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I met Wayne F. Miller for the first and only time in 2008. He was a soft-spoken man who, with his camera, had documented many of the 20th century’s events that I’ve always been interested in: The Pacific Theater during World War II, Chicago’s African American communities during the Great Migration, itinerant farm workers.

Photographer Dawoud Bey shares some of the stories behind his seventies era photo exhibit Harlem, USA and talks about how, as just a novice, he went about photographing his community.

Two new Chicago exhibitions by photographer Dawoud Bey showcase his complex portraits of African-American life. For him, it's a chance to show off a lifetime of work.

Historically the still life has been considered a “debased genre” – less important, say, than the portrait or the landscape.

NEW YORK — A 1999 photograph of the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky has sold for $4.3 million in New York City, setting a record for any photograph sold at auction.Titled "Rhein II," the chromogenic color print face-mounted to acrylic glass, had a pre-sale estimate of $2.5 million to $3.