Photographer

Once upon a time, there was a slice of Boston called the Combat Zone, and in that zone was a long block named LaGrange Street. LaGrange was the core of the Zone. What it was was a rodeo. On any given night from the ’60s into the ’80s, you’d find scores of prostitutes on parade on LaGrange. They leaned into open car windows, teetering on elevator platforms, talking to men inside while trying to steal their wallets. They worked the sidewalks like they owned them, which they did. “Scores of them?

Even robots like to have fun. NASA's rover on Mars showed off its playful side by snapping a picture of its own shadow. It's the latest self-portrait since the rover, named Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2004. The photo was taken in March and NASA released it this week. The solar-powered, six-wheel rover was at an outcrop on the rim of a massive crater. The late afternoon sun set the crater aglow and Opportunity waited for just the right lighting to send a postcard back to Earth.

LOS ANGELES -- Acclaimed photographer Helmut Newton died yesterday when he lost control of his Cadillac while leaving a Hollywood hotel and crashed into a wall. He was 83. Mr. Newton, a fashion photographer whose work appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Elle, and Vogue, was best known for his stark, black-and-white nude photos. Mr. Newton, who was Jewish, fled Germany for Singapore in December 1938, a month after Nazi-led pogroms. He eventually settled in Australia and became a citizen, then took up residence in Monte Carlo.

When she organized last fall's "On the Edge" juried exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, artistic director Kris Waldman hoped to generate more diversity in the gallery's offerings. She was richly rewarded when the contest attracted the work of photographer Lindsey Payson, a 23-year-old Hopkinton native and recent graduate of Vassar College. As a reward for winning the "On the Edge" competition, Payson now has her own show at the center, entitled "Studies Abroad. " "I've long been trying to introduce some new exhibits to our gallery, both with the goal of...

Wildlife photographer Shawn Carey will be speaking at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge on May 30 to share firsthand accounts, images, and video from visits to the Louisiana coast, where he documented the effects of the 2010 BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico and its wildlife. Carey will discuss the effects of the environmental disaster and the risks facing the migrating birds heading to the Gulf Coast region. The talk will begin at 7 p.m. at the visitors center on Hudson Road.

NEW YORK - As chief of photo operations for the Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting - he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was "Horst's army" of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film and stern orders to "come back with good pictures. " He and his editors chose the best and put together a steady flow of telling photos: South Vietnam's soldiers fighting and its civilians struggling to survive amid...

It is an odd first encounter. A 76-year-old woman waits in her living room in an assisted living facility, wearing nothing but a sarong. A photographer - she's known him all of an hour - carefully studies her form. The woman drops the sarong. The man peers through his lens. "Oh my God, aren't you beautiful," he tells the woman, as she eases herself into a flowered wing chair. "You are, you're wonderful. " Pornographic? In another context, maybe. But the man is Nicholas Nixon, the distinguished large-format photographer from Brookline, and what he sees...

The last decade hasn't been the easiest for photographer Annie Leibovitz. Her mother and father died. Her longtime partner, Susan Sontag, died. Her finances imploded. On the other hand, she also became the mother of three girls and kept working on assignments and publishing books, the most recent being "Pilgrimage," which, surprisingly, has no pictures of people. BOOKS: What kind of books do you like to read? LEIBOVITZ: I'm not a big reader. I like to read, but I'm slow.

SAN FRANCISCO — Music photographer Jim Marshall, who spent more than a half-century capturing rock ’n’ roll royalty ranging from the Beatles to Ben Harper at work and in repose, has died. He was 74. Aaron Zych, a manager at the Morrison Hotel Galleries in New York City, said yesterday that Mr. Marshall apparently died alone in a New York City hotel room. Zych said the San Francisco resident was scheduled to appear at a gallery last night to promote his new book with celebrity photographer Timothy White.

