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Photo Essay

Happy 80th Birthday, Nina Simone: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer

On what would have been Nina Simone's 80th birthday, LightBox celebrates her life and her legacy with a series of Alfred Wertheimer's magnificent, intimate portraits of the star.

Image: Winterland, February 1968
Photo Essay

Happy 70th Birthday, Jimi Hendrix: Photos of an Incendiary Talent

On what would have been his 70th birthday, LightBox pays tribute to the guitar wizard through photos made by another iconoclastic creative force, the rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall.

Henry Peach Robinson/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Out There

‘Faking It’: Old-School Photo Trickery at the Met

A new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights a long history of faked and manipulated images.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Willard Van Dyke
Out There

‘American Photographs’ by Walker Evans

The 75th anniversary edition of Walker Evans' American Photographs, published by the Museum of Modern Art, reinforces the power and mastery of the legendary photographer's work.

Larry Burrows—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Out There

Three War Photographers: Feel Fear, Keep Going

On Memorial Day, we look back at a video created to honor three recipients of Time Inc's prestigious Briton Hadden Lifetime Achievement Award last year for their incredible dedication to war photography.