stanley kubrick’s new york series
in 1945, for $25, he sold a photograph to look magazine of a broken-hearted newsvendor reacting to the death of president franklin d. roosevelt. a few months later kubrick joined look’s staff to become the youngest staff photographer in the magazine’s history. he continued to work for look until 1950 when he left to pursue filmmaking.
now, for the first time, fine art prints of kubrick’s work as a photojournalist are available for sale.
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stanley kubrick’s chicago 1949
“before he started making movies, stanley kubrick was a star photojournalist. in the summer of 1949, look magazine sent him to chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “chicago city of contrasts.”
- chicago tribune
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war dogs
dogs have been fighting alongside u.s. soldiers for more than 100 years, seeing combat in the civil war and world war i. but their service was informal; only in 1942 were canines officially inducted into the u.s. army.
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left: a u.s. soldier with the 10th special forces group and his dog leap off the ramp of a ch-47 chinook helicopter during water training over the gulf of mexico as part of exercise emerald warrior.
right: a u.s. navy seal, mike forsythe, and his dog, cara recently broke the world record for “highest man/dog parachute deployment” by jumping from 30,100 feet.
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left: staff sgt. erick martinez, a military dog handler uses an over-the-shoulder carry to hold his dog, argo ii, at hill air force base, utah. the exercise helps build trust, loyalty, and teamwork.
right: u.s. marines attached to 1st battalion, 6th regiment, charlie company relax with their bomb-sniffing dogs books and good one in huskers camp on the outskirts of marjah in central helmand.
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chernobyl disaster 25th anniversary
on april 26, 1986, reactor number 4 at the chernobyl nuclear power facility in what is now ukraine exploded. the largest civil nuclear disaster in history led to mass evacuations, and long-term health, agricultural, and economic distress.
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left: graffiti adorns a wall in the ghost city of pripyat near the 4th nuclear reactor (background) at the former chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
right: schoolchildren wear gas masks during nuclear safety training lessons in rudo, ukraine near an isolated zone around the chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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left: beds sit in disarray in a kindergarten in the ghost city of pripyat.
right: a cancer patient leans against the window of a special treatment chamber in a hospital in donetsk, ukraine.
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where children sleep series (photos of children’s bedrooms)
by james mollison
“the project became a vehicle to think about poverty and wealth, about the relationship of children to their possessions, and the power of children – or lack of it – to make decisions about their lives,” says mollison. “i traveled where i could, and many of the pictures result from chance encounters. i hope these images help other children to think about inequality around the world, and perhaps start to figure out how they may respond.”
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jasmine (jazzy), 4, lives in a big house in kentucky, usa, with her parents and 3 brothers. her house is in the countryside, surrounded by farmland. her bedroom is full of crowns and sashes that she has won in beauty pageants. she has entered more than 100 competitions. her spare time is taken up with rehearsals, and she practices her stage routines every day with a trainer. jazzy would like to be a rock star when she grows up.
joey, 11, lives in kentucky, usa, with his parents and older sister. he regularly accompanies his father on hunts. he owns 2 shotguns and a crossbow, and made his first kill – a deer – at the age of 7. he is hoping to use his crossbow during the next hunting season, as he has become tired of using a gun. he loves the outdoor life and hopes to continue hunting into adulthood. his family always eats the meat from the animal they have shot. joey does not agree that an animal should be killed just for sport. when he is not out hunting, joey attends school and enjoys watching television with his pet bearded dragon lizard, lily.
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jamie, 9, lives with his parents and younger twin brother and sister in a penthouse on 5th avenue, new york. jamie goes to a prestigious school and is a good student. in his spare time, he takes judo and goes swimming. he loves to study finance. when he grows up, he wants to become a lawyer like his father.
kaya, 4, lives with her parents in a small apartment in tokyo, japan. her bedroom is lined from floor to ceiling with clothes and dolls. kaya’s mother makes all her dresses – kaya has 30 dresses and coats, 30 pairs of shoes, and numerous wigs. when she goes to school, she has to wear a school uniform. her favorite foods are meat, potatoes, strawberries, and peaches. she wants to be a cartoonist when she grows up.
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where children sleep series (photos of children’s bedrooms)
by james mollison
“the project became a vehicle to think about poverty and wealth, about the relationship of children to their possessions, and the power of children – or lack of it – to make decisions about their lives,” says mollison. “i traveled where i could, and many of the pictures result from chance encounters. i hope these images help other children to think about inequality around the world, and perhaps start to figure out how they may respond.”
