The New Yorker Photo Booth Column Edits
The Henri Cartier-Bresson of South Korea
Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.
Photographs by Han Youngsoo / Han Youngsoo Foundation
For Elias Williams, the Hip-Hop Beat Machine Carries the Soul of Community
In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams captures the underground beat-maker scene of New York City.
Photographs by Elias Williams
The Rise of the Passive Spectator
The famed twentieth-century photojournalist Weegee was just as fascinated with tragedy—fires, car crashes, murders—as he was with our desire to gawk.
“Mrs. Bernice Lythcott and son looking through window shattered by rock-throwing hoodlums, Harlem, New York,” 1943. Photographs © Weegee / ICP / Getty