If “the image is never identity,” as one art historian has noted, then what is it? Face Forward surveys the American collection for representations of individuals both traditional and unorthodox. If ...

Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Standing out in a series of photographs in our archive depicting ...

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London has entered into a partnership with the photographic agency Magnum Photos. Portraits of leading women in British life, taken by female photographers from ...