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© Thomas Struth

Great, Armstrong Hangar 703, Palmdale, 2014. Chromogenic print, 187.4 x 330.2 cm.

From: THOMAS STRUTH ON DOCUMENTING INVISIBLE SYSTEMS

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© Ami Vitale

Seen by few, but beloved by billions, the giant panda is one of the most recognized animals on the planet. It’s hard to imagine, but these animals, who roamed the earth for eight million years, were only discovered in the last century. Unknown, and hidden from the western world for millions of years, even today they are seen by few but known by most everyone. Found only in central China, the entire species came dangerously close to extinction. Scientists considered the giant panda a relic species; shy, and difficult to breed in captivity. But now there is a glimmer of hope, as years of research are finally paying off. In a region where bad environmental news is common, China cracked the code and is on its way to successfully saving its most famous ambassador. The giant panda was recently taken off the endangered species list!

A cub gets weighed at Bifengxia. In the wild, once they’ve grown to adulthood, female pandas may weigh up to 220 pounds and males up to 250 pounds, and they’ll range from four to six feet long.

From: SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ANNOUNCE 2017 SHORTLIST 

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© Jack Pierson, collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; restricted gift of The Dave Hokin Foundation, image courtesy Cheim & Read, New York

Angel Youth, 1990.

From: JACK PIERSON’S POSTCARDS FROM THE ’90S

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© Mel Rosenthal, courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York and the photographer. 

Groom’s mother guarding the wedding cakes at a Palestinian wedding at Widdi’s Catering Hall, 1999.

From: MUSLIM LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY

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© Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos

Pine Ridge, South Dakota. 2011. While on a road trip with my friend Justin, we met a couple of guys and started chatting. They invited us to check out a spot where they had a rope swing, and on the way we picked up some beer. Dusk was falling and it became a little party, we lit a fire while some of their younger cousins swung over a deep chasm, with just a thin rope around their waist to secure them to the tree. As the beer ran out and the night began to get colder, they invited us back to their home. Upon arrival, their sister (the matriarch of the family) smelled their breath and became furious. She asked us what possessed us to give them beer. She told us there was rampant alcoholism on the reservation, and declared we were just another in a long line of white men exploiting the Lakota. We were filled with tremendous shame and apologized profusely. As she explained the history of the tribe she mellowed and invited us to spend the night. We awoke in the morning to a beautiful dawn, and the youngest children tending to the horses.

From: PETER VAN AGTMAEL EXPLORES THE SUBTLE NATURE OF AMERICAN POWER AND VIOLENCE 

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© Herman Leonard

Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, NYC, 1948.

From: MORRISON HOTEL GALLERY SHOW HONORS GRAMMY AND OSCAR WINNERS 

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© Korhan Karaoysal

Spread from Reason Purpose

From: CAPTURING CULTURAL DUALITIES IN MODERN DAY TURKEY  

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© Lauren Pond

A talented musician, Mack Wolford strums his guitar while his mother, Snook, sings along beside him during an evening bible study, held while filmmaker friends were in town, Bluefield, West Virginia, November 2011.

From: LAUREN POND’S INTIMATE VIEW OF WEST VIRGINIA SERPENT HANDLERS

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Getty Research Institute

Monumental Arch, Louis Vignes, 1864. Albumen print. 8.8 x 11.4 in. (22.5 x 29 cm). The Getty Research Institute, 2015.R.15

The first photograph to capture the Monumental Arch, also called the Triumphal Arch, an icon of ancient Palmyra which was destroyed by ISIL in 2015.

From: THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LAUNCHES AN ONLINE EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION OF PALMYRA

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© Ryan McGinley

Dash, 5:44pm, August 23, 2001

From: RE-EXAMINING RYAN MCGINLEY'S EARLY POLAROIDS

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© Parker Day

Hellcat

From: PARKER DAY’S WEIRD, WILD GLAMOUR STUDIO

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© Magnus Wennman Aftonbladet 

What ISIS Left Behind People - First Prize, Singles 

Five-year-old Maha and her family fled from the village Hawija outside Mosul, Iraq, seven days ago. The fear of so-called Islamic State and the lack of food forced them to leave their home, her mother says. Now Maha lays on a dirty mattress in the overcrowded transit center in Debaga’s refugee camp.

From: SEE THE WINNERS OF WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2017

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Courtesy of Swann

Group of 22 large-format photographs from various NASA missions, including scenes of astronauts floating in space and multiple topographic views of the Earth. With breathtaking iconic images of astronauts Bruce McCandless, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Duke, and Ed White as they traversed through space, taken during Gemini IV, Apollo 11, Skylab 3, and STS-41-B (a Space Shuttle Challenger mission), among others, as well as an array of painterly and abstract topographical views of the Earth, as witnessed from beyond its atmosphere. Ilfochrome prints, the images ranging in size from 19-1/2x19-1/2 to 20x24 inches (49.5x49.5 to 50.8x61 cm), and the reverse, many with numeric notations, in pencil and ink.

From: SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES IS AUCTIONING SOME ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHY ON EBAY 

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© Fred Lyon, Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery

Post & Powell, Union Square, San Francisco, 1947

From: THE BEST THINGS WE SAW AT PHOTOFAIRS SAN FRANCISCO

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© Patty Carroll

Tea Party

From: Anonymous Women by Patty Carroll

From: CAN YOU SPOT THE WOMEN IN THESE PHOTOS? 

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© Richard Mosse, Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Helliniko, 2016

"This is Helliniko in Athens. In 2004, they had the Olympics. It was very hard to get access because the authorities are so ashamed that they had this brilliant Olympic arena, which is now a refugee camp in very squalid conditions."

From: RICHARD MOSSE ON USING A MILITARY GRADE CAMERA TO FIND SIGNS OF LIFE IN REFUGEE CAMPS 

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© Kahlil Joseph, Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

m.A.A.d., 2014

From: IS NOSTALGIA DEAD?