What are the names that pop to mind when you think of '80s rap? The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL Cool J—all essential hip-hop artists, all signed to Def Jam Records. Half oral history, half photo portfolio, the coffee-table book Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label sketches out the tales of a record label that became one of the greatest forces in American pop culture.
A new website, Friends of Anton, launches in an effort to raise money for Anton Hammerl, a freelance photographer who was killed while covering the Libyan revolution.
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, photographer Mitch Dobrowner reflects on capturing another incredible phenomenon of nature—massive super-cell thunderstorms.
Yuri Kozyrev is known best for his photographs of conflict, but the one photograph he’s taken that may have had the most impact is not of a battle, but of a badly burned 12-year-old boy lying in a Baghdad hospital bed, the victim of a misdirected allied bomb during the Iraq war. TIME revisits the story of Ali Abbas.
TIME contract photographer Marco Grob shares an intimate look into the making of the portraits and oral histories that comprise TIME's Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience.
Joel Meyerowitz sat down for an interview with TIME after his most recent shoot for our Commemorative 9/11 issue to reflect on a decade of documenting Ground Zero.
This week; The tribute lights rise above Manhattan on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, images from an Afghanistan observation post, Texas wildfires, North Korea's special economic zone, hostage rescue in Australia, starvation in Somalia, plane crash kills top Russian ice hockey team, the Ganesh Chaturti Festival, Mexican bodybuilders, and elephant polo.
A one-day exclusive presentation of TIME: VOICES OF 9/11, a new documentary produced by TIME Magazine, the stories of men and women whose lives changed forever on September 11, 2001. These free screenings commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Despite being only 17-years-old, Olivia Bee has already attracted top clients with her intimate and poetic vision of teenage life. TIME asked 15-year-old fashion blogging phenomenon Tavi Gevinson to interview her about her life and art.
