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the need to find order in what appears to be chaos

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Herbert Behrens, Kralingen festival, The Netherlands, 1970

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German photographers Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta take extraordinary before-and-after-death photos of people. The photos are marvelous and wrenching, the difference between flesh animated and the empty vessel gigantic and unmistakable, even when the before-death shot is of someone terribly ill. 

See all the portraits here

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.. the last flecks of control."

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and when my floor music would play it sounded like Russian Love Torn

Roman Vishniac, A Town Square, Kazimierz, Cracow, Poland, 1936

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Brigitte Bardot visiting the British Museum in London, 1955.

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The Silence (Tystnaden) by Ingmar Bergman, 1963

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Ján Hronský

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Mario De Biasi

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Marc Riboud, Washington, 1967

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

West Germany. West Berlin. 1962. Watching the construction of the Berlin Wall.

“To take photographs is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Gustav Vigeland, Kneeling Man Embracing a Standing Woman

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Helmut Newton

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Bruce Davidson, London 1960 - Girl Holding Kitten

Davidson in The Guardian’s series My Best Shot (wherein photographers describe how they got their favorite photo):

In 1960, I purchased a Hillman Minx convertible, which wasn’t a very expensive car in those days, and drove around England with the top down. It was an American-drive car, which was an advantage because I could snap people on the sidewalk more easily. I also had a sports coat made with the side pockets larger, so I could fit my Leicas in them.

I found this young woman quite by accident, as I was walking the London streets. I came upon a group of teenagers, and struck up a conversation. They took me into a cave, and then some kind of huge dancehall. I think it was on an island. It was getting late, and I needed to move on the next morning, so I didn’t stay very long. But I isolated this girl to photograph, holding that kitten, which was probably a stray she had found on the street, and carrying that bedroll wrapped around her body. There was a great deal of mystery to her. I didn’t know where she had come from, and I didn’t get her name, but there was something about that face - the hopefulness, positivity and openness to life - it was the new face of Britain.

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THE KIDS suffern, new york, 2012

by William Hacker 

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THE KIDS suffern, new york, 2012

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