Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The Photos that changed the world


NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos


SOUTH CAROLINA—A funeral of a soldier killed in Vietnam, 1966.
© Constantine Manos / Magnum Photos

SAIGON, Vietnam—The Saigon fire department, which has the job of collecting the dead from city streets, has just placed a girl, killed by U.S. helicopter fire, in the back of their truck, where her brother finds her, 1968.
© Philip Jones Griffiths / Magnum Photos


PESHAWAR, Pakistan—An Afghan girl at Nasir Bagh refugee camp, 1984.
© Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos


TEHRAN, Iran—Veiled women learn how to shoot in the outskirts of the city, 1986.
© Jean Gaumy / Magnum Photos


I truly believe this is when picture speaks more than a thousand of words
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M*A*S*H* Iraq
by Thomas Dworzak

As the US military fights to gain stability in Iraq, doctors, nurses, and medics are working on the front lines to keep the casualties down. Thomas Dworzak was embedded with the 44th, 50th and 115th Medical Companies in Iraq.




IRAQ—An American soldier is killed during the battle for Baghdad, April 8, 2003.
© Alex Majoli / Magnum Photos

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