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"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us." -Gandalf
“You’ll have a tale or two to tell when you come back.”
An Afghan woman in May 2002 stands in front of the hole in the cliff where the world’s largest statue of Buddha once stood in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
[Credit : Alexandra Boulat]
Vogue China | Photographer: David Slijper | Model: Fan Bing Bing
(Source: models.com)
In Focus: The American West, 150 Years Ago
In the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O’Sullivan created some of the best-known images in American History. After covering the U.S. Civil War, (many of his photos appear in this earlier series), O’Sullivan joined a number of expeditions organized by the federal government to help document the new frontiers in the American West. The teams were composed of soldiers, scientists, artists, and photographers, and tasked with discovering the best ways to take advantage of the region’s untapped natural resources. O’Sullivan brought an amazing eye and work ethic, composing photographs that evoked the vastness of the West. He also documented the Native American population as well as the pioneers who were already altering the landscape. Above all, O’Sullivan captured — for the first time on film — the natural beauty of the American West in a way that would later influence Ansel Adams and thousands more photographers to come.
See more. [Images: Timothy O’Sullivan/LOC]
Click-through for a photo slideshow of Timm Rautert’s work capturing the Amish and Hutterites, and for a description of his efforts “photographing-those-very-uncomfortable-with-being-photographed”: http://nyr.kr/KSyRFs
Gillian Murphy