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Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
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TEHRAN, Iran — At a February 1979 rally in Amjadiye Stadium in support of the shah, a woman puts a bank note with his picture to her eye, meaning, "He is the light of my eyes."
PHOTO: Abbas
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Crossings Inner-City Youth, London
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Crossings
by Alex Webb

A long-term look at life on the US - Mexico Border from 1975-2001.

 Inner-City Youth, London
by Simon Wheatley

The youth and music of London's public housing developments.
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Book of the Week: Sleeping by the Mississippi
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Book of the Week: Sleeping by the Mississippi
by Alec Soth
Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet often neglected "third coast." Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, the book elicits a mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie.
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Zoom In: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
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Zoom In: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
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On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Ala., bus, helping to spark the civil rights movement.
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