Henri Cartier-Bresson

Eve Arnold dies at 99; pioneering photojournalist

2012-01-06 00:00:00

Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of Hollywood celebrities, has died. She was 99. Arnold died...

Dorothea Tanning dies at 101; artist and poet married Max Ernst

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century who included Pablo Picasso, John Cage and Joseph Cornell. She designed sets for George Balanchine ballets, played romantic matchmaker for poet Andre...

The undiscovered street photography of Vivian Maier

2012-01-07 16:33:11

Trees branch out at the Getty

2011-02-19 16:32:51

Gift guide: Coffee-table books with heft

2010-12-22 00:00:00

Still searching for that perfect gift for your brother-in-law or a persnickety client? Coffee-table books might fit the bill, what with that suitable heft and an undeniable quotient of cool. Here we offer a few last-minute selections for those gaps on...

Art review: 'Fazal Sheikh: Beloved Daughters' at the Museum of Photographic Arts

2009-11-06 16:32:40

Need a knockout photo? They're game

2009-11-15 00:00:00

It remains the most famous sports action photograph of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali looms over Sonny Liston, whose arms are splayed, before Ali retains the heavyweight championship in 1965. Longtime Sports Illustrated photographer Neil Leifer snapped...

Magnum Photos Collection opens to the public

2010-06-18 16:33:01

PASSINGS: Willy Ronis, Dorothy Wellman, Guy Graham Babylon

2009-09-19 00:00:00

Willy Ronis French postwar photographer Willy Ronis, 99, the last of France's postwar greats of photography who captured the essence of Paris in black-and-white scenes of everyday life, died Sept. 12 at a Paris hospital, said Stephane Ledoux,...

Dispatch from New York: Henri Cartier-Bresson at MoMA

2010-04-07 21:32:50

What My Photos Never Capture

2005-10-16 00:00:00

"Wide angle: National Geographic Greatest Places" landed with a splintering thud on my desk this week, a six-pound collection of travel photography that, you might say, does for the Amazon what Helmut Newton's "Sumo" did for Amazon women. Amateur...

Need to know

2008-02-24 00:00:00

Hotel through blue-colored glass Inside a cool, blue glass tower that soars 32 stories above San Francisco, an InterContinental hotel is getting ready to open Thursday in the South of Market district. Besides 550 rooms, the InterContinental San...

Henri Cartier-Bresson used his Leica camera to capture decisive moments in everyday lives.

2004-08-04 11:34:15

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French pioneer of photojournalism whose pictures defined the mid-20th century and inspired generations of photographers, died on Aug. 4 at age 95.

2004-08-04 11:25:06

Henry Cartier-Bresson is pictured in this file photo from September 1989. The Publicity-shy French photographer was a founding member of the Magnum picture agency in 1947.

2004-08-04 11:16:00