Topic: Fine Art Photography

M.A.S.H. actor dies: Alan Arbus played psychiatrist (+video)

M.A.S.H, actor dies: Alan Arbus was best known for his M.A.S.H character, Dr. Sidney Freedman, the 4077th  psychiatrist.

10 coffee table books that make great gifts

Stuck for a present for that friend that's hard to shop for? Check out one of these gorgeous coffee table books.

10 best books of October, according to Amazon's editors

Sara Nelson, editorial director of books and Kindle for Amazon.com, talks about the 10 books chosen by Amazon editors as the best of October, 2012.

5 award-winning mystery novels for young adults

Here are five great mystery novels aimed at teenage readers.

John Mellencamp: It's About You: movie review

'John Mellencamp: It's About You' captures the rocker on summer tour in the South along with the poetic melancholy of rural America. 

3 great photo books

Each proving that a picture is worth far more than a thousand words, here are three favorite 2011 photo books chosen by the Monitor's photo staff. They offer images that range from the Great Depression to a behind-the-headlines view of Africa to a study of humanity's impact on the Earth.

7 gifts for history and geography fans

Stumped as to what to buy for that nephew who can name every president or the uncle with maps all over the house? Here are some of the best of the season's new geography and history books, from a history of both Bush presidencies to the latest edition of the magnificent Oxford world atlas.

Will and Kate visit L.A.: Locals' top 10 southern California must-sees

Royal newlyweds William and Kate have a busy, business-first itinerary for their three-day visit to southern California, which begins Friday. If they had asked us, we’d have given them these 10 tips for how to savor the SoCal experience. For every obvious tourist gambit, we’ve thrown in some insider info about where to pan for the best Angeleno cultural gold.

Painters of light: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand

Stieglitz, Steichen, And Strand defined photography as art.

Riding shotgun: Lee Friedlander photographs from the car

Distinctive Lee Friedlander photos open a window on America's deep car culture.

Edward Burtynsky and Ansel Adams: A pairing of devastation and beauty

In a new exhibition, Ansel Adams's iconic nature images are contrasted with Edward Burtynsky's industrial scapes of rock quarries, coal heaps, and rusty ships.

Ansel Adams: Photo of Yosemite taken by Ansel Adams sells for more than $722,000

Ansel Adams: A photograph of Yosemite National Park taken by Ansel Adams fetched $722,000 at New York City auction.

Cartier-Bresson: A master's black-and-white world

Cartier-Bresson captured moments and movements of profound social change with an artist's eye. A new exhibition looks at 45 years of his iconic work.

Photoshop and Facebook, Victorian-style

Long before Photoshop and Facebook, upper-crust British ladies were cropping and splicing with giddy abandon and drawing spider webs inhabited with the pasted-on faces of their friends.

Robert Frank: His photographs recorded an unvarnished America

Robert Frank's candid images exposed the underside of midcentury America and were initially reviled.

Where's Saturn's moon Mimas? Only the shadow knows...

The Jump Artist

Images of America's West held up against today's reality.

New exhibit at MoMA juxtaposes idyllic early photographs against darker ones of today.

For kids: A link to railroad history

Photographer O. Winston Link shot thousands of images of steam engines before steam gave way to diesel.

Magnum Magnum

A renowned photo agency celebrates its 60th anniversary.