NEW YORK - Robert Whitaker photographed the Beatles, Eric Clapton, and Mick Jagger, and wars from Vietnam to the Middle East. He aimed his camera up Salvador Dali's nostrils in search of a surrealist effect. His pictures were displayed at Britain's National Portrait Gallery. But his most talked-about work was one that few people got to see when it was released: a photograph of the Beatles on an album cover that was quickly pulled from public view. Known in Beatles lore as the "butcher cover," it showed the Beatles, wearing white butchers' coats,...

A free iPhone app will allow MBTA riders to report suspicious activity to a dispatcher, MBTA officials announced today, saying it was part of a campaign to increase safety throughout the system. Using the See Say app, MBTA officials said, riders can share pictures, text, and location details with a dispatcher, if they see something suspicious while traveling. "This new app encourages daily commuters to play an active role in our ongoing efforts to maintain a safe and comfortable transit environment," Jonathan Davis, the MBTA general...

Wildlife photographer Shawn Carey will be speaking at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge on May 30 to share firsthand accounts, images, and video from visits to the Louisiana coast, where he documented the effects of the 2010 BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico and its wildlife. Carey will discuss the effects of the environmental disaster and the risks facing the migrating birds heading to the Gulf Coast region. The talk will begin at 7 p.m. at the visitors center on Hudson Road.

Christie's New York City auction house will hold a sale of photo prints to benefit the children of a South African photojournalist who was killed covering the Libyan uprising last year. Christiane Amanpour will host the auction Tuesday to benefit photographer Anton Hammerl's three children. Hammerl was shot April 5, 2011, when he and three other journalists were attacked by Moammar Gadhafi's forces. Hammerl and the others were traveling outside of Brega when the group was attacked by government troops who shot and killed him. Hammerl's family believed...

NEW YORK - As chief of photo operations for the Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting - he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was "Horst's army" of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film and stern orders to "come back with good pictures. " He and his editors chose the best and put together a steady flow of telling photos: South Vietnam's soldiers fighting and its civilians struggling to...

A father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. Survivors huddle together after an attack by government troops. A dead U.S. soldier, covered by a sheet, lies on the battlefield in Vietnam. Horst Faas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the AP, captured these images during the Vietnam War. Faas died Thursday in Munich at age 79, his daughter said.

A young male wolf from Oregon that has won worldwide fame while trekking across mountains, deserts and highways looking for a mate has had what appears to be his first close encounter with people, and got his picture taken, to boot. A federal trapper, a state game warden and a state wildlife biologist were visiting ranchers in Northern California on Tuesday to notify them that GPS signals showed the gray wolf was in the area, when they stopped to look over a sagebrush hillside with binoculars, said Karen Kovacs, wildlife program manager for the California Department of...

ATLANTA - Arnold Hardy, an amateur photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his gripping 1946 photo of a woman falling from a burning hotel, died Wednesday at Emory University Hospital of complications following hip surgery, according to A.S. Turner & Sons funeral home. He was 85. He died two days before the 61st anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1946, fire at Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel - a disaster that killed 119 people, more than any other hotel fire in US history. Mr. Hardy was a 24-year-old Georgia Tech graduate student and amateur photographer when he took the photo, using his last...

Linda Holliday (left) chatted up US Attorney Carmen Ortiz at Monday's "Celebrating Inspirational Women and Mothers" breakfast that raised money for Room to Grow, which helps babies in need during their first years of development. Holliday, who is Bill Belichick 's significant other, co-chaired the event, which featured a panel discussion with inspirational women such as Grand Circle Corp. owner Harriet Lewis , Dancing Deer Baking Co. cofounder Trish Karter , and Joanne Jaxtimer of BNY Mellon.

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark's new book "Prom" (Getty) is a piercing look at high school students in America and an eye-popping catalog of evening wear. Using her large-format instant Polaroid camera, Mark captures the toughness and vulnerability of promgoers at 13 schools across the country. She exposes a bit of her own life, too. There's her prom photo from 1958, and her regret that she doesn't still have the dress. As revealing as the photos are remarks by the couples. As one young man said, "You...