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Pride and protest: a photographic history of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights
Images by Fred W McDarrah feature in a new exhibition that follows key moments of community and liberation. The Manhattan photographer Fred McDarrah came to prominence documenting the Beat movement ...World - The Guardian - Yesterday -
Stagecraft and the power of political photographs
With the invention of photography came a new way to view, mythologize and remember the nation's presidents. CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa talks with Washington Post ...Top stories - CBS News - November 3 -
Photographing Every President Since Reagan
Doug Mills reflects on nearly 40 years of taking photos of presidents.Top stories - The New York Times - November 2 -
What happened to the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza detainees
Julia, aged three, looks on from a crowd of fearful and exhausted men. This is her story.Top stories - BBC News - November 1 -
Photographing the New York Times Newsroom on Election Night
Simbarashe Cha and Sara Krulwich, two New York Times photographers, documented Tuesday evening in the newsroom.Top stories - The New York Times - November 7 -
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A nostalgic photographic road trip across Australia – in pictures
When photographer Trent Mitchell was on the road looking for surf all over Australia he’d throw a couple of rolls of film in the bag and snap pictures here and there. He focused on scenes that ...World - The Guardian - 3 days ago -
In Amish Country, George Steinmetz Chases the Perfect Photograph
In his mission to document the earth’s food supply, George Steinmetz recovers the human element in aerial photography — and in farming. Ahead of his new book, he brings our critic into the field.Top stories - The New York Times - 4 days ago -
The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades
Tate Britain, London From Greenham and Orgreave to Belfast and City slickers, visceral images from a turbulent decade jostle for attention in a show that feels overwhelming in its scale and ...World - The Guardian - 3 days ago -
Paul Caponigro, Photographer in Love with Nature, Dies at 91
He photographed landscapes, deer, sunflowers and still lifes. “I knew that the forces of nature were a language,” he said. “Nature was really my teacher.”Top stories - The New York Times - Yesterday -
Photographer killed after accidentally walking into plane propeller in Kansas
Amanda Gallagher was taking pictures of skydivers when she inadvertently stepped back into a spinning propeller. A photographer was killed after inadvertently walking into a spinning airplane ...World - The Guardian - October 29 -
Carlos and Boogie on the subway heading for 42nd Street: Ricky Flores’s best photograph
‘These are my boys on the 6 train. Carlos, on the left, had just come out of the army – and Boogie’s just being Boogie’. When I was 18, I came into an inheritance from my father. I used it to buy a ...World - The Guardian - October 30 -
The 'light sabre' wielding photographer creating colourful light paintings
For 15 years, David Gilliver has been a pioneer in the technique of painting with light.Top stories - BBC News - November 3 -
‘People do not want to believe it is true’: the photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers
Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer . Standing in blinding sunlight on an archipelago above the Arctic Circle, the ...World - The Guardian - November 5 -
Two bondage fans in Cuba: Jean-François Bouchard’s best photograph
‘Felix runs a weekly class teaching the art of Japanese bondage in Havana. It was his idea to have Katy smoking a cigar. They’re part of a subculture most foreigners don’t know exists’. . . . I ...World - The Guardian - November 6 -
Eikoh Hosoe, Photographer Who Elevated the Avant-Garde, Dies at 91
He pioneered a surrealistic narrative style in collaborations with dancers, artists and the author Yukio Mishima, with whom he created startling erotic tableaus.Top stories - The New York Times - November 6 -
Two Florida women arrested after shooting death of photographer is livestreamed
Two women were arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of a photographer that was partially livestreamed on social media, police in Florida said.Top stories - NBC News - November 9 -
Disaster strikes, but a photographer's prized Pat Tillman photo negative survives
Hurricane flooding wiped out photographer Gene Lower's belongings, but a cherished Pat Tillman photo survived.Sports - ESPN - November 7 -
A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph
‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows you’re there’. I was following orangutans in ...World - The Guardian - November 20 -
'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer
When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little notedEntertainment - ABC News - 6 days ago -
Microsoft is finally testing its Recall photographic memory search feature. It's not perfect
Microsoft on Friday finally started letting people test Recall, a so-called photographic memory search feature for the latest Copilot+ PCs. It's not perfect.Business - CNBC - 4 days ago -
Analysis: A Budget for the history books
Nick digs deeper into the Budget following his interview with Rachel Reeves.Top stories - BBC News - October 31 -
The youngest presidents in U.S. history
The youngest president in U.S. history is Theodore Roosevelt, who took office in 1901 at age 42. Here's the full list, from youngest to oldest.Politics - CBS News - November 1 -
The History of Veterans Day
The holiday, which originally marked the end of World War I, was broadened in the 1950s to honor all veterans.Top stories - The New York Times - November 7 -
Taste-testing "Sandwiches of History"
Every week on his blog, "Sandwiches of History," Barry Enderwick rescues sandwich recipes from the dustbin of history. Some of the unlikeliest (and even amazing) historical recipes are now ...Entertainment - CBS News - 3 days ago -
Taste-testing "Sandwiches of History"
Every week on his blog, "Sandwiches of History," Barry Enderwick rescues sandwich recipes from the dustbin of history. Some of the unlikeliest (and even amazing) historical recipes are now ...Entertainment - CBS News - 3 days ago -
October was one of the driest months in history
The month of October proved to be one of the driest months in American history with various states reporting no rain for 31 days. Cities including New York, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia and San ...Politics - The Hill - October 31 -
How the 2024 election compares in history
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report Welcome to The Hill’s Campaign Report newsletter, I'm Jared Gans. Before we jump in today, a note to our ...Politics - The Hill - November 7 -
A look into the history of presidential cabinet scandals
As President-elect Donald Trump continues to fill out his cabinet selections, NBC News' Gadi Schwartz takes a look back at previous cabinet scandals and problematic nominees.Politics - NBC News - 4 days ago -
New Zealand gallery hunts for thousands of people captured by famed photographer Ans Westra
Campaign under way to identify subjects of images shot in 1970s and 1980s by Westra, one of New Zealand’s best-known social documentary photographers. When a black-and-white photo of a man and a ...World - The Guardian - November 8 -
What does safe mean to you? Young photographers share images of family, friendship and hope – in pictures
Restless Development, a global youth agency, asked photographers aged 18-25 from around the world to submit images for the WHO global campaign to end violence against children on the theme of ...World - The Guardian - November 13 -
AP PHOTOS: An AP photographer captures a bomb falling on a building in his childhood neighborhood
As a bomb descended on a multi-story apartment building in Beirut's Tayouneh area Friday, hundreds of onlookers gathered in the street at a traffic roundabout several hundred meters (yards) away. ...World - ABC News - November 15 -
New book from famed photographer focuses on the forces behind the global food chain
Award-winning photographer George Steinmetz has released his sixth book, "Feed the Planet." The book focuses on the people and places powering the world’s food chain, and highlights how those ...World - CBS News - November 16 -
‘I heard the most phenomenal stories’: why 500 women over 50 posed nude for a photograph
The experience of posing nude for the project left some women in tears – but no one ever changed their mind about being photographed. Get Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle ...World - The Guardian - 5 days ago -
American photographer Nan Goldin opens exhibition in Berlin with fiery speech against Israel
American photographer and activist Nan Goldin has used a speech at the opening of her exhibition in Germany to condemn Israel’s war in GazaWorld - ABC News - 4 days ago -
America’s gender-gap election has a long history
The question of whether the US can stomach a woman as president remains openWorld - Financial Times - October 31 -
Largest drug "super lab" in Canada's history is busted
Police also found dozens of handguns, AR-15-style rifles and submachine-guns -- "many of which were loaded and ready to be used."Top stories - CBS News - November 1
