The Space Race
On this day in 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov took the first spacewalk. Secured by a tether, he spent 20 minutes outside his spacecraft. To honor that feat, Magnum looks back at the space race and the world it created. LONDON—Apollo XII on BBC 2 television, 1969.
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Book of the Week  No Man's Land by Larry Towell No Man’s Land is photographer Larry Towell’s hauntingly beautiful documentary account of the Palestinians during a 10-year period. In it, his black-and-white photographs depict the physical and psychological walls that divide Palestinians from Israelis, and a land divided against itself. | Join the Fray  © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. The noises of men die slowly but as our car rolls over the continental division we know that the waters we will drink from now on will belong to rivers that in their turn belong to the Pacific and not anymore to our grey Atlantic and the noises of animals have taken over. Inge Morath |
