Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, police experts were analyzing copies of a photograph distributed by the Red Brigades showing Dozier with a bruise under his left eye and holding a placard inscribed with leftist slogans. It read, in part: "The crisis of capitalism generates an imperialist war. Only an anti-imperialist civil war can end the war." A communiqué, the second that authorities have received from Dozier's captors, and a separate 188-page document accompanied the photo. The rambling tract, titled "Strategic Directives December 1981," was the first discussion of the Red Brigades' new policy of violent confrontation with NATO...
...Seng (see above photograph) has survived quite well for someone who, when he escaped into Thailand two years ago, was nearly dead from malnutrition. His father, a doctor, was killed by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge soldiers. The policies of the Khmer Rouge included the execution of Cambodian intellectuals. Kim Seng watched his father being taken away in a helicopter, and for a long time in the refugee camp at Khao I Dang, all he drew were pictures of helicopters...
When the military cracked down last week in Poland, TIME'S team was on the inside, behind the wall of silence, pushing to get the story out. The night that a "state of war" was declared by the Polish government, Correspondents Richard Hornik and Gregory Wierzynski and Photographer Henri Bureau were already in Gdansk, covering what turned out to be the last meeting of the Solidarity union's national commission. Photographer David Burnett, on assignment for TIME, was in Warsaw. In the capital, at least at first, near normality reigned-sunshine, snow and only a few soldiers. "Getting...
...outline of the New World, Washington's hope and anxiety as he crosses the icy Delaware to surprise the Hessians in their Christmas celebrations. "Can you imagine having had thousands of candid and honest pictures of Charlemagne, Kublai Khan or Abraham Lincoln?" asks Yoichi Okamoto, who was official photographer to Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto's excitement is catching. Photojournalism has known many great days since the first news shot 139 years ago, a panoramic view of the destruction caused by the great Hamburg fire of 1842; and the glories of the original LIFE the greatest of all picture magazines...
...over time, a desensitizing effect. Says Floris de Bonneville, Gamma's picture editor in Paris: "The real revolution in photojournalism is in the readers' fatigue. They are no longer shocked or surprised by anything." Contact Partner David Burnett, 34, understood this when he went to Cambodia to photograph refugees. "It is easy to make pictures of people starving," he says "I wanted to take a picture that people would look at again." His shot of a weary and resigned Cambodian refugee holding an infant was an expressionist masterpiece that was judged the best photograph...