Ansel Adams

The answer was hidden in the shadows.

In 1943, Ansel Adams traveled to photograph Manzanar—one of the ten internment camps that together detained 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

From Ansel Adams to Rebecca Norris Webb, we trace the symbiotic relationship that the parks and photography have developed over 150 years.

A photographer excavates personal history through reconstruction of Adams's World War II photographs of Japanese Americans.

"To render the world more beautiful than it really is, as so many landscape photographers before Adams routinely did, is dishonest."

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.

Kodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age.

Lewis Hine captured the misery, dignity, and occasional bursts of solidarity within US working-class life in the early twentieth century.

How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center.

The restoration of the Air Force Academy Chapel is the U.S.’s most complex modernist preservation project ever.

Ed Ayers visits Manzanar, the largest of the WWII-era internment camps for Japanese Americans, and speaks to those keeping the memories of detainees alive.