Gary Winogrand’s photograph, White Sands Monument, is a stunning view of a picnic table in the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. The white dunes are composed of powdery gypsum. The figures have left their Chevrolet and set out a picnic lunch under the picnic awning to shelter them from the intense sun and […] read more

Bell often picnicked for entertainment and worked as Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner in Baghdad) and spy. Often, the two were indistinguishable. Once using the picnic as a deception, she and her companions took an official (not identified) to a lonely beach, where they interrogated him. “So we bathed from a little sandy island […] read more

When Rothrock photographed this picnic party of soldiers and their wives and companions in the desert at Fort McDowell, that temperature was probably 92 degrees, give or take. The group had gone to the desert to celebrate May Day, and Rothrock accompanied them. His work wagon is in the rear, partly obscured by a saguaro […] read more