Paul Kwilecki was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, in 1928 and died there in 2009. In between, he raised a family, ran the family’s hardware store, and taught...

In 1942, Bill Manbo and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there,...

“Death Row differs from all other prisons in this one regard: it is the one prison in which everything happens outside of official time. Every other prisoner...

Wendy Ewald, Katherine Hyde, and Lisa Lord share their perspectives as an artist, a sociologist, and a teacher to build on students’ own ideas and experiences in...

These powerful and arresting color photographs, taken over a six-year period through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles, capture the desolation...

Jim Dow’s America is a land we both know and don't know. His photographs show a country always reinventing itself, discarding and preserving elements of its past,...

The Center for Documentary Studies’ first e-book is for anyone who wants to make a watchable short documentary using a consumer camcorder, digital SLR camera, or...

Reality Radio celebrates today’s best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United...

These stunning platinum prints of women bathers in Budapest and Istanbul take us inside spaces intimate and public, austere and sensuous. Over a period of eight...

In 1957, Eugene Smith walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and children—to...

These photographs reflect the world as seen through young but sophisticated eyes—the devastation from Katrina; the battle-weary soldiers and civilian casualties...

Danny Wilcox Frazier’s dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail,...

Like his mentor, Walker Evans, who photographed Cuba in 1933 at a pivotal political moment, Harris arrived in Cuba with his camera at a crossroads in Cuban...

The surreal intersection of suburbia and desert in California, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado, where sprawling suburbs are reconfiguring what was once vast unpopulated...

We Skate Hardcore reveals the determination, the dreams, and the rough and tumble story of urban youth coming of age in New York. Vincent Cianni spent eight years...

Illuminating and sometimes startling, this collection introduces work by an emerging generation of photographers at the start of their careers. These talented...

Greg MacGregor followed the rivers west and like Lewis and Clark, he found a country “transformed by generations of human habitation.” In photographs that range...

A mesmerizing series of photographs of prairie fires that transport us from moments of almost apocalyptic splendor to the stillness of near abstraction. For nearly...

The story of one Appalachian community told through photographs, words, and music. Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of Dellie Norton and the...

In 1955, having just ended his high-profile but stormy career with Life magazine by resigning, W. Eugene Smith was commissioned to spend three weeks in Pittsburgh...

Wendy Ewald has worked with children around the world, using photography to enable them to express what they think and feel, even on difficult subjects like their...

This groundbreaking sequel to Remembering Slavery is an extraordinary opportunity to read and hear the voices of men and women from all walks of life who tell, in...

In this stunningly designed and printed retrospective book, Ewald leads you into a world that is as eerie, haunting and threatening as it is joyous and...

Photography and first-person narratives celebrate the remarkable people who, against staggering odds, are overcoming social, economic, and personal differences to...

William Gedney died in 1989 at the age of 56. He left behind a lifetime of photographic work, most of it unknown outside of a few colleagues and curators, John...

When Peter Brown began to photograph the Great Plains, he started a journey that would take him over a dozen years and many thousands of miles to complete....

Closing explores the meaning of work—what it means when you have it, what it means when you do not. The story of the White Furniture Company—a century-old,...

These stories—selected from an extensive nationwide search—offer a glimpse of our world through the eyes of fourteen American writers twenty-five years old...

A New Life combines the best contemporary writers of southern fiction with eye-opening new work from outstanding southern photographers to make a rich and complex...

In these haunting images, we see a world in which everyone becomes a combatant and every place a war zone. Yet amid the brutality and death there is a harsh...

Helen Levitt, winner of the 1997 International Center of Photography’s Master of Photography Infinity Award, visited Mexico City in 1941. This collection of...

We all want to live to a ripe old age, but what will it feel like when we get there? Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Coles celebrates the continued independence of...

These teenage parents are black, white, Hispanic; city dwellers and residents of small towns; rich and poor. Prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer...

This compelling and poetic photographic odyssey reveals a complicated country few Americans have ever seen. This is not a document about the war, nor is it the...

In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until...

Published in 1996, this is the first book in a series featuring photographs from people twenty-five years of age and younger. 25 and Under provides an...

Brooklyn is often thought of as a world of its own. For the photographer Thomas Roma, Brooklyn is the place of his boyhood, a place of lush gardens and expanses...

This unique book of photographs and stories takes place in the 2,000-year-old village of Vichya in the desert of Gujarati, India. There, photographer and teacher...