Photography

December 3, 2016

#1LookADay: All the City’s a Stage

High on the wall of a brick building in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, a jaunty terra cotta troubadour forever plays his accordion and opens […]
October 19, 2016

Cultural Studies: During a Social Media Break, Kim Kardashian West Offers ‘More Me’

The publication of the new, expanded edition of Kim Kardashian West’s 2015 book of self-portraits, “Selfish,” comes at an unusual moment for the reality star. Following […]
October 5, 2016

A Head-Shot Truck Comes to New York

On a recent afternoon in Hell’s Kitchen, a pink and orange Chevrolet Stepvan, pulled up to the curb. It looked suspiciously like a food truck peddling […]
August 18, 2016

Africa Takes Its Turn on the Runway

It was a fashion show that stopped traffic. On one of the largest cable bridges in southern Africa, hundreds of the fashion elite had gathered around […]
July 1, 2016

‘Child, I Trust You’: On Deadline With Bill Cunningham

On Fridays at 10 a.m., we heard his voice before we saw the flash of his bright blue jacket. Bill was hard of hearing and always […]
June 27, 2016

Bill Cunningham Looked for Subjects. And They Looked for Him.

Bill Cunningham worked as discreetly as he could. “My whole thing is to be invisible,” he wrote in 2002. “You get more natural pictures that way, […]
June 26, 2016

What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham

This article was first published in 2002. He calls grown-up women child, and his coterie of young friends muffin. Bill Cunningham has been a habitual presence […]
June 26, 2016

Bill Cunningham on Bill Cunningham

This article was first published in 2002. The author, a longtime Times photographer, died on Saturday. I STARTED photographing people on the street during World War […]
June 23, 2016

Spotlight: Franco Pagetti Returns to Fashion Photography

Franco Pagetti is one of the most seasoned, accomplished war photographers of his generation, so he was a bit skeptical when Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian […]
May 14, 2016

Gisele Inc.

By GUY TREBAY May 14, 2016 “My career was never based on pretty,” one of the world’s most beautiful women was saying recently, straining a listener’s credulity. The […]