​Houston might be known for its outsized personality, but every two years, during

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Photographer MJ Bentley’s mantra sounds something like this: Annie Leibovitz, Anna

“What is a woman?” Perhaps you’ve heard this question pinging around the darkest

“A little hyperbole never hurts,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 mega-bestseller

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Seven years ago, photographer Andrew Soria picked up his camera and planted his feet

In her poem “Touched by an Angel,” Maya Angelou describes humans as “exiles

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Sophie Gamand is the patron saint of pit bulls in flower crowns. “For decades,

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Isolated on a canopy inside the Cornaro Chapel in Rome, the body of St. Theresa levitates

Slick latex gloves, lacy negligees in fire-engine red, ivory linens draped carelessly

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“By design, life is a play of opposites,” says Uzor Ugoala, whose dreamy photographs

A lifelong amateur artist, Hermann Rorschach showed people inkblots in order to discover

“The moment I watched a photograph develop in the darkroom, I was hooked,” Leon

The agony. The ecstasy. The anticipation. The tension climbs, tightens, crescendos,

As Anthony Bourdain said, “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and

When you love someone and they leave, where does that love go? It’s a question

From silver-plated daguerreotypes to Instagram-ready iPhone snaps, photography has