A specific Thursday evening. The Astor Theatre, on Broadway at 45th Street in New York City, October 27, 1955, the opening night of ...
A specific morning. Times Square, Manhattan, late February 1955, around eight in the morning. Cold rain falling. Dennis Stock, twenty-six years old, is ...
A specific construction site. The potato fields of Hempstead, Long Island, twenty-five miles east of Manhattan, the morning of June 14, 1948. A ...
A specific session. Sun Studio at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, the evening of July 5, 1954. Sam Phillips, the thirty-one-year-old owner and engineer, ...
A specific Saturday afternoon. October 1955, the women’s department on the third floor of Marshall Field’s flagship store on State Street in Chicago. ...
A specific scene. The Schott workshop in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, late summer 1928. Irving Schott, forty-three years old, is at ...
A specific salon. Friday morning, October 1958, the Beauty Bar at 1247 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburban beauty salon eight miles ...
A specific shop. Joe Cirello’s barbershop on Snyder Avenue in South Philadelphia, December 1940. A high school junior is sitting in the chair. ...
A specific scene set in the present. February 2026, a photo studio in Burbank, California, three blocks from the original Warner Bros. lot ...
A specific moment. February 1982, the offices of the Washington Post Magazine in downtown Washington, D.C. The magazine’s editorial team is finalizing a ...