Emma Niles / TruthdigSep 7, 2017
A massive photograph of a 1-year-old Mexican boy now peeks out from behind the border wall in Tecate, Mexico. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Paul Von Blum / TruthdigJun 30, 2017
A new book by writer, photographer and union organizer David Bacon is a bilingual fusion of journalism and documentary photography that reveals the humanity and suffering of marginalized Latino workers. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
By Mariam Alimi / Sahar SpeaksFeb 2, 2017
A female photojournalist whose photo of a farmer became famous in 2004 provides workshops for teenage girls in the hopes that they, too, will find success. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Jordan Riefe / TruthdigNov 2, 2016
Weston may not have studied Whitman’s poetry before embarking on a photographic road trip for a special edition of “Leaves of Grass.” Yet while having the time of his life, he also got the spirit right. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Liesl Bradner / TruthdigJun 2, 2016
Artists at galleries in Los Angeles and New York zoom in on some of the world’s 60,000 displaced people—and one “solution” for dealing with them. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Liesl Bradner / TruthdigMay 13, 2016
Stephen Shore's book is a potent photo-documentation of Holocaust survivors in their twilight years and a testament to how one lives within a community that shares collective traumatic memories. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Ed Schad / TruthdigFeb 20, 2016
Poet Adam Kirsch, inspired by the photographs of August Sander, has created an important book about one of the 20th century’s most devastating eras. He especially illuminates a Germany that would soon be filled with the cancer of Nazism. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Liesl Bradner / TruthdigJan 22, 2016
Dickey Chapelle, the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action, is featured in a new pictorial memoir that collects her photos and notebooks from World War II to Vietnam. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 4, 2015
The women's rights movement in Great Britain had a martial arts-trained group that few knew about; a writer ponders how to get people to read about climate change when it's so depressing; and a look into how abolitionist Frederick Douglass became the most photographed man in America. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJun 2, 2014
When photos of violence against Occupy Wall Street protesters began to appear in The New York Times, Los Angeles photographer Annie Appel set out to capture the faces and record the hopes of participants in 12 American cities. The result is a 572-page ready-to-print book, with a foreword from Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Liesl Bradner / TruthdigMar 28, 2014
Photojournalist W. Eugene Smith brought worldwide attention to social injustice with his provocative photographs. In 1959 he began assembling a retrospective on what was then his life’s work, which has never been published, until now.In 1959, photojournalist W. Eugene Smith began assembling a retrospective on what was then his life’s work on social injustice. It has never been published, until now. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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