Fleet Week
This past week was Fleet Week in New York City, bringing thousands of sailors, Marines, and Coast Guard members to town. Today Magnum looks at Fleet Weeks and military leaves around the country. NEW YORK CITY—With her men at attention on her flight deck, the bow of the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier passes the Statue of Liberty during Fleet Week, 1996.
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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 Struck by the verisimilitude of the prints as historical documents of the life of the peoples around the mountain - woodcutters, fishermen, peasants, aristocrats - as well as the beauty and spiritual aspect of the area,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. A photograph is a subjective impression. It is what the photographer sees ... and in the end, the whole corpus of our work becomes a portrait of ourselves. Marilyn Silverstone |
