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.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Nine members of the Sarifuddin family were killed in the tsunami. All that is left of their home is the foundation, a broken children's bicycle, and two carpets, January 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.