MICHAEL BALSAMO / The Associated PressMar 5, 2018
The best-actress statuette got into the wrong hands at a ball after the awards show. The tuxedo-clad suspect allegedly was on his way out when a photographer's suspicion led to his arrest. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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 )
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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 )
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 )
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