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Photography

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Grim and Beautiful

Learning to love complexity

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No Place Like Home

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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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

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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The Thousand-Yard Stare

A Lens on the Land

Twelve noted photographers respond in images to areas designated by the Nature Conservancy as Last Great Places

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Finding the Eye of the Whirlpool

Adventure photographer Peter McBride tells what it was like to shoot whirlpools while hanging from a ship’s radio antenna.

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Preacher on the Go

Tiny Smith Island has three churches but only one pastor, who gets around by boat and Golf Cart

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Photo Tips and Tricks

Put a ghost in your ghost town photographs…and other easy tips to create cool pictures

Executive Images

To assemble “The American Presidency” exhibition, experts scour a treasure trove of historic pictures

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What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Hint: It’s Real

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The Pinhole Point of View

A new generation of photographers is pushing the artistic possibilities of the simple, old-fashioned technique of taking pictures through a hole in a box

Paris by Brassai, Postcard

Brassaà: The Eye of Paris

From mist-shrouded monuments to gritty street scenes, the 20th-century photographer Brassaà created a compelling portrait of cosmopolitan life

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Pictures of a Tragedy

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Growing Pains

A History of Women Photographers

A Traveling Exhibition On Women Photographers Doesn’t Skirt the Issue

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