The New Yorker - Photo Booth

In Paul Graham’s book “A1: The Great North Road,” life along a major British thoroughfare reveals fissures in the nation’s identity.

A retrospective of Martha Cooper’s work shows the ramshackle toys and improvised games from a bygone era of growing up.

The photographer doesn’t sentimentalize her subjects; she pays attention to them.

The photographer, who died last month, at the age of eighty-three, spent his life chronicling the highs and lows of the country’s post-colonial evolution.

In “People of the 20th Century,” the photographer set out to document every type and profession in the fading epoch of prewar Germany.