the Northeast. He thought he might like to work in...
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Mapplethorpe Mania Hits Los Angeles
In 1988, 41-year-old Robert Mapplethorpe had two major museum shows: First, in New York, there was the Whitney’s blockbuster retrospective “Robert Mapplethorpe.” Several months later, the Institute of...
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Postcard From Nacho: Inside the Santiago Home of Poet Pablo Neruda
I was an avid reader growing up. As a child, I would thoroughly read anything I had within reach, but mostly novels: Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Ende, and some more childish titles. When...
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Annie Leibovitz’s “Women: New Portraits” Opens in San Francisco
Now that Annie Leibovitz’s traveling exhibition, “Women: New Portraits,” has begun its tour around the globe, opening first in London then next in Tokyo, Vogue and UBS celebrated the U.S. opening in...
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Where ikinga Rules the Road: Photographs of Burundi’s Vibrant Bike Culture
Near the end of 2013, photographer Stephan Würth was on assignment shooting portraits of people in a hospice in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, and allowed himself a couple extra days to drive...
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All the Cool Girls Are Using Polaroids Again
How’s this for meta? The new hot trend among models is to Instagram their Polaroids. Remember Polaroids? You know, the Outkast-inspiring instant film that develops in a minute or two, creating a hazy,...
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The Strange, Accidental Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
A little desert props itself up on a pair of carpet scraps in a beige driveway, reflecting a not-so-distant mystic universe. A perfect circle of cloudy blue sky lands in the midst of an ordinary green...
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Vogue’s Guide to Spring’s Best Photo Books
In spring’s best photography books, Pamela Littky surveys one of Hollywood’s most storied apartment buildings, Nick Waplington offers a candid glimpse into the glamorous world of Isaac Mizrahi’s...
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When Photographers Cook: ’70s-Era Images and Recipes From Richard Avedon and...
Expand Photo: Courtesy of aperture Not all of the photographers asked in 1977 to contribute recipes to a cookbook project were as at home in the kitchen as in the darkroom—“I eat out,” came John...
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Why Are All the Fashion Photographers Directing Music Videos?
As a creative medium, music videos occupy an odd space between commercial and short film. These days, music videos exist largely to serve the dual roles of generating Vevo views and packaging artists...
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7 Questions for an Accidental Pioneer of Street Style Photography
Long before “street style” as we now know it, photographer Jamel Shabazz’s pictures captured a vital slice of urban life, of ’80s New York pre-Broken Windows. His prodigious, matter-of-fact photos are...
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Fashion’s Favorite Young Photographer Jamie Hawkesworth Gets a New York Show
“A Short, Pleasurable Journey: 51 Photographs by Jamie Hawkesworth” opens at the Red Hook Labs gallery in Brooklyn this Friday, April 15. I don’t want to sound like I’m overemphasizing this, but, if...
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Remembering Malick Sidibé, Who Photographed the Look of a Changing West Africa
Over the past year, the photographs of Malick Sidibé, the famous documentarian of youth culture and style in postcolonial Mali, have been having a striking revival in art and in fashion. Solo and...
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The Kennedy Family Wedding Photographer Shares His Most Iconic Images and the...
It was completely happenstance, the moment that photographer Denis Reggie met Ethel Kennedy and her daughter Courtney in February 1980. He was in his hometown of New Orleans on assignment for a local...
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Hockney Reveals the Artist Through His Art
One of the first shots of Randall Wright’s documentary Hockney, which premieres theatrically in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow, is a vintage video clip of the great British Pop artist reclining in...
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How Sarah Moon’s Photographs Took Fashion to the Astral Plane
Sarah Moon, fashion photographer, offered images as far from conventional fashion as you could possibly imagine, which is maybe why growing up I loved her pictures so much. Her blurry, spacey,...
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Edward Mapplethorpe’s Book of Baby Photography, One, Is Anything But Cute
We’ve all seen those newborn photo shoots before. You know, the ones in which a tiny naked infant is smiling inside a flowerpot or sleeping serenely on a furry white rug. But in Edward Mapplethorpe’s...
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In Nigeria, Does the Hat Make the Man? A New Photo Series Poses the Question
The idea that you can tell a man by his shoes might hold sway in New York or Los Angeles. But take a stroll along the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, and you’ll find that hats and not shoes are the mark of...
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