Word: photographs
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When Lt. Col. Eric Durr, a member of the New York State Army National Guard, left his Albany, N.Y., home in April 2004 bound for Iraq, his wife placed a framed photograph of him in the dining room. Two years later, when she deployed to Iraq also with the Army Reserves, Durr placed a photo of her, Lt. Col. Heather Brownell, in the same spot. For their kids, Steve, now 13, and Stephanie, 16, the war in Iraq is more than just flickering images on a television screen. To them, it means a life of constantly shifting family dynamics...
...describing life on the front. I stood mesmerized, reading postcard after postcard. I struggled through, first, the messy, smudged handwriting, second, my mediocre to decent French reading skills, and third, my disbelief that people could express themselves so concisely and poignantly on the back of a four by six photograph...
...ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH OF Marines raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima remains a symbol of America's will during World War II. Yet what the famous photo captured was the second flag raising over the Japanese island. Charles Lindberg was the last surviving member of the group of Marines that raised the initial flag atop Mount Suribachi, the first time the flag had been planted on Japanese soil. Fearing it was so small it would be taken as a souvenir, a commander ordered the original flag removed. When a bigger one went up four hours later--and photographer Joe Rosen...
...Bankston, though, who himself is viewable on a street view photograph walking to work, says that these Street Views represent an ominous invasion of privacy. "We're moving into a future where not only must you realize the risk that you might be photographed in public, but where it's becoming a near certainty that you will be captured any time you go out," he says. "It's indicative of the direction in which we're moving - where everything occurring anywhere is Google-able...
John W. Wronoski on Dec. 11, owner of the Square used book store Lame Duck Books, after discovering that nearly a million dollars’ worth of Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts that were presumed stolen were actually hiding in a photograph binder in the store. News of the manuscripts’ disappearance had made headlines around the world of book collecting...