World Sight Day
With proper access to medical care, 80 percent of visual impairment can be treated. Today, on World Sight Day, we celebrate people looking, watching, gazing, seeing. KAZAKHSTAN—A band of scrap metal dealers scan while waiting for a rocket to crash, 2000.
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Book of the Week  RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray  © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, [the photographer] may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal. Constantine Manos |
