Stories

Explore fashion, film, and archives through the lens of emerging image-makers — Sixteen brings together bold new voices with forgotten stories from the past.

  1. Greg Girard, Asian Nights

    Greg Girard spent much of his career examining the social and physical transformations in Asia, especially in its largest cities.

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  2. William Klein, Who are you, Polly Maggoo?

    The brilliant photographer's first feature film, a wacky portrait of an American top model in Paris.

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  3. Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds

    Philippe Halsman’s work with and featuring the acclaimed director whose characteristic style was so iconic his surname became an adjective.

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  4. Dennis Stock, American Graffiti

    Dennis Stock photographed George Lucas’ coming-of-age adventure featuring high-school romance, Californian cruise strips and drag-racing.

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  5. Wim Wenders, Paris Texas

    New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.

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  6. Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train

    Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis.

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