Photography

In his series The State of the Union, Gregg Segal creates a contrast between an idealized Civil War era, as embodied by re-enactors, and contemporary life. Gregg Segal hide caption

Saida, 2011 Bryan Meltz hide caption

Christilla, Rabieh, Lebanon Rania Matar hide caption

Bill Murray snaps a few at a Cannes press event on May 16. Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

The desert rose got its name from its blossoms, though the plant is not related to cultivated roses. Herders tie strips of the poisonous bark around the necks of young goats in an effort to protect them from marauding feral cats. Mark W. Moffett/National Geographic hide caption

American film director and photographer Gordon Parks on the set of a film, circa 1971. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

The sun breaks through dense jungle foliage as South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn't come, January 1965. Horst Faas/AP hide caption

A young man stands alone in a field near his home in Mound Bayou, Miss., Nov. 2011. Brandon Thibodeaux hide caption

From the series, "Big Rock Candy Mountain," a documentary project about the tourist towns around the Great Smoky Mountains. Tammy Mercure hide caption

"Letter Never Sent" is Hamrick's most recent hand-bound series. "The viewer has an intimate relationship with the book by holding it, feeling its textures and turning its pages, instead of just standing across the room staring at it," he says. Frank Hamrick hide caption