Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eagles extended their lead to two with 12:35 left in the game. Freshman Glenn Moller dribbled the ball down the left side and passed to sophomore R.P. Beurlein. Still in stride, Beurlein directed the ball to junior Andy Sage, who put it past Harvard goalie Scott Salisbury...
...other archives. They also solicited advice from museum curators and working photojournalists, particularly in compiling our list of history's ten most important news photos. You may not agree with those choices,* but we hope you will find them -- and the entire issue -- a lively visual history of the past 150 years, as well as a feast...
Think of time as a small stream scattered with flowers and flowing relentlessly past. Pick up a petal. Examine it, savor it, press it away between the pages of private memory. That's photography. Its birth was announced in 1839, when the French Academy made public Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's new process for fixing images on a metal plate and, a few months later, Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot broke the news of his own separate process. Since then, photography has been the best way of making time stand still...
...possible to be entranced by photography and at the same time disquieted by its powerful capacity to bypass thought. Photography, as the critic Susan Sontag has pointed out, is an elegiac, nostalgic phenomenon. No one photographs the future. The instants that the photographer freezes are ever the past, ever receding. They have about them the brilliance or instancy of their moment but also the cello sound of loss that life makes when going irrecoverably away and lodging at last in the dreamworks...
Photojournalism's future depends upon access too. During the past decade, places long closed to the lens have opened up. Some American courtrooms admitted cameras for the first time. So did a few long-sealed precincts of life in the Soviet Union. But there were other spots where, at various times, the lens was met by an official hand raised to cover it: The Iran-Iraq war, the West Bank, the black townships of South Africa and the killing ground of Tiananmen Square. News photographers were banned from the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Soviet bombers fractured Afghan villages away from...