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Homesteader Jack Whinery and his family lived in a "soddy"—a dugout home with log walls and sod roof. Electricity came to Pie Town in the 1940s; telephones in the '60s.

Savoring Pie Town

Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life

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Man of Action

An eccentric photographer and a racehorse made history one day in 1878. The world would never look the same

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Dazzle by the Dozen

A 1947 portrait by the renowned Irving Penn broke the fashion mold and celebrated an elegance all too rare today

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Shooting Stars

Photographer Jack Pashkovsky disarmed Hollywood’s royalty with his ardor and persistence

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Profile in Courage

Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment

This image of the Sun's outermost layer, or corona, was taken June 10, 1998, by TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer). The Earth-orbiting NASA spacecraft, launched two months earlier, has an unobstructed view of the Sun eight months of the year. It is helping to solve the mystery of why the Sun's corona is so much hotter (3.6 million degrees Farenheit) than its surface (11,000 degrees Farenheit). TRACE is also shedding light on solar storms, which damage satellites and disrupt power transmissions.

Celestial Sightseeing

From Triton’s active geysers to the Sun’s seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before

After hearing about the attacks, Jenna Piccirillo took her son Vaughan and headed to the rooftop of her Brooklyn home.

September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop

Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the “continuity of life in the face of disaster”

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Picture This

Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners

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Shoot, Don’t Call

Announcing our first-ever photo contest

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Machine Dreams

A new exhibition reconsiders the industrial photographs of Margaret Bourke-White’s early, “rapturous” period

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The Big Picture

Our photographic collections showcase the world from the seafloor to the stars above

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Grim and Beautiful

Learning to love complexity

The Blue Lagoon

Eye in the Sky

A French photographer’s aerial portraits of Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, cotton bales in Ivory Coast, a tulip field in Holland document a world of fragile beauty

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Stieglitz in Focus

A new exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art tracks the development of seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz

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Heroes Then and Now

The carcass of a cargo ship, already sheared of its forward structure, sits where it was parked on the beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, flanked by two other scrapped vessels in various states of dismemberment.

Multiple Viewpoints

Photographer Edward Burtynsky’s politically charged industrial landscapes are carefully crafted to elicit different interpretations

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Shades of Merriment

Robert Capa, famous for his battle photographs, made friends along the way

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cavendish, Vermont 1981 What did the Russian author like about the United States? "[He] told me the air was free in America," Benson recalls.

Cheeky Charmer

For half a century, photographer Harry Benson has been talking his way to the top of his game

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Migrant Madonna

Two wives alternate the responsibility for preparing meals, which involves making the fire, grinding the grain and preparing ngome, breakfast cakes of pounded millet or rice, salt and oil. The cakes are also sold.

What’s for Dinner?

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