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Catherine Leroy Parachutes into Danger
When the Pentagon wanted a photographer to record the largest airborne assault in the Vietnam War, the most qualified candidate was a young French woman.
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Elizabeth Becker
via
American Heritage
on
November 6, 2023
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A Blueprint From History for Tackling Homelessness
During the New Deal, the U.S. knew that economic recovery depended upon housing.
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Jonathan van Harmelen
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Made by History
on
November 2, 2023
A Haunting Portrait of Newark’s Bloody Summer of Unrest
The photojournalist Bud Lee captured the riots of 1967 and the human cost of the brutal police crackdown.
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M. Z. Adnan
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The New Yorker
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July 29, 2023
The Journalist Who Photographed the Burning Monk
The man behind an iconic Vietnam War image captured ‘the ugliest events of our time.'
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Ray E. Boomhower
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Zócalo Public Square
on
June 8, 2023
The Making of Jackie Kennedy
As a student in Paris and a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, the future First Lady worked behind the lens to bring her own ideas into focus.
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Thomas Mallon
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The New Yorker
on
May 1, 2023
Life Goes to Vietnam
Debunking claims that news media fueled public disillusionment and cost the US victory.
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Gregory A. Daddis
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Process: A Blog for American History
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March 29, 2023
Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing
Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.
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Ken Chen
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n+1
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January 25, 2023
Gordon Parks' View of America Across Three Decades
Two new books and one expanded edition of Gordon Parks' photographs look at the work of the photographer from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
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Robert E. Gerhardt
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Blind
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October 28, 2022
Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo of the Vietnam War and Exaggerate Its Impact
The ‘Napalm Girl’ photo is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians.
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W. Joseph Campbell
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The Conversation
on
June 2, 2022
What Gilles Peress Saw on 9/11
The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an “inconceivable event.”
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Margaret Talbot
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The New Yorker
on
September 9, 2021
Cameras for Class Struggle
How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.
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Max Pearl
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Art In America
on
April 21, 2021
The Girl in the Kent State Photo and the Lifelong Burden of Being a National Symbol
In 1970, an image of a dead protester at Kent State became iconic. But what happened to the 14-year-old kneeling next to him?
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Patricia McCormick
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Washington Post Magazine
on
April 19, 2021
Photographer Lee Miller’s Subversive Career Took Her from Vogue to War-Torn Germany
She also acted as a muse to artist Man Ray, with whom she briefly led a relationship.
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Angelica Villa
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Art In America
on
March 19, 2021
When Crime Photography Started to See Color
Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.
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Bill Shapiro
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The Atlantic
on
June 16, 2020
The Dangerous Power of the Photo Op
American photojournalism has always been entangled with race and religion.
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Rachel McBride Lindsey
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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June 9, 2020
The Lost World of Weegee
Depression-era Americans viewed urban life in America through the lens of Weegee’s camera.
by
Terry Teachout
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Commentary
on
August 1, 2018
How WPA State Guides Fused the Essential and the Eccentric
Touring the American soul.
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Scott Borchert
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Humanities
on
October 11, 2023
Re-thinking Black (Im)mobility
The bicycle is a symbol of youth, but in the mid-twentieth century it also symbolized Black joy and mobility.
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Nathan Cardon
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Black Perspectives
on
September 20, 2023
In Babe Ruth’s Final Steps on Public Stage, Two Brushes With History
Babe Ruth's final days revealed his mortality, and made more history, when he encountered a future U.S. president.
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Frederic J. Frommer
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Washington Post
on
June 13, 2023
The View from Here
Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?
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Errol Morris
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Air Mail
on
June 4, 2022
The Kept and the Killed
Of the 270,000 photos commissioned to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed.” Explore the hole-punched archive and the void at its center.
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Erica X. Eisen
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The Public Domain Review
on
January 26, 2022
Pictures at a Restoration
On Pete Souza’s Obama.
by
Blair McClendon
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n+1
on
August 10, 2021
The Anti-Nostalgia of Walker Evans
A recent biography reveals the many contradictions of the photographer who fastidiously documented postwar American life.
by
Rahel Aima
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The Nation
on
June 8, 2021
Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921
Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa massacre and the resilience of Black Wall Street’s residents.
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Karlos K. Hill
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The Public Domain Review
on
May 21, 2021
Obscura No More
How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center.
by
Andy Grundberg
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The American Scholar
on
April 29, 2021
The Whole Story in a Single Photo
An image from the Capitol captures the distance between who we purport to be and who we have actually been.
by
Clint Smith
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The Atlantic
on
January 8, 2021
Whitewashing the Great Depression
How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image.
by
Sarah Boxer
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The Atlantic
on
November 15, 2020
Things as They Are
Dorothea Lange created a vast archive of the twentieth century’s crises in America. For years her work was censored, misused, impounded, or simply rejected.
by
Valeria Luiselli
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New York Review of Books
on
October 29, 2020
When Is a Nazi Salute Not a Nazi Salute?
Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?
by
Matt Seaton
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 25, 2020
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Perp Walks: When Police Roll Out the Blue Carpet
Unfair maneuver or a strong warning to would-be criminals?
by
Bonnie Bertram
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Sandra McDaniel
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Retro Report
on
December 2, 2018
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