As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
CHEMPIYANPATTU NORTH, Sri Lanka — Tsunami refugees stay in temporary shelters built by the German nongovernmental organization WeltHungerHilfe, March 2005.
On Dec. 31, 1946, U.S. President Harry S. Truman formally declared the end of World War II. The photographs in this book survey the era during and following the war -- the people and places affected by this extraordinary event.