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A Photographer Retraces His Grandfather’s 1,300-Mile Escape from a Soviet Prison Camp
In 1945, the final year of World War II, Anton Iwanowski and his brother Wiktor escaped from a Soviet gulag in a stolen rowboat.
Photo Essays
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A Photojournalist's Previously Unpublished Images of Fidel Castro's Cuba in the 1960s
“What would your State Department say if they knew you had been kept incommunicado in the Sierra Maestra with [me] for three days?” Fidel Castro asked Lee Lockwood, an American photojournalist, during a rare, smoke-filled seven-day interview in 1965.
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The Stark Beauty of Japan's Soaring Cormorant Population
Japan has a problem with cormorant overpopulation.
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The Wild, Handmade Guitars of a Man on a Mission from God
One evening in 1979, Ed Stilley, a preacher and homesteader in Hogscald Hollow, Arkansas, found himself feeling he had “no way out” after a deeply troubled period in his life.
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Splendid-Necked Dung Beetles Like You've Never Seen Them Before
Maybe you've never seen a splendid-necked dung beetle before. But even if you have, odds are, you've never seen one like this before.
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A Community Maintains Its Monument
Of all the celebrated structures in the United States, the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, is arguably the humblest.
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House of Worship or Shopping Mall? The Drab Architecture of Megachurches
Of the 75 percent of Americans who identify as Christian, between 2 and 5 million regularly attend a megachurch — a super-sized house of Protestant worship that has a weekend attendance of 2,000 or more people; some draw up to 20,000.
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Butterfly Ovaries and Cockroach Stomachs: Microphotographs as Art
If it hadn't been for Carl Strüwe, a German graphic designer and self-taught photographer, the world may have never come to appreciate the unlikely beauty of a cockroach's stomach.
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The Endangered Film Projectionists of the UK
In The Projectionists, photographer Richard Nicholson documents the people who work the reels at the few movie theaters in England that remain faithful to old-school methods.
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At Spring Masters, a Glimpse of Precious Artworks Before They Change Hands
The Spring Masters fair preview welcomed its visitors with vases full of fresh magnolias, live classical music, and platters of champagne.
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Focusing on Photo Portraits at New York’s Contemporary African Art Fair
Seventeen galleries from all over the world have convened to exhibit the work of pan-African artists and artists of the African diaspora.
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NADA New York Gets Nasty
NADA New York, the New Art Dealers Alliance's (NADA) hometown art fair, has a reputation for showing a certain type of clinical, vaguely cynical, and aggressively cool contemporary art.