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Graphic designer Bob Gumbs shares his vision for the iconic poster represented in the exhibition Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography.

Icons of Style showcases a century of trendsetting musicians and chic models striking a pose.

“It’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.”

For nearly 25 years, Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography has showcased Houston’s diversity through the eyes of local high school students.

The movie, screening on January 17, complements the sensibility of the art on view in the exhibition Always Greener: Seeing and Seeking Suburbia.

Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol inspires a closer look at works of art from the MFAH collections that highlight the many ways to show power across the globe.

A portraitist of deep empathy, Fazal Sheikh has traveled the world photographing displaced communities—including the women of the “city of widows.”

“A good photobook asks the reader to pick it up, smell its ink, and follow (or not follow) its sequence of images. This intimate experience is what makes a photobook special.”  We at the Hirsch Library welcome you to a hands-on experience with “CLAP! – 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks.” On March 2 & 3, members of the New York–based nonprofit organization 10×10 Photobooksvisit …

The annual exhibition Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photographygives the Museum a chance to share both the work of talented young photographers and glimpses of our city’s vibrant diversity. Using photography as their tool, teens capture moments from their daily life around Houston. The students also write brief descriptions of each photograph to lend insight into their experiences, …

Few people know that late in life, when his paintings and pastels were already famous, Edgar Degas briefly took up photography. Some 20 of his surviving photographs are featured in the exhibition Degas: A New Vision. Malcolm Daniel, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography, spoke with me about Degas’s photography. What was the psychological connection between events in Degas’s life …