Ansel Adams‘ son is suing the Fresno Metropolitan Museum to keep the museum from auctioning off six of his father’s prints, donated years ago.

Irving Penn (1917-2009) was a master craftsman of the photographic portrait. The clarity and precision he marshaled in his still life studies carried through his commercial and fashion work to an arguable acme in his …

Polaroid films provided instant satisfaction for anyone, with no photo skills. Some of the work of photo artists in Polaroid’s vast collection, such as Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Robert …

The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York announced plans to exhibit a major retrospective of Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great masters of photography.

Terry Gross has another fine interview; this time of singer/songwriter/poet Patti Smith. The incentive and drive for the interview is the memoir Patti Smith has published, Just Kids, recalling her life and times with famed …

Do not go to see the Man Ray exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City! 
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention is a dangerous show and may be permanently damaging to your …

I have to wonder if this Ansel Adams image has become the Mona Lisa of the ‘Photography World’?

Photographer Stephen Wilkes worked on images in the hospital complex at Ellis Island for five years. The infectious disease and psychiatric wings were his primary subjects.

Here and Now: National Geographic’s Paul Nicklin on KJZZ

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The Brooklyn Museum is exhibiting works by photographers of Rock & Roll with an emphasis on the photographers

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Edward Burtynsky’s stunning large format photographs, having social and political ramifications, are

Helmut Newton, master of erotic fashion photography, and his 394 photographs from the exotic photo book, SUMO, are the focus of The Helmut Newton Foundation’s show, SUMO.

Photographer Claudia Rogge, known for large scale photographs, is being represented in a one-person show at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Helen Levitt is known for her striking street photography of New York City from the 1930’s through the 1980’s.