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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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005
Classic Magnum Photography, Part 2
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RUSSIA. Altai Territory. 2000. Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousan
ALTAI TERRITORY, Russia — Villagers collect scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, 2002. Environmentalists fear for the region's future due to the toxic rocket fuel.
PHOTO: Jonas Bendiksen
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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
by Magnum Photographers
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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