Old and on Their Own
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 women and men over seventy-five years...
View ArticleHelen Levitt: Mexico City
Helen Levitt, winner of the 1997 International Center of Photography’s Master of Photography Infinity Award, visited Mexico City in 1941. This collection of images from that visit (most never before...
View ArticleThe Youngest Parents
These teenage parents are black, white, Hispanic; city dwellers and residents of small towns; rich and poor. Prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert Coles asks us to shed...
View ArticleVietnam: A Book of Changes
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 pastoral idyll other photographers have...
View ArticleThe Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy’s death in 1990. Their letters...
View Article25 and Under/Photographers
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 illuminating and sometimes startling look at how...
View ArticleFound in Brooklyn
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 of white cement, of the merging of old...
View ArticleI Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket
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 Wendy Ewald lived and taught twenty of...
View ArticleEl Salvador
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 beauty people grieve and move on; women...
View ArticleLovie
From 1950 until 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a...
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