American photography

“This photograph could be the opening line of a joke: ‘So, a girl rides up to a bar on a horse...’” says Joel Meyerowitz. “But really what happened was that I was there getting some ice cream for my kids when this girl rode up to the window on her horse and ordered two lobster rolls and some fries; as soon as I saw the girl, the horse, and the ice cream sign, I saw the photograph.”

Photographer Beth Yarnelle Edwards sees the suburbs as the 'physical embodiment of the American Dream.' Her images reveal aspiration and stability, but also the more mundane aspects of a suburban existence.

A look back at the iconic images of Life magazine, presented by Getty Images.

The six photographers in the Black Chicago exhibition cover the period from 1940 to the present. Their photos are a shocking and highly artistic testament to life in the city

William Eggleston / Supermarket Boy with Carts

With “Half and the Whole,” Jack Shainman Gallery presents a trove of Gordon Parks’s photographs, many of which have rarely been exhibited.

These are some of the best American flag pictures from our readers

View the work of William Eggleston, regarded as one of photography’s most uncommonly talented practitioners.