The Guardians
Women of the African diaspora crowned with elaborate headpieces, celebrating might, independence, and heart.
Galleries
A collection of 422 issues
Natura Morta
Inspired by Old Master still lifes, Paulette Tavormina’s photographs lie in an uncanny valley of beauty—dew-dappled flowers combined with jumping goldfish.
Show Caves
Exploring the appeal of “show caves” around the world, from their breathtaking natural beauty to the variety of tourist grotesqueries.
Life in Blue
Portraits of leisure time and permanent parties in “the strange emptiness” of a Czech reservoir, close to the Austrian border.
Gia Condo
Thirteen “liberated, assertive, ferocious” takes on Da Vinci’s famous painting show us the Mona Lisa as never before seen.
America’s Other Audubon
Selections from the monumental but unknown “Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio,” an amateur’s attempt to illustrate the nests and eggs omitted from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America.”
Greece Today
Everyday scenes of Greece in paintings that evoke the quiet fatigue from living with economic uncertainty.
America Worked
Pictures of post-war America—views of factories, construction sites, and printing plants—drawn from the career of Ezra Stoller, one of the world’s first and best architectural photographers.
The Weaver’s Dance
Photos that meditate on the link between fabric and movement in India’s textile and dance traditions.
A Kiss Before You Go
Excerpts from an illustrated memoir of love and mourning after an artist loses his wife to a tragic accident.