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Our 10th Annual Photo Contest Ends Today at 2 PM EST!

Enter your best shots by November 30th at 2 PM EST, and compete to win our grand prize!

Michelangelo

For Michelangelo, Quite a Tome

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A Skydiving Photographer Reveals Almost All, but for One Secret

Having made more than 1,000 skydives, some 600 with a camera, daredevil adventurer Andy Keech has hot-dogged it with the best of adrenaline junkies.

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Candid Expression

Photographer Kevin Connolly, who was born without legs, prefers to use a skateboard rather than a wheelchair

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No Touch-Ups Necessary

“My imagination runs away with me,” says Mozert (in an undated photograph). His underwater stills shaped the image of Silver Springs for more than four decades.

The Life Aquatic with Bruce Mozert

When the photographer gazed into the crystalline waters of Silver Springs, Florida, in 1938, he saw nothing but possibilities

GRAND PRIZE WINNER A tribal birth in India Purulia, India • Photographed August 2007 Six days after Betka Tudu's birth, female relatives and neighbors in the West Bengal village of Purulia gathered to bless him and "to protect him from harm's way," says Dey. Born into the Santhal tribe, Betka "unknowingly drew his distant kin closer than ever." — Abigail Tucker

5th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2007 contest

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Portraits of Resistance

The inaugural show of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Celebrating Resistance

The curator of a portrait exhibition discusses how African Americans used photography to resist stereotypes

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Portrait of the Kennedys

Never-before-published photographs reveal a personal side to the first family

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Red Light Photo

"We must have run up and down that street 300 times," recalls co-star Carol Lawrence (with Larry Kert).

West Side Glory

Out of Hell’s Kitchen came an image that would epitomize one of Broadway’s greatest love stories

Karl Struss (1886-1981). "Two women in front of a vine covered country store," c. 1910.

In Living Color

An obscure photographic process unveiled 100 years ago opens a fresh window on the past

(Shea Beebe, age 36, Converse, Texas, Photographed May 2006) Beebe took a photograph of her then-8-year-old daughter, Peyton, layered an image of a tree over it and added "gold tint to give it a more dream-like quality." Often, Beebe, who plans to pursue a photojournalism degree this fall, will look at unaltered photos "and try to imagine what they could be if I added an unusual color or layered them with another photo of mine."

Prize Pictures

Our photo contest attracted thousands of photographers from 86 nations. And the winners are…

Joelle Linhoff, winner of our 4th Annual Photo Contest, spent three days on a hill overlooking a New Zealand pasture before she snapped the photo that would net her the grand prize. “I just took as many photos as I could,” she says, “using as much film as I had brought. I allotted one whole roll of film to the pasture.”

Capturing the Moment

The winner of the 4th Annual Photo Contest shows off her work in this exclusive photo gallery

Contemporary Art is OK

Edward Bernard's "Orbis eruditi", comparing all known alphabets as of 1689

An Alphabet of Pictures

GRAND PRIZE WINNER A winter dawn in a New Zealand pasture

4th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2006 contest

In his picture of Y. A. Tittle, Morris Berman captured the vanquished warrior's bloody struggle. But the now-classic photograph wasn't even published at first.

Fallen Giant

“A whole lifetime was over,” legendary quarterback Y.A. Tittle recalls

Future president Richard M. Nixon.

When He Said “Jump…”

Philippe Halsman defied gravitas

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