For Brooklyn-based photographer Amy Touchette, the single act of noticing strangers in the most populous city in the U.S. has become a slight obsession—and the focal point for her latest exhibition, Street Dailies, on view at the Max Fish bar and gallery space in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. — view the entire gallery here
Portrait of an Epidemic: The Front Lines of Ebola in Liberia
Getty photographer John Moore has been documenting the heartbreaking front lines of the Ebola epidemic for months - view the entire gallery here.
For eight years, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado captured the natural beauty of the world and traditional ways of life in what he calls his “love letter to the planet.” Click here to see more.
America's Fading Main Street
"I consider the Main Street project a reflection on what we've lost as a culture and nation. More than just a physical location, Main Street represents a state of mind, a civility and decency that has gone missing in the United States, replaced by a soulless existence of big commerce where we're pushed to buy ever more things but interact with others around us less intimately, if at all."—Jake Price This piece was supported and produced by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism about inequality. Click here to see more photos.
New York Fashion Week Street Style
Fashion week is all about showing off your style...and not just on the runway. As the shows wind down and New York’s Fashion Week hangover starts to kick in, The Daily Beast spent the day filming the last of this season’s street style. From the refined attire at Lincoln Center to the avant-garde dress downtown, we spotted many of the big 2014 trends.
Seeing Double: Doppelgangers from Around the World
Since 2000, photographer François Brunelle has been finding complete strangers—often continents apart—who look eerily similar and bringing them together as part of his I'm Not a Look-Alike series. See photos of some of his doppelgänger pairs.
Most of us consume our pizzas too quickly to truly appreciate their beauty. But one California-based filmmaker and photographer, Jonpaul Douglass, is taking pizza out of the box and into the wilderness of Los Angeles. Using his iPhone, Douglass has been capturing Ninja Turtle-esque pies since November 2013, when he was inspired by a graffiti tag of a pepperoni pizza, posting a photo of it to his Instagram with the caption, “#pizza the universal symbol of happiness.” Ever since, Jonpaul has been delighting us with his playful pizzagrams, shining his camera on pies “from the world’s finest pizza establishment, Little Caesars.” At only $5 a pop, he can afford to put pizza just about anywhere, and he’s been known to keep a pie or two in the trunk of his car in case he’s struck with inspiration to shoot. As the expert in everyone’s favorite comfort food, we had to ask: deep dish or thin crust? While we all enjoy a good deep dish, Douglass agrees, New York-style thin crust will always reign supreme. But as far as West Coast pizza goes, he reccomends Pizzanista! in downtown LA.
Baseball's Legends Of The Spring: Vintage Photos From Spring Training
Is there a more glorious set of words than pitchers and catcher report? For more than a century, the Boys of Summer have flocked to sunny spots to get ready for the coming season. Here, a look at some of the game's greatest players—from Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to Roger Maris and Hank Aaron—tuning up in spring training in the weeks before Opening Day.
Awesome Australia: The View From Above
Need we even tell you how beautiful Australia is? These aerial photographs by David Grey, of Reuters, don't just confirm what we already know—they go above and beyond. The continent's natural wonders and dazzling, colorful landscapes are otherworldly.
A Most Fashionable Paris: Kevin Tachman Shoots Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2014
Between Nicolas Ghesquière’s debut collection for Louis Vuitton and Kendall Jenner strutting down the runway at Givenchy, Paris Fashion Week was just as crazy as ever. The collections were dominated by furry separates, oversized outerwear, and a plethora of leather goods that highlighted the craftsmanship and design strength that makes Paris the fashion capital of the world. The Daily Beast’s veteran photographer, Kevin Tachman, was there to capture all of the magic behind the scenes, as well as on the runway. From the fringed hats at Lanvin to the vibrant patterns at Kenzo, see Tachman’s highlights from Paris Fashion Week.
2013: The Year in Photos
This is the year we caught our first glimpse of the royal baby, spied on Putin in the deep sea, watched Hillary get grilled on the Hill, and so much more. Relive the year in pictures.
Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has been covering Afghanistan since 1988, when the mujahideen were fighting to expel Soviet troops. In Afghanistan: A Distant War, his images tell the stories of military leaders, the Taliban, ordinary citizens, and American soldiers who are only the latest in a long line of occupying forces, most of whom withdrew unhappily. Many of Nickelsberg's photographs show important events or military action, but some of the most affecting portray nothing more than Aghan people trying to get on with their lives.
Click here to see additional images. All images taken from Afghanistan: A Distant War, by Robert Nickelsberg (Prestel)
For over one hundred years, National Geographic has taken readers to the furthest reaches of the world. From the creatures in the depths of the ocean to untouched indigenous populations, the magazine's photography has captured the minds of the curious, and always reminded us, to quote the popular Pixar movie Up, that "adventure is out there."
