Word: photographs
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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...
...iconic image of Nazi Germany's defeat is Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph of a young Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag atop the Reichstag over a smoldering Berlin in May 1945. That photograph is to the war in Europe what Joe Rosenthal's image of the planting of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima is to the war in the Pacific, and its author has been called the Soviet Robert Capa. Had the Red Army war photographer received his due over the years, he might well have become as famous as Capa. Instead, it is only now, posthumously, that...
...revolution. In one village that no government representative had yet visited, I met a teacher who could speak a little English. He showed me the rubble of his destroyed schoolhouse. Only two things had been salvaged from the building: a small globe used for geography lessons and a framed photograph of junta leader Than Shwe, which normally hung at the front of the classroom. I asked if the 75-year-old strongman was a good person. The teacher laughed: "No, very bad." So why had he saved the picture? The teacher struggled for the right English word. "Scared," he said...