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...after all, just work. “Annie Leibovitz at Work” documents many of the iconic photos Leibovitz has taken throughout her career—from Queen Elizabeth II to Mick Jagger, from Arnold Schwarzenegger to O.J. Simpson, its pages are an interesting and varied assortment of famous, and infamous, characters of this generation...
...photographs and dissect them very carefully and talk about the making of them. I just felt that I wanted to cover more ground and I decided to answer every question I thought anyone could ever have about the work of today so that involved bringing in the more famous pictures like John and Yoko and Demi Moore. The book started off with taking the most talked about pictures that I had done. Then I started to add pictures that were stepping stones in learning how to take pictures, so that if you were a young photographer you could know what...
...shock of enduring the three-day siege of its most famous hotels has jarred Mumbaikars - and fired media hysteria - in a way that, curiously, the city's long history of terror bombings and violence never has before. However, lost in the eulogies to those trapped within the Taj Mahal hotel and the Oberoi-Trident, are the 56 people shot on the same night at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a central rail station for the transiting working class. It was the highest death toll for a single site during the three days of chaos. Many of the dead there were laborers...
...convert poor Londoners - and eventually prostitutes, gamblers and alcoholics - to Christianity. Recognizing that his followers needed more than just religion to improve their lives - and that the way to attract the destitute was the provide services - Booth provided meals, clothing and other assistance to his early converts. He was famous for saying, "Nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache." The quasi-military name "Salvation Army" was given to the charitable church in 1878 - Booth had been known as its "general" even before that - and the first U.S. chapter opened around...
...Allen Buckley with 3.4%. Right now Martin trails Chambliss in polls by as many as five percentage points. The Martin campaign says that speculation that Martin is trailing because blacks aren't drawn to support him without Obama in sight is "one of the vicious campaign tactics Chambliss is famous for." Chambliss, for his part, has a reputation for merciless politicking. He rose to power in 2002 by playing on voters' post-9/11 fears, declaring that Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, a triple amputee and Vietnam veteran, would be soft on Osama bin Laden...