In honor of National Geographic's 125th brithday, Christie's is putting photographs featured in the three volume limited edition book set by TASCHEN titled, National Geographic: Around the World in 125 Years up for online auction, open now through December 3. The prize of the auction, however, is a set of the volumes that has been signed by 43 of National Geographic's most famous photographers, including Brian Skerry, William Allard, and Frans Lanting. The signed edition is one of only five; out of the remaining four, one will be given to President Obama, and three will be kept for the TASCHEN and National Geographic archives.
Here, a look at some of the incredible photographs that have amazed readers for over a century.
One of New York City’s five boroughs, the Bronx is only now beginning to escape the cliches of urban blight that defined it from the 60s through the 80s: arson, drug addiction, and social neglect. But the borough has always been a launching pad for immigrant working families, who since the 30s have had their own beach (the only one in the Bronx), Orchard Beach, created by New York’s master builder and social planner, Robert Moses. Photographer Wayne Lawrence acknowledges the beach’s reputation as one of the worst in the city ('Horseshit Beach’ is one of its more printable nicknames), but insists that the scarred landscape is nonetheless ‘a treasured respite from the sweltering confines of the concrete jungle’ for Bronx residents. ‘I began shooting portraits of Orchard Beach’s summertime regulars in 2005 shortly after moving to New York,’ he writes by way of introducing the people pictured in his book. He realized, he writes, ‘that the stigma attached to this oasis was largely unjustified—I felt compelled to engage with this community of working class families and colorful characters. The photographs in Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera’ celebrate the pride and dignity of the beach’s visitors, working-class people.’
A small refugee camp in Akkar, Lebanon. Northern Lebanon houses hundreds of small refugee encampments. They are usually built in the woods, away from the public view due to growing anti-Syrian sentiments in Lebanon. These camps get no official help from the Lebanese government or the U.N. Residents usually have to pay rent to the landowners, and scrounge for food and heating in a country where it is nearly impossible for them to find work.
Museums, parks and governmental offices are on lockdown; their employees told not to come in, the tourist outside turned away. Away from the front lines, bloated egos in 3-piece suits are whipped into a frenzy in an attempt to spin the narrative and bank votes for coming elections.
The United States is closed for business and deep political divides are poised to keep it that way. Like an occult hand on the neck of prosperity, the air escapes from the nation. With no agreement reached on a budget, the government has shut down and all essential employees have been told to stay home.
That was then, this is now. But sometimes it's hard to tell.
In 1995, our last shutdown, President BIll Clinton was in the thick of the melee with republicans unhappy with budget proposals, sparking weeks of government shutdowns.
Today President Obama faces an eerily similar situation.
As these diptychs show, with 1995 on the left and 2013 on the right, nothing really changes.
-Shaminder Dulai
Photo credits: AP, Getty and Reuters
Warning: captions on photos contain spoilers.
Dateline: Breaking Bad, Albuquerque
In early 2004, then Albuquerque mayor Martin Chavez banned the television show "Cops" from filming more episodes in the city, saying it made the city look "horrible" and that it was having a negative impact on tourism in the city. Nearly a decade later, the city is fully embracing the cult-like fans of the AMC series "Breaking Bad" and the tourism dollars that they bring to the local economy. This time, the positives economics outweigh any negative association that might come with the fictional story of Walter Walter, a high school chemistry teacher-turned-methamphetamine kingpin. The economic affects of the show goes well beyond tourism, as New Mexico offers tax incentives as enticements to future productions to the state. As a result, Albuquerque has developed business and a labor force to support the film industry, providing much needed jobs
As the final season of 'Breaking Bad' comes to a close, anxious fans desperately wait to see what will become of Walter White. In the real world, however, the show has taken it's host city—Albuquerque—by storm.
Burqueños, as the locals are known, embrace the show because unlike "Cops" it depicts the duality of Albuquerque - a land of incredible natural beauty, dramatic vistas and good people in addition to showcasing some of the less positive aspects of the Duke City and some of it's residents.
See more of photojournalist Steven St. John's photos of Albuquerque on The Daily Beast
Oscar Wilde once remarked that "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Milan Fashion Week continues the ritual by providing a pitstop on the world tour of fabrics; energizes editors and buyers before they decamp to Paris.
Giorgio Armani's Ready-To-Wear show is always the climactic send-off for the week, giving fashion waters a glimpse into what they'll be wearing in the Spring.
Taking inspiration from the title of the show, "Light and Shadows," The Daily Beast's Kevin Tachman explores Armani's backstage for a unique perspective on the spectacle.
See more of Tachman's photos and the Armani collection on The Daily Beast.