The controversial photograph shows Shields nude in a bathtub. Photo: Gary Gross In 1975, a ten year-old Brooke Shields stood for a portrait from photographer Gary Gross. Urged by a mother eager to make her daughter a star, Shields posed naked in a bathtub, oiled and done up in make-up. Shortly thereafter the family signed

Actress Jessica Alba in an ad, before and after Photoshopping In an effort to reduce the perceived effects models with unrealistic bodies have on young women who see them in ads, lawmakers in France and Great Britain are mulling a series of proposals that would require doctored advertisements to carry disclaimers. According to Jo Swinson,

 [photopress:080513_Robert_Frank_02.jpg,full,centered] Chattanooga, Tennessee. Copyright © Robert Frank In post-war American photography, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more influential book than Robert Frank's 1958 masterpiece, The Americans. In it, Frank, an emigrant from Switzerland, details his cross-country trip through the United States with 83 stirring portraits of every corner of American society. His style and

[photopress:mit_photo.jpg,full,centered] Whoever said the sky's the limit obviously didn't go to MIT. For about the cost of an iPod, two MIT students have sent a camera into near-space and snapped beautiful million-dollar shots of our planet. Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh spent a measly $148 on their contraption, which consisted of a Canon PowerShot A470

"Viaje a Giraradot, Colombia," from Nereo: Images From Half a Century The art of photography is about more than just capturing an image. It's about telling a story. That's the idea behind the new collection from world-renowned Colombian photographer Nereo Lopez Meza, who, in his 89 years, has told many stories. "As photographers

[photopress:gore_41.jpg,full,aligncenter] Here's an example of the right shot, one of Marc's school portaits. School has started anew, and pretty soon kids everywhere are going to be sitting in front of a camera and immortalizing their faces for their school portraits in the yearbook. This is understandably a tense moment. After all, this photograph will be

Images from 50 Photographs by Jessica Lange - Courtesy of Lange/Powerhouse Books Jessica Lange knows a little something about being captured. The Academy Award-winning actress rose to fame in 1976's King Kong when she played a damsel abducted by a giant ape. Since then she's been captured on film in such notable movies as Frances,