A quiet photograph of an older gentleman walking beside a blonde woman recently inspired a new wave of curiosity. Some viewers recognized his thoughtful expression immediately. Others…

Some photographs do more than reveal a familiar face. They reopen memories of an entire era—when music was purchased on compact discs, new videos premiered on television,…

Some movie stars become forever connected to a single image. For Christopher Atkins, it is the image of a curly-haired young man surrounded by blue water, white…

Sometimes the most powerful celebrity photographs are also the most ordinary. There was no red carpet, movie premiere, or carefully arranged studio lighting. Instead, a woman dressed…

A candid photograph can sometimes tell less about a celebrity than it reveals about the era watching her. In these images, a young woman walks barefoot across…

Some lives seem to hold more than one century inside them. The woman in these photographs was born before talking pictures had fully transformed Hollywood. She worked…

A single photograph can travel around the world before anyone stops to ask what it represents. That happened again when images of Bianca Censori rollerblading in Italy…

Sometimes a single photograph can bring an entire era rushing back. In a recent image, a familiar television actress appears beside a portrait taken during her younger…

There was a time when Hollywood stars seemed almost impossibly distant. Fans discovered them through movie magazines, late-night television interviews, and carefully posed studio portraits. A candid…