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Photojournalism

16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama

Fearing the Worst

A church is bombed. A daughter is missing. A rediscovered photograph recalls one of the most heart-wrenching episodes of the civil rights era

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The Power of Prayer

A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years

Chris Hondros, photographer for Getty Images News Services, captured this image of Joseph Duo and became a defining image of Liberia's protracted strife.

A Soldier’s Story

Photojournalist Chris Hondros, recently killed in Libya, discussed his work in war-torn Liberia with Smithsonian in 2006

A Night at the Opera

Weegee’s wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce

The great Lakota chief Red Cloud at 51, in an 1872 portrait by Alexander Gardner

Chief Lobbyist

He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century’s greatest photographers

James Meredith, center, is escorted by federal marshals on his first day of class at the University of Mississippi.

Down In Mississippi

The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement

Alan Grant photographed Jayne Mansfield in 1957 in her Hollywood swimming pool, among hot-water bottles in her image, which now fetch hundreds of dollars each on Internet auction sites. "I could have been a multimillionare [if I'd saved some]," jokes Grant.

Slices of Life

From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how

Bubley (c. 1960) made wartime photos in Washington, D.C. (1943) on her own.

Private Eye

Noted for her sensitive photojournalism in postwar magazines, Esther Bubley is back in vogue

The stars aligned: Cassius Clay (not yet Muhammad Ali) and the Beatles (in Miami Beach in 1964) would soon ride a tsunami of fame.

Winner by a Decision

When Sonny Liston decided not to meet the Beatles 40 years ago, photographer Harry Benson pulled a switcheroo

Vendors hawking books and magazines say they now openly offer once-banned literature, including religious texts and posters and political tracts.

Baghdad Beyond the Headlines

From gleeful schoolkids to a literary scholar who loves Humphrey Bogart, a photographer captures a reawakening but still wary city

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Too Hot to Handle

Taken at the start of his multifaceted career, Gordon Parks’ photograph of a Washington, D.C. worker was so inflammatory it was buried for decades

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Magic Moments

A new book and a Paris arts center pay homage to photography’s elusive 95-year-old grand master

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dream Assignment

Photographer Bob Adelman’s picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken 40 years ago, captures one of the greatest speeches in American history

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Into the Breach

David Douglas Duncan’s Life photographs captured the courage and anguish of marines in Korea, bringing home the gravity of war

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Just a Snapshot?

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Luminous Joy in the City of Steel

W. Eugene Smith captured the grit and beauty of industrial Pittsburgh

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