Photo Essays

‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of a Spree Killer, 1951
The story of the American mass murderer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook — who killed six people, including an entire family of five, during a terrifying three-week spree...

Georgia O’Keeffe: Invincible
Very few major American artists have ever been as productive, for so long, in so many mediums, as Georgia O’Keeffe was during her extraordinary career. From her...

Wildfires Burn in New Mexico and Arizona
Firefighters battle flames across the Arizona border into New Mexico

James Dean: Original Rebel
So much has been written about James Dean, and his influence looms so large over movies and over popular cultural in general, that it’s always jarring to be...

After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors
On July 16, 1945, the Atomic Age was born when a device with an explosive “yield” roughly equal to 20 tons of TNT was detonated in the desert of southeastern New...


