Today I received a text from my best friend, who had just received the latest print issue of Psychology Today. She was put off by the cover image—it promotes an article on toxic behavior—and wanted a second opinion. So without further ado, here it is: wow, Psychology Today, this photograph is repugnantly sexist! So…
On August 14, 1945, 21-year-old dental assistant Greta Zimmer Friedman joined a rejoicing crowd in New York City’s Time Square to celebrate the end of World War II. Shortly thereafter, sailor George Mendonsa approached and, with great theatrics, kissed her on her lips. Alfred Eisenstaedt caught the moment with his…
Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the Russian feminist activists who was jailed in 2012 for protesting Putin as a member of Pussy Riot, is backtracking on her photo shoot with Terry Richardson, saying she was unaware of his past when she and her husband agreed to be photographed.
Earlier this year, Beyoncé got in some hot water when the full-degree of her control freakness was revealed to the world as some unflattering photos of her performing at the Super Bowl were made available by the Associated Press and published on the internet. She then had someone on her team request that they be…
If you've never seen the work of Bill Gekas, you're in for a treat: The Australian photographer creates gorgeous images that look like classic works of art. The beautiful model is none other than his daughter, Athena, who is now 5 years old.
Photographer Tim Mantoani released a photo book of photographers holding their most famous photographs. That's it, I've seen it all. Photographs of photographers!? Get a rope. Anyway, many of them are special and stunning, and there's lots of cool celebrity shots, and one of Mandela that gave me the chills.…
The ol' Photo Booth portrait phase is a well-documented phenomenon for those of us who were in college within the last five years or so. Regrettably, in some cases, Duckface Was Made. And once in awhile, in awe of the sheer novelty (Sepia! Pop art! So many effects!) we even posted them to Facebook.
I can't decide what I love the most about the Unbaby Me app for Facebook that cock-blocks baby photos for the baby-averse among us: That someone out there actually thinks there are fine-haired distinctions to be made about the pap everybody posts on Facebook, or that the inventors of the app — Millennials, no less —…
Gary Giordano (pictured, left) is being held in Aruba in connection with the disappearance of his traveling companion Robyn Gardner. Yesterday, we learned that he'd taken out a $1.5 million insurance policy on her prior to her death. Now it turns out that he may have had a camera containing nude pictures of her —…
As a teen, my bedroom served as a canvas of self-expression: magazine cut-outs of my favorite actors and actresses, posters of my favorite bands and movies, and photos of friends covering every inch of free wall space. Photographer Rania Matar's series "A Girl And Her Room" features images of teenage girls in their…
The year was 1944. An orphaned squirrel was adopted by a family and named Tommy Tucker. The lady of the house decided to dress Tommy in specially-made ensembles; Life documented the critter in photographs. Additional images after the jump.
TMZ's gallery called "Celebrity Beach Bods — Zooma Zoom Zoom!" consists of celebrities in swimsuits — and a new "zoom" feature that allows the viewer to get all up in a star's business.
This photograph, of a young, screaming girl running through the streets, her skin burning from napalm, has become one of the most iconic images from the Vietnam War. Recently, the subject of the photo spoke out about her long recovery.
Katherine McIntosh is the four-year-old girl in this iconic, Depression era Dorothea Lange photograph, and she says her mother, Florence Owens Thompson, was ashamed that the family's destitution was publicized. McIntosh, now 77, tells CNN, "[Lange] asked my mother if she could take her picture — that ... her name…
