“Dick had put up this huge bubble-jet poster of a sequence of pictures he’d taken of Marilyn in a tight sequined dress,” photographer Tim Walker once wrote of a photoshoot that friend and colleague, ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. It’s 2003, and Cat Power exists in rarefied ...

Richard Avedon, whose high-profile fashion photography of the 1950s and 1960s was eclipsed in later years by his own distinctive and evocative portraits of the known and unknown, died yesterday of a ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. For The New Yorker’s series Takes, Carrie Brownstein—the co-creator of Sleater ...