No photographer would ever get as close to Elvis as Alfred Wertheimer. His intimate photographs of the young, rising star reveal a carefree and innocent time before he became a cultural icon. On the publication of Taschen’s new book, Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll, TIME met with Wertheimer to reminisce about the days and nights he spent with the rocker on the cusp of unfathomable fame.
The beautifully crafted photographs in Philip Treacy by Kevin Davies are born of a close collaboration and friendship between a photographer and his subject — and a decades-long gestation process.
One year ago, LightBox published Rachel Hulin’s series of whimsical photographs of her son, Henry, magically flying. Now, a new children’s book captures all of his Henry’s adventures.
TIME contract photographer Christopher Morris sought to make an anthropological study of America—not for this week, or for this past election cycle—but a body of work that future generations could look back on to get a sense of the country’s mood.
A new book looks back at decades of collaborative work by artists Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.
The work of Berenice Abbott, who photographed Depression-era New York, is featured in a new exhibition at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario and an accompanying book.
Rebecca Norris Webb describes the geography of loss captured in her new book, My Dakota.
If the last lines of the 20th century were written in Moscow in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the prelude to the 21st century was written months later—and 20 years ago this month—in Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo.
When the Cuban government cracked down on Ernesto Bazan’s practice of teaching in 2006, the photographer turned to his students for help publishing his images.
A new limited edition collection published this week documents last summer’s road trip taken by Magnum photographers Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Alec Soth and Mikhael Subotzky and writer Ginger Strand.
