Editorial Stories

From fashion to documentaries and archives, discover unique stories from the world of Sixteen Journal.

  1. Jacques Olivar, Supermodels

    Jacques Olivar's 90s supermodels Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington, Eva Herzigova, Yasmeen Ghauri and more.
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  2. Shelby Lee Adams, Appalachia

    Shelby Lee Adams crisp, poignant images show the people of Appalachia in their simple environments, revealing both the heroic and grotesque side to secluded mountain life.
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  3. Jack Davison, Archives

    Jack Davison shared unseen archives for Sixteen Volume 11.
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  4. Larry Sultan, Swimmers

    ‘I wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill-conceived… I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools. And made pictures.’
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  5. Mark Steinmetz, The Players

    Made between 1986 and 1990, these photographs are classic Steinmetz: tenderness, humor, and humanism are all present here.
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  6. Walter Iooss Jr., Icons

    Widely considered the world's most influential sports photographer, Walter Iooss Jr.'s images transcend the fame of his subjects and have come to represent modern sports culture.
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  7. Merrick Morton, West Coast Portraits from the Hood, 1980-1996

    Beginning in 1980, Merrick Morton set about going to East and South Central Los Angeles—traveling as far as San Diego—to document street gang culture.
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  8. Jim Goldberg, Raised by Wolves

    The city is made to get lost in. Some people disappear there by design, seduced by the freedom of anonymity, the chance for reinvention.
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  9. Susan Meiselas, Prince Street Girls

    How Susan Meiselas’s home neighborhood produced one of her most influential bodies of work – a study of adolescence, femininity and the gentrification of New York.
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  10. Roberto Polillo, Jazz Italia

    Born in Milano in 1946, Roberto live in Milano and Rome. He started making photographs in the Sixties, when, for a dozen years, He took photographs in over a hundred jazz concerts.
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  11. Guy Le Querec, Jazz from J to ZZ

    Born in 1941 in Paris into a family from Brittany, Guy Le Querrec shot his first pictures of jazz musicians in London in the late 1950s, making his professional debut in 1967.
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  12. William P. Gottlieb, Library of Congress archives

    The collection consists of jazz photographs taken by writer-photographer William P. Gottlieb, from 1938 to 1948, the "Golden Age of Jazz" when swing reached its peak and modern jazz developed.
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