Photography

May 30, 2026

Photographer Shares Portraits of the Iconic Marilyn Monroe During Her Untimely Final Film

In May 1962, Lawrence Schiller arrived on the set of Something’s Got to Give, the film that would be Marilyn Monroe’s last. The 25-year-old photographer was there on assignment for Paris Match magazine and, though he’d already met Monroe two years earlier on the set of Let’s Make Love, he believed that shooting her this time could lead to his breakthrough.

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May 20, 2026

Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 36th Anniversary With Stunning Image of Trifid Nebula

Last month, on April 24, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marked an exciting milestone: its 36th anniversary. To celebrate, the telescope once again set its sights on the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region located about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Hubble had captured the area 29 years earlier, in 1997, but its newest photograph of Trifid offers an even more mesmerizing glimpse into the iconic nebula.

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May 8, 2026

Feisty Felines Captured by the “Godfather of Cat Photography” in New Photo Book

There were very few subjects that photographer Walter Chandoha loved more than cats. For decades, the late photographer, who died in 2019 at 99 years old, captured felines with a remarkable sense of whimsy, humor, and, perhaps most of all, adoration. Next month, Damiani will publish a new book with dozens of these delightful images, all curated from Chandoha’s vast photographic archive.

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May 6, 2026

NASA Releases Over 12,000 Unseen Images From the Artemis II Mission

We were lucky to follow the Artemis II mission live, getting real-time updates of the astronauts as they flew around the moon. And thanks to the advanced tech that surrounded the mission, NASA was able to share some high-res images taken by the astronauts before they even returned to Earth. These included Earthset, a solar eclipse from their perspective, and detailed images of the dark side of the moon.

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