A photograph of a young black boy feeling President Obama’s hair has been on view in the West Wing for years.

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Indelible Image of Boy’s Pat on Obama’s Head

Photographs apparently showing soldiers posing with body parts of a dead insurgent drew strong condemnation on Wednesday from American officials and the ambassador in Afghanistan.

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U.S. Condemns Photos of Soldiers Posing With Body Parts

The founders of Instagram, now multimillionaires after Facebook bought their app this week, were helped along the way by the tight web in the Bay Area tech scene.

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Instagram Founders Were Helped by Bay Area Connections

They are students at one of Russia’s elite military academies. But as Sergey Kozmin’s photographs from his “Girl Soldiers” show, they are also little girls.

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Lens Blog: Photos of an Elite Russian Military School for Young Girls

The photographer Terry Richardson has become known for a kind of glossed-up 1970s porn chic that is popular in high fashion.

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Terry Richardson’s Photographs Provoke and Reveal

A major show at the Museum of Modern Art surveys Cindy Sherman’s 35-year career in which, waging a kind of war with her camera, she has provocatively turned photography against itself.

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Art Review: ‘Cindy Sherman’ at Museum of Modern Art

The 4-year-old Malachy beat out a Dalmatian, German shepherd, Doberman pinscher, Irish setter, a Kerry blue terrier and wire-haired dachshund for Westminster’s 115th overall best in show title.

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Malachy, a Pekingese, Wins Westminster’s Best in Show

In the 1990s, reinterpretations of Ms. Bassman’s photographs found a new generation of admirers, and a full-fledged revival of her career ensued, with gallery shows and international exhibitions.

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Lillian Bassman, Fashion and Fine-Art Photographer, Dies at 94

Rag & Bone offered a rich display of wintry woolen stripes, rich herringbones and great prints.

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T Magazine: Photos of The Moment | Rag & Bone

Officials dealing with budget cuts plan to make monuments and archaeological sites more attractive to foreign film crews, advertising firms and publishing houses by reducing the cost of permits.

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Athens Journal: Debt-Ridden Greece Turns to Sacred Sites for Help

The tabloid crime photographer Weegee is the subject of two exhibitions, at the International Center of Photography and at the Kasher Gallery.

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Art Review: ‘Weegee’ at International Center of Photography – Review

Ms. Arnold captured both the famous and the little-known.

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Eve Arnold, Photographer, Dies at 99

Tumblr has become an important image-driven platform to fashion photographers, brands and bloggers, who have made it an integral part of their online lives.

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New York Fashion Week: On Tumblr, a Community for Style – NY Fashion Week

Maureen Drennan doesn’t grow marijuana herself. No does she smoke it. But she has spent the past few years photographing a picturesque little pot farm in California

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Lens Blog: On a California Farm Where Marijuana Grows

Paul Moakley was comfortable with who he was when he left his high school on Staten Island — for the second time.

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Lens Blog: After a Decade, Moving On From Adolescence