Photographs by Ed Drew courtesy of the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco War photography has come a long way since the shadowy tintypes of the American Civil War. With modern equipment, photographers can capture details of combat like never before. But for some the painstaking process of working with old mediums has
Company D soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry, known as "The Old Guard," photograph headstones with smartphones at Arlington National Cemetery, Aug. 30, 2011, to help reconcile burial records. U.S. Army photo by J.D. Leipold. America's most hallowed cemetery is trying to update its records, and it's turning soldiers into photographers to
Joao Silva's image of spectators at the closing of Walter Reed Medical Center landed on the front page of the New York Times. For New York Times photojournalist Joao Silva, the road to recovery has been long and arduous. But now it looks like the light at the end of the tunnel
A man in North Waziristan, Pakistan, holds a piece of missile fired by a U.S. drone. Photo by Noor Behram. Photographer Noor Behram's new photo exhibit makes a shocking claim that many supporters of the War on Terror don't want to hear: far more civilians are killed by U.S. drone attacks than
The photo album of German photographer Franz Krieger. Photo courtesy of the New York Times Less than 24 hours. That's how long it took readers to help identify the mysterious photographer of a recently discovered photo book containing never-before-seen images of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Lens, the New York Times' photography blog,
