Why MoMA is giving its largest solo photography exhibition ever to Lee Friedlander -- Travels with Walker, Robert, and Andy. On Stephen Shore -- Southern exposures: past and present through the lens of William Christenberry -- John Szarkowski, curator of photography, dies at eighty-one -- Imagist's eye. On Henry Wessel -- Beauty is not a four-letter word. On Richard Misrach -- Tableau inside your town hall. On Paul Shambroom -- Bernd Becher, photographer of German industrial landscape, dies -- Keeping it real: photo-realism -- Portraits of American paradises, mostly lost. On Joel Sternfeld -- Keeping his eye on the horizon (line). On Sze Tsung Leong -- Photographic icons: fact, fiction or metaphor? -- Picnic that never was. On Beate Gutschow -- As unpretty as a picture. On Eric Fischl -- Moments in time, yet somehow in motion. On JoAnn Verburg -- Robert Polidori: in the studio -- Young man with an eye, and friends up a tree. On Ryan McGinley -- Page one: a conversation with Philip Gefter, picture editor of the New York times' front page / by Veronique Vienne -- History's first draft looks much better with pictures -- Reflections of New York's luckiest: Look magazine -- Reading newspaper pictures: a thousand words, and then some -- Cornell Capa, photojournalist and museum founder, dies at ninety -- Defining beauty through Avedon -- Self-portrait as obscure object of desire. On Jack Pierson -- Is that portrait staring at me? On Fiona Tan -- Pantheon of arts and letters in light and shadow. On Irving Penn -- Photographer's lie. On Annie Leibovitz -- Embalming the American dreamer. On Katy Grannan -- What eight-five hundred pictures are worth -- The man who made Mapplethorpe: a film about Sam Wagstaff -- The Avedon eye, trained on faces captured by others -- Photography reveals itself between covers -- Culture in context: photographs in Vince Aletti's magazine collection -- For photography, extreme home makeover -- Theater of the street, the subject of the photograph. On Philip-Lorca diCorcia -- Why photography has supersized itself -- A thousand words? How about $450,000? -- From a studio in Arkansas, a portrait of America. On Mike Disfarmer -- What's new in photography: anything but photos.