Edward Steichen

BOOKS Well, if you can't go to the best parties, you can look at the pictures. "Vanity Fair Portraits, A Century of Iconic Images" (Abrams, $65) is a collection by the magazine's editor, Graydon Carter, of some of the iconic celebrity shots from its...

A new exhibit of more than 120 artworks exploring the human form and the human condition opens Saturday and runs through Oct. 19 at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center. Inspired by the landmark 1955 photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen for the...

Gardeners are innate timekeepers who clock hours by the tilt of the sun and days by the life of a bud and flower. Months are marked by the spin of the moon, seasons by the length of day, and years by the girth of once-tiny trees. Despite such acuity,...

They were more than mere kings -- they were gods. For the ancient Maya, living in what is present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize, their rulers were the ones who ensured order in the cosmos; who embodied the divine and carried out...

About 25 years ago the Museum of Contemporary Art hosted a traveling exhibition of fashion photographs that gave notice the handwriting was on the wall: Thenceforth, every kind of photograph, regardless of its artistic qualities, was fair game for display...

An exhibition as powerful as it is overdue is "American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh," the master lensman's first full-scale retrospective that begins a four-city tour at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before his death at age 59 in 1983,...