Word: photographs
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...Hawaii.) We all jostled into the outline. Taking direction from someone standing in the bleachers, a group of athletes in bright-red varsity jackets clustered in a heart shape in the center of the crowd. They were supposed to represent the bereaved Littleton. We stood there until an aerial photograph was taken. We sent prints of the photograph to Colorado, and for weeks afterward felt awfully proud of the depth of our sympathy...
...inspiration for his mature portrait style, one of the great aesthetic insights of the 20th century. It consisted of high-focus inspection of unsmiling faces against an arctic-white background. Under that light, the body capitulates. Every line and facial sag announces itself. He used that approach to photograph everyone from Abbie Hoffman to Rose Kennedy. But these pictures were not cruel. They were fearless, lucid and unsentimental. As a fashion photographer, Avedon took human vanity to heights even human vanity never dreamed of. As a portraitist, he brought us all back down to earth...
...London. After a stint on the Manhattan Project during World War II, he turned his attention from physics to biology. With his colleague Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick in 1962. DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong...
...Photograph for TIMEby James Nachtwey...
...general executing a Vietcong guerrilla on the streets of Saigon changed the way people viewed the Vietnam War; in New York City. Working for the Associated Press, TIME and Parade magazine, Adams covered 13 wars and won more than 500 photojournalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam photograph. "I wasn't out to save the world," he once said of his work. "I was out to get a story...