Vaudeville may be long dead and buried, but its infectious, multicultural spirit lives on in Orval Hixon’s evocative glass-plate negatives of forgotten stars like comedian Chic Sale, actress Vera Beresford and countless other. Today’s celebrity photographers could learn a thing or three from Hixon’s ability to capture the essence of a personality in dramatic chiaroscuro.

Although print is still the dominant format for fine art photography books, eBook monographs are just around the corner. Larry Lytle takes a look at where the two formats converge, where they diverge, and how they might coexist going forward

Swedish photojournalist Olof Jarlbro works in the classic W. Eugene Smith tradition: choosing stories that interest him and spending as mucho time as necessary to tell those stories. Whether he’s photographing the ongoing tension between royalist and Maoist in Nepal or exploited laboresrs at a stone factory, Jarlbro never loses sight of the individual caught up in the midst of political and social turmoil