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indira, 7, lives with her parents, brother, and sister near kathmandu in nepal. her house has only 1 room, with 1 bed, and 1 mattress. at bedtime, the children share the mattress on the floor. indira has worked at the local granite quarry since she was 3. the family is very poor so everyone has to work. there are 150 other children working at the quarry. indira works 6 hours a day and then helps her mother with household chores. she also attends school, a 30-minute walk away. her favorite food is noodles. she would like to be a dancer when she grows up.
home for this boy and his family is a mattress in a field on the outskirts of rome, italy. the family came from romania by bus, after begging for money to pay for their tickets. when they arrived in rome, they camped on private land, but the police threw them off. they have no identity papers, so they cannot obtain legal work. the boy’s parents clean car windscreens at traffic lights. no one from his family has ever been to school.
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roathy, 8, lives on the outskirts of phnom penh, cambodia. his home sits on a huge rubbish dump. roathy’s mattress is made from old tires. 5000 people live and work here. at 6 every morning, roathy and hundreds of other children are given a shower at a local charity center before they start work, scavenging for cans and plastic bottles, which are sold to a recycling company. breakfast is often the only meal of the day.
lamine, 12, lives in senegal. he is a pupil at the village koranic school, where no girls are allowed. he shares a room with several other boys. the beds are basic, some supported by bricks for legs. at 6 every morning, the boys begin work on the school farm where they learn how to dig, harvest maize, and plow the fields using donkeys. in the afternoon, they study the koran. in his free time, lamine likes to play football with his friends.
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what’s on your helmet?
one way for otherwise voiceless troops to express their feelings about the often-bloody task at hand is to literally write it out on their helmets.
1. “mommy, can i go out and kill tonight?”, afghanistan, 2010.
2. “god”, afghanistan, february, 2004.
3. ”i will strike down on thee with great vengeance”. fallujah, december, 2004.
4. a phrase reading in arabic, “i am the law”. baghdad, may, 2004.
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the scar project: surviving cancer
a series of large-scale portraits of young breast cancer survivors,
shot by fashion photographer david jay.
breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in young women ages 15-40.
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libya 2011 (work in progress)
by michael christopher brown
taken with hipstamatic (an iphone app)
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1. a rebel fires a gun at the site of a plane crash, shot down by rebels. ras lanuf.
2. a decapitated jet pilot at the scene of a fighter jet shot by rebel forces. ras lanuf.
3. the foot of a jet pilot and electronics at the scene of a fighter jet shot down by rebel forces. ras lanuf.
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1. a dead rebel fighter at a morgue. brega.
2. a car of men observing front line fighting. bin jawad.
3. skid marks and graffiti cover a poster of gaddafi. benghazi
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lybia: un air strikes and rebels
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left: vehicles belonging to forces loyal to libyan leader muammar qaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces, along a road between benghazi and ajdabiyah.
right: a libyan rebel smiles next to wrecked military vehicles belonging to moammar khadafy forces hit by french warplanes.
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left: a libyan girl fleeing benghazi sits in a bus as the exodus of civilians began shortly after the first air strikes hit benghazi.
right: rebel fighters gesture in front of burning vehicles belonging to forces loyal to moammar khadafy after an air strike by coalition forces along a road between benghazi and ajdabiyah.
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japan: devastation and fear
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left: an emergency worker throws disinfectant powder in an area affected by an earthquake and tsunami in miyako, iwate prefecture march 14, 2011.
right: a technician in protective gear looks out an automatic door with signs reading “no entry except for those with permission” at a makeshift facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation levels in nihonmatsu, northern japan march 14, 2011.
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left: residents buy food at a temporarily opened supermarket in sendai, northeastern japan march 14, 2011. the supermarket set a limit on buying items at 5 per person. japan battled on monday to prevent a nuclear catastrophe and to care for millions of people without power or water in its worst crisis since world war ii.
right: vessels float on oil spilled water in fudai, iwate, northern japan monday, march 14, 2001.
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japan: devastation and fear
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left: a woman leaves a center to scan residents, who have been within 20km of the fukushima dai-ichi nuclear plant damaged by friday’s earthquake, carrying a metal heat blanket, march 15, 2011, in koriyama, fukushima prefecture, japan.
right: evacuees exercise at a makeshift shelter in minamisanriku, northern japan, march 15, 2011.
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left: evacuees are screened for radiation exposure at a testing center, march 15, 2011, in koriyama city, fukushima prefecture, japan, after a nuclear power plant on the coast of the prefecture was damaged by friday’s earthquake.
right: family photo albums lie in the ruins of the devastated residential area of tsunami hit otsuchi march 15, 2011.
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