Controversial photographers

The celebrated photographer is her godfather, and from the moment she was born via caesarean section, Henson has been documenting her time in the world. Speaking publicly for the first time about her…

Preview photographs from a retrospective deemed too risque for Parisian under-18s. Warning: contains explicit images

Press cameras were forbidden from the prison execution chamber in Ossining, New York, where Ruth Snyder was to be electrocuted on January 12...

French photographer Irina Ionesco’s work is often associated with the erotic In a way it reminds me a bit of Helmut Newton in that the women have a powerful darkness to their sexuality. They pose p…

He's known as the author behind the famed Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by most, but the breadth of his disciplines goes far beyond literature. Charles

Nobuyoshi Araki’s photographs of nudity and bondage have caused outrage in Japan, and led to accusations of sexual exploitation. Now his images are on show at NYC’s Museum of Sex.

Alice in Wonderland is one of the most famous children’s stories in the world. From the moment it was first published in 1865, new copies have never stopped being printed to this very day. While nearly everyone can recount the events of the fictional tale, few people know the true…

Chris Wiley writes about the intimate photographs that Emmet Gowin took of his family and of his wife, Edith, during the sixties and seventies.

Last Thursday, Little Big Man gallery in San Francisco opened its doors for the first time, presenting "Past Tense—Future," a solo show from one of Japan's most infamous art photographers, Nobuyoshi Araki. Though in the West he is known mainly for his visions of erotica—nubile beauties in bondage, provocative nudes—Araki is one of the most prolific photographers of all time, as this show reminds us, with works spanning more than three decades.