Photograph by Nigel Shafran

There is a bracing simplicity and subtlety to the black and white portraits in Teenage Precinct Shoppers, a new book of Nigel Shafran’s work published by Dashwood Books. See the work here.

Photograph courtesy estate of Jacques Lowe

Presidential photographers are afforded access to their subjects that most journalists only dream of. But what happens when their original negatives are destroyed? That’s precisely what happened to some 40,000 negatives of the Kennedy family made by Jacques Lowe.

Here, a look at Jacques Lowe’s rare (and recently restored) look at JFK’s Camelot.

Photograph by Grey Villet—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

LIFE presents rare photos from the early days in the fight for gay rights.

Photo by Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME

A decade has passed since the United States invaded Iraq. To mark the anniversary, we asked 55 photographers to share their images made in Iraq that moved them the most.

“I was in Baghdad with a hundred journalists during “Shock and Awe.” When the operation began on March 21st, the prospect of dropping thousands bombs and missiles was frightening for everyone on the ground. On the first night, in spite of the thunderous explosions not far from the hotel the journalists were staying in, we observed that the weapons were destroying the targets with accuracy. After a week of bombings, it was amazing to witness the Iraqis’ remarkable resilience. Most people continued with their daily lives as bombs continued to fall around them. And of course there were airstrikes where many Iraqi civilians were killed. We were being watched by minders all the time, who gave us access to the events they thought were news: civilians affected by the bombing or a press conference at the Ministry of Information. We were not allowed to go anywhere near the military or the Republican Guard. They wanted us to report their side of the story — we couldn’t just get into the taxi and travel around. It was late afternoon when my colleague, Sergey Loiko of the Los Angeles Times, our minder and I entered one of the oldest cemeteries in Baghdad. We didn’t expect to see people there but there were some families who had brought the bodies of their relatives killed by airstrikes. A worker told us he had been busy all day long.” — Yuri Kozyrev

Photograph by Christopher Morris—VII for TIME

Christopher Morris’ photos capture the emotions and sentiments of the crowd as they congregate and wait and watch and, in the end, marvel at the renewal of a 2,000-year old religious institution.

See more:  Waiting for the New Pope

Photograph by Garry Winogrand / © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

A new exhibition at SFMOMA presents a retrospective look at Garry Winogrand’s most iconic and rare photographs. See a selection of the work on LightBox here.

Photograph by Jim Naughten, courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

Fifteen years after his first trip to Namibia, photographer Jim Naughten returned to document the Herero tribe — a people whose history and colorful dress has been indefinitely shaped by their colonial experience. See the work here on LightBox.

Photograph by ©Alfred Wertheimer

On what would have been Nina Simone’s 80th birthday, LightBox celebrates her life and her legacy with a series of Alfred Wertheimer’s magnificent, intimate portraits of the star. 

Pictured: Nina Simone getting ready in a motel room in Buffalo, New York. December 1964. 

Photograph by Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME

TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev went from an embed in Afghanistan to the aristocracy of the Bolshoi Ballet in mere hours in back-to-back assignments for TIME. See the work here on LightBox.

Pictured: Svetlana Zakharova, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, during a curtain call with principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze after a performance of Swan Lake in the Bolshoi Theatre.