Every photograph is an attempt to make sense of the world. Frank did it with tension. Maier with silence. Leiter with poetry. What story are you telling?

New York and Paris have been photographed a million times. Davidson, Doisneau and Ronis still found something no one else saw. The place never was the point.

Gordon Parks and Charles Moore didn't document the Civil Rights Movement. They fought it — with a camera.

A country seen through foreign lenses looks different than it looks to itself. Which version is closer to truth?

Newton's women dominate and intimidate. Von Unwerth's women play and seduce. Same theme, opposite truths — which vision of femininity is more honest?