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1972 | The Tasadays – National Geographic
In the early 1970s, a wave of anthropologists, archaeologists and others who descended on Mindanao, in the southern Philippines. Rainforests there were places that for centuries were rarely entered by outsiders. The Philippines government had discovered the 24 people — who called themselves Tasadays, after their sacred mountain. They were hunter-gatherers who never ventured far…
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1955 | The Sioux by John Vachon
John Vachon, a taciturn, brooding, hard-drinking photographer, traveled around America and around the world for nearly forty years taking photos first for Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later for LOOK magazine. He had come to photography almost by accident: being forced to leave school because of his drinking, he found a job as an assistant…
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1943 | Mussolini is toppled
At the beginning of 1943, the Fascist Italy was looking at bitter defeat. The African front had collapsed in the previous November, exposing Italy to an Allied invasion. Tunis, the last stronghold of the Axis powers in Africa, fell in May and the Allied forces landed in Sicily in July. Benito Mussolini had been Italy’s…
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1967 | Vietnam Heroico by Roberto Salas
The portrayal of the Vietnam War was predominantly influenced by Western journalists and reporters. However, the reporting of the war in the Communist Bloc, particularly in countries like the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern European nations, was markedly different. There, the war was seen primarily through the lens of ideological struggle: a heroic fight of…
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1954 | USSR by Henri Cartier-Bresson
When Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to the Soviet Union in 1954, he was entering a world that most Western audiences knew almost entirely through propaganda, and Cold War paranoia. In the years following the Second World War, with Joseph Stalin’s paranoia over the Western plots against him and his regime, Western journalists and visitors were not…
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1959 | The New China by Henri Cartier-Bresson
While Joachim Heldt and Rolf Gilhausen were documenting China in late 1958 for Stern, another great photographer was also in China. In 1958, LIFE asked Henri Cartier-Bresson to return to China, a country he last covered in at the outbreak of the Communist takeover in 1949. Cartier-Bresson was largely sympathetic to the Communist cause and as…
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1989 | The Soviet Mafia by Hans-Jürgen Burkard
In 1989, photographer Hans-Jürgen Burkard started working for Stern magazine. For the magazine, he produced a series of distinctive photo essays in his signature style of dramatic colour lit with flash, which the magazine often ran in consecutive full-bleed double-page spreads. Often, his subject was Russia during the collapse of the Soviet Union. Burkard was…
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1992 | Penal Colony at Perm by Jane Evelyn Atwood
In the 1990s, Jane Evelyn Atwood visited over 40 prisons in twelve countries across Europe and the United States over a period of one decade to document female incarceration. She managed to get access into some of the world’s worst jails, including death row. She recalled: I am often asked how I could have spent…
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1989 | Tiananmen by Patrick Zachmann
In late June 1989, appeared in Sette — long after they had appeared in newsreels and the photos of Charlie Cole, Stuart Franklin, Jeff Widener — the photos of Tiananmen Square protests, taken by another photographer, the future Magnum member Patrick Zachmann. Ironically, Zachmann was one of the very first foreign photographers to be in Beijing, having arrived there coincidentally just…
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1962 | The Way-Out Way of Life
In fall 1962, California surpassed New York in population to become the most populous state in the United States. Traditionally, New York had been considered the nation’s economic hub, but the shift had been going on for a while, driven by post-World War II growth and immigration. By 1962, 41 percent of U.S. government’s spending…
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1953 | The Conquest of Everest – The Times
At 11:30 am on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest. “Snow conditions bad stop advanced base abandoned May twentynine stop awaiting improvement stop all well,” a message went out from Namche Bazaar in northeast Nepal. The message sound like the expedition had failed. However,…
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2005 | Hell and High Water – Vanity Fair
After the levees gave way in New Orleans, Ron Beinner, the photography editor at Vanity Fair asked photographer Jonas Karlsson and two assistants to accompany him and wade through the city to create a photographic evidence of the unfolding disaster. They interviewed and photographed survivors and first responders, the Coast Guard and the National Guard…
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