"Occupy Oakland, Oakland City Hall," September 2011. © Danny Lyon/Courtesy Phaidon

"Untitled 11 (chair)" from "Basement Sanctuaries." © Gesche Würfel

from "When Morning Comes" © Brandon Thibodeaux

The diversity of people—and what they are doing—is immediately arresting, as the photographs capture intimate portraits of regular and uninhibited New Yorkers in a world of their own. © Aaron Rose/Courtesy Museum of the City of New York

"Spring in New York City." © Darcy Rogers

"Empty New York," 1964. © Duane Michals/Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York

"Kemijarvi, Lapland," from "Nature Meccaniche." © Ottavio Celestino

from "How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity." © Dustin Fenstermacher/Courtesy Quirk Books