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.
TALL AFAR, Iraq — Task Force 1-14 conducts a joint foot patrol with the local Iraqi National Guard and the Iraqi police to encourage citizens to vote, January 2005.
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.