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His camera could freeze moments in history, but he also had an eye for the humor and absurdity of everyday life. Dogs were a help there. Photographers with a comic [...]

He wrote outsize histories on a panoply of subjects, found renown in Britain as an indefatigable columnist and infuriated liberals with his outspoken Tory views. Paul Johnson, the prolific journalist, [...]

He wrote outsize histories on a panoply of subjects, found renown in Britain as an indefatigable columnist and infuriated liberals with his outspoken Tory views. Paul Johnson, the prolific journalist, [...]

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Frances B. Johnston, one of the first [...]

A distinguished art historian at Yale, he illuminated the paintings of Seurat, Monet and others by regarding them through a social lens. Robert L. Herbert, a pioneering scholar of 19th-century [...]

Vincent Scully, the Yale art historian whose lectures inspired students for more than 60 years and whose writings on architecture had a decisive influence on its practice in the last [...]

William A. Christenberry, whose widely admired color photographs of the red-clay landscapes and kudzu-wreathed dwellings in his native corner of the rural South describe the slow passage of time there [...]

Byline: RICHARD B. WOODWARD Marc Riboud, the celebrated French photojournalist who captured moments of grace even in the most fraught situations around the world, died in Paris on Tuesday. He [...]

Byline: RICHARD B. WOODWARD Marc Riboud, the French photojournalist who captured moments of grace even in the most fraught situations around the world, died in Paris on Tuesday. He was [...]

Marc Riboud, the celebrated French photojournalist who captured moments of grace even in the most fraught situations around the world, died in Paris on Tuesday. He was 93. The cause [...]

CELEBRITY portraiture, like any kind of celebrity journalism, is usually an exercise in servility. The effort and cunning necessary to hunt down and bag big names can be exhausting, and [...]

SARAH SILVERMAN is the main reason some of us stay up late to watch television. Glimpses of Ms. Silverman, a bewitching 31-year-old comedian who's as babelicious as she is wickedly [...]

LANCE LOUD, who died last December at the age of 50, was a wild child of the media age. Even his name sounded like a campy invention, as if he [...]

THOMAS EAKINS had a secret. For decades he engaged in a practice that many in late-19th-century Philadelphia would very likely have regarded as scandalous had they known. Not wanting to [...]