reviewed by Charles Dee Mitchell Geert van Kesteren's Baghdad Calling begins with the kind of roll call of depressing figures we have come to associate with the current Iraq War: Over 120 armed groups are operating in Iraq. At least 4 million Iraqis have left the country. Since the U.S. occupation began, 209 journalists have been killed in the fighting or executed by insurgents....

reviewed by George Slade Fountain, a beguilingly slim collection based on Andrea Modica's extended relationship with a family and their business in Fountain, Colorado, is an expansion and a welcome revisiting of a photographic program first laid out in her 1996 book Treadwell. It's a pleasure to imagine Modica working on these projects...

reviewed by Aaron Rothman I first came to know of Ed Templeton sometime around 1990, when he began appearing in national skateboarding magazines as an up and coming young pro. Like Templeton, I was a teenager who had immersed myself in skateboarding and photography as means of self-expression, discovery, and escape from the trials of suburban American adolescence...

Paul Fusco: RFK reviewed by Will Steacy My mother, an Irish Catholic who grew up outside Boston, used to read Greek myths to me before putting me to bed. My favorite was the tale of Orpheus's quest through the Underworld to find his beloved Eurydice after her death...

reviewed by Charles Dee Mitchell Editor Liu Heung Shing began gathering images for this forty-year survey of Chinese photography in 1997. He searched China for photographers once employed by the Maoist government either as official photographers or with the state-run media, elderly men and women who still had negatives in shoeboxes under their beds and prints they had shown no one for decades...

an election day interview by Will Steacy Will Steacy and Zoe Strauss spent much of their Election Day together in their mutual home town of Philadelphia, visiting polls, shooting photographs and recording the following interview...

by Jerome Poynton In 1947 Robert Frank arrived in New York from Switzerland with his camera. His first photo job was shooting Moe, Larry and Curly – The Three Stooges – on a bus tour from high school to high school in Queens...

by Walker Evans Walker Evan's prescient essay on his friend Robert Frank, reproduced here in its entirety...

We asked a group of photographers and writers to share their personal stories about Frank and his masterpiece, here are their responses...