In Memoriam

Notable deaths in 2019

A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity

• Photos: Notable deaths in 2018
• Photos: George H.W. Bush 1924-2018
• Photos: Aretha Franklin 1942-2018
• Photos: John McCain 1936-2018
• Photos: Burt Reynolds 1936-2018

Fashion Forward

Oscars 2019: Red carpet arrivals

A-listers came out for Hollywood's biggest night

• Photos: Grammys 2019: Red carpet
• Photos: Golden Globes 2019: Red carpet
• Photos: Emmy Awards 2018: Red carpet
• Photos: MTV VMAs 2018: Red carpet
• Photos: Met Gala 2018: Red carpet
• Photos: Janelle Monáe in black and white
• Photos: Fashions by Stella McCartney

Through The Lens

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Yannis Behrakis 1960-2019

The acclaimed Reuters photographer's assignments took him to conflict zones, scenes of natural disasters, and the most personal of tragedies

• Photos: Images from Joel Sartore's Photo Ark series
• Watch: Photographer James Aldred on tree adventures
• Photos: Harry Benson's photographs through the years
• Photos: Faces of the world's extreme poor
• Watch: Photojournalist Carol Guzy
• Watch: Into the wild with Thomas D. Mangelsen
• Watch: Photos from the other side of the tracks
• Watch: A gallery en route: Commuters' daily rituals
• Watch: Photographic memories of love and grief

Artistic Visions

Graffiti rises at the World Trade Center site

More than 20,000 square feet of corrugated metal at the World Trade Center construction zone in New York City is being transformed by street artists

• Photos: Art made of balloons
• Photos: Tarsila and the birth of Brazilian Modern Art
• Photos: The art of Takashi Murakami
• Photos: Iconic movie posters by designer Bill Gold
• Photos: Art created by artificial intelligence
• Photos: Portraitist Amy Sherald
• Photos: German Post-War master Anselm Kiefer
• Photos: Art by Guantánamo detainees
• Photos: The divine drawings of Michelangelo
• Photos: The art of courtroom illustrators

Royals

Princess Eugenie's royal wedding

Princess Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank in a dazzling display of love and pageantry

• Photos: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding
• Photos: Crash course on Meghan Markle
• Photos: Royal wedding gowns
• Photos: "Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs"
• Photos: Princess Diana: A photo album
• Photos: Pippa Middleton's wedding
• Photos: Queen Elizabeth II through the years
• Photos: Kate's stunning looks in India and Bhutan

Space

Longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century

Observers across much of the world turned their eyes skyward to watch a "blood moon" eclipse

• Photos: Stunning views of Jupiter
• Photos: Jupiter's Great Red Spot
• Photos: Envisioning black holes
• Photos: Astonishing Pluto in sharp focus
• Photos: Gorgeous abstract Martian landscapes
• Photos: Astronaut Scott Kelly's year in space
• Photos: Rosetta's historic 12-year mission
• Photos: Cassini captures Saturn and its moons

Infamy

America's deadliest mass shootings

More than 50 years after the notorious Texas clock tower shooting, a look at the worst mass killings in the U.S. in recent memory

Remembering World War II

Pearl Harbor - Day of infamy

Remembering December 7, 1941, when an air attack on Hawaii pulled the U.S. into WWII

• Photos: D-Day: When the Allies turned the tide
• Photos: The Battle of Midway
• Photos: Breaking the Nazis' Enigma codes at Bletchley Park
• Photos: World War II graveyard off the American coast
• Photos: World War II's ghost army

Humans Of New York

Photographer Brandon Stanton shares stories from the road

The photographer-blogger behind the website Humans of New York says what makes his photography so unique is "the randomness of it"