Topic: Fine Art Photography

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

Three of the best photo books of 2011, as picked by the Monitor's photo staff.

7 gifts for history and geography fans

From a massive atlas to a comprehensive history of the White House, here are 7 of the best history and geography gift books of the season.

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.

The art of summer in NYC

Sculpture, photography, art, even waterfalls – New York's exhibitions entertain with their originality.