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.
This week, Slate's "Movie Club" debates the year's best films. In celebration of the movies, Slate and Magnum take a look back at films through the ages.
UNITED STATES — Children in a movie theater, 1958.
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.