The mid-1950s bore witness to a dramatic shift in terms of presentation and posturing of the subject in fashion photography. This change only hinted at the coming transformation in the exhibition of the clothing and the models inhabiting it. A reversal ...

Photograph by Richard Avedon. Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August 1955. By the early 1950s, Harper’s Bazaar was well into what Christian Dior would refer to as “the golden age” of fashion. It was an era that ...

Last Updated on October 10, 2025 by Matt Staff High school looked very different in the mid-1900s. Without smartphones or social media, memories were made through yearbooks,

Loving II: More Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s–1950s by Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell is the much-anticipated companion to their acclaimed 2020 book Loving, and expands the only known photographic archive in the world devoted entirely to romantic love between men from the pre-Stonewall era.

The Butler County Historical Society's third calendar focuses on events around the area during the 1950s, using photos from the archives of Telegram sister publication, The Banner-Press. They are available for purchase at various locations around Butler ...

Fashion, as it is actualized and spoken through the medium of photography, represents some of the most beautiful and hideous elements of culture and society. Invariably, fashion photography pictures and proffers standards of beauty, self and display that ...

The International Center of Photography (ICP) holds more than 20,000 images by the legendary New York City press photographer, Weegee. Weegee, whose real name was Arthur Felig, was a New York City character unto himself who shot unflinching photographs ...

They didn’t allow cameras in the Met in the 1950s. But this sneaky photographer got lucky. What are photographs about? I never quite know, which I attribute to the fact that the camera, when its shutter opened and closed, also didn’t know. That’s ...