Steve McCurry: Children at Play
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No matter how dire the situation, how dangerous the environment, children need to play.
Frédéric Hermann: Le transsibérien (photojournalism)
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Benefit
Alfred Smith, one of the country's 1,830,000 unemployed people, who draws two pounds, seven shillings and sixpence a week in unemployment benefit.
Original Publication: Picture Post - 86 - Unemployed - pub. 1939
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Cris Peterson: 100 Days in Glacier National Park
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National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009
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Church in the Alps, Austria (photo)
I took a lot of train shots passing thru wonderful Austria and few thanks to blur and glare where any good. I did like this one of the little chapel high in the snow bound hills near Innsbruck. Seemed like out a dream. Early rains helped decorate these famous mountains with enough white to make the journey truely memorableRead more...
Nick Ut - The photo of Phan Thi Kim
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"When we (the reporters) moved closer to the village we saw the first people running. I thought 'Oh my God' when I suddenly saw a woman with her left leg badly burned by napalm. Then came a woman carrying a baby, who died, then another woman carrying a small child with it's skin coming off. When I took a picture of them I heard a child screaming and saw that young girl who had pulled off all her burning clothes. She yelled to her brother on her left. Just before the napalm was dropped soldiers (of the South Vietnamese Army) had yelled to the children to run but there wasn't enough time."Read more...
Robert Capa
"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough."
“war photographer’s most fervent wish is for unemployment"
On 3 December 1938 Picture Post introduced 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa' with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War.Read more...
But the 'greatest war photographer' hated war. Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913, he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin. Driven out of the country by the threat of a Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933.
He was represented by Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro. Together, they invented the 'famous' American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell his prints under that name. He met Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, and formed friendships with fellow photographers David 'Chim' Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
From 1936 onwards, Capa's coverage of the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly. His picture of a Loyalist soldier who had just been fatally wounded earned him his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war.
After his companion, Gerda Taro, was killed in Spain, Capa travelled to China in 1938 and emigrated to New York a year later. As a correspondent in Europe, he photographed the Second World War, covering the landing of American troops on Omaha beach on D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge.
In 1947 Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. On 25 May 1954 he was photographing for Life in Thai-Binh, Indochina, when he stepped on a landmine and was killed. The French army awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm post-humously. The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955 to reward exceptional professional merit.
Steve McCurry: Path to Buddha (photos around the world)
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Kandinsky
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``Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.''
-- Wassily Kandinsky, 1911
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Helena Christensen: threats of climate change on people living in Peru (photography)
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An exhibition of photographs taken by Helena Christensen documenting the threats of climate change on people living in Peru has opened in London. The photographs premiered at the United Nations in New York when the UN General Assembly met in September and are on a global tour heading to Copenhagen for the UN climate negotiations next month. [BBC]Read more...
Guantanamo Last Days (photos
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As President Obama's administration prepares to finalize details on closing the controversial prison, photographer John Moore catches a rare glimpse of the life for detainees and guards behind the wire. (Photographs by John Moore / Getty)Read more...
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