The Work
A Gallery Overview of Portraits
Almost five decades with a camera in my hand.
Featured Portrait
Robert Lacher
“When I photographed him in the summer, I felt it was important to capture him with the elements he has devoted much of his life to. The garden, the music, and the outdoors. I have rarely made a portrait that asked so little of its subject and revealed so much.”The Work
The Life
A Life in Pictures
An intimate and compassionate view of a career spent close to the great and the little-known alike.
News & Stories
Recent Notes from the Archive
New research, anniversaries, and rediscovered prints from the archive, published as they surface.
News & Stories
More News & Stories
The Winter Sitting
A rediscovered contact sheet sheds new light on a sitting long thought lost to the studio fire of 1961. […]
The Archive Joins Instagram
We invite you to follow along as we share prints, contact sheets, and stories from the collection. […]
A Restaurateur's Portrait
An innovator of the American dining room, photographed at the height of a career that changed how the city ate. […]
The Name Behind the Pen Name
A writer better known by an adopted name, and the portrait that helped fix that image in the public mind. […]
An Editor, Remembered
A publisher and businesswoman whose portrait captures the confidence that defined a career of firsts. […]
A Quiet Anniversary
This month marks an anniversary the studio ledger notes but the newspapers of the time did not. […]