Our lives are part of a greater whole, and that story is best told in faces, as captured in these TIME portraits from 2022 Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

In the 1983 portrait of writer Kathy Acker, her face is entirely covered by her hands, while her bare arms and breasts pop in contrast to her black pants. Mapplethorpe took many self-portraits ...

Sculptors are the heroes of the arts. They are the least appreciated, the greatest riskers of time, the most restricted in expression and the most poorly rewarded of artists. Their perseverance is ...

Insider rounded up some of the best black-and-white wedding photos to show how beautiful they can be. The pictures capture once-in-a-lifetime memories and quiet moments between newlyweds.

In the winter of 1946, like countless others before him, LIFE photographer Ed Clark fell under the spell cast by the gorgeous city of Paris.

The somber black-and-white film, which swept the 1994 Academy Awar ds with seven wins, including best picture and best cinematography, is one of the highest-ranked movies of all time.

A black-and-white etching on paper, an art form that has been around for 500 years. A portrait of a woman. In the background, probably some kind of domestic interior.

Steeped in authenticity, messiness and seemingly devoid of vanity, photographer Nancy Floyd’s black-and-white self-portraits in her new book “Weathering Time” (GOST Books / PhotoEye Books ...