America the Beautiful
April is Keep America Beautiful Month. Magnum celebrates the natural beauty of the United States, as well as some of its quirky built environments. UTAH—A family album snapshot at Monument Valley, 1982.
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Book of the Week Fuji by Chris Steele-Perkins The impetus for this three-year project began when Steele - Perkins was offered a gift from his Japanese wife of the famous book by nineteenth-century master printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, "36 Views of Mount Fuji". Struck by the verisimilitude of the prints as historical documents of the life of the peoples around the mountain - woodcutters, fishermen, peasants, aristocrats - as well as the beauty and spiritual aspect of the area, Steele-Perkins began to research further. | Join the Fray © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life. Henri Cartier-Bresson |