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...black-and-white photograph on the wall of his Mass. Hall office, Alan J. Stone looks exhausted, staring into the middle distance as he sits in the Oval Office. President Clinton reads a draft of an address penned by Stone during long and sleepless nights, while several Clinton advisors look to the president, waiting for him to speak before they pass judgment on the speech...
...clear the rubble from the collapsed Juyuan Middle School, Liu stood in silent protest, along with nine other parents who also lost their only children when the schoolhouse crumbled in the quake. For more than an hour, as tears streamed down her face, Liu, 40, displayed a large photograph of Hui Shan, her daughter. It was a mock magazine cover, done up by the grieving mother and some of her friends in an art class. The photo showed the dead girl wearing stylish black glasses and an impish smile. "Sophisticated," the magazine's title read, just above the photo...
Simon, now 33, thought some of the things that make the U.S. the remarkable--and sometimes polarizing--power it is might be hidden in its unseen corners, so she set out to explore those places. She drew up a list of subjects to photograph and began a four-year project to uncover them. "I wanted to show the foundations of America, but sites off the radar," she says. The result is Simon's 2007 book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, just awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. True to the book's title...
...precision in Probst's setups, she doesn't mind showing the clutter in her work, often allowing her swarm of cameras to photograph one another. One shot may thus fool us, while the next reveals the very equipment that did the fooling. The trickery is disarmed by honesty--and we're disarmed along with...
...started taking children's portraits nearly eight years ago, when she shot a couple of rolls of film of her nephew. It took her only one day with that little boy to realize what comes across so vividly in her work: children are the perfect subjects to photograph. "They have no reservations," she says. "They are the most honest models...