First Things First

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W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)

Country Doctor

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Edward Steichen

George Gershwin, 1927

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1999 NATO Summit

From Left: Secretary of Defense William Cohen; President Bill Clinton; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger.

Photo by Diana Walker

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Sebastião Salgado

Rwandan refugees. United Republic of Tanzania, 1994

"A baby gazes at his mother, sitting amidst thousands of other Rwandan refugees in a giant encampment near the town of Benako in north-eastern Tanzania.  Fleeing genocidal killings in their country in April 1994, some 350,000 Rwandans crossed into Tanzania in less than a week.  By the end of that year, some 700,000 Rwandans had been killed, 2 million were refugees and an estimated 100,000 children had become separated from their parents.  This national trauma in Rwanda will take generations to heal and continues to be affected by conflicts in surrounding countries."

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Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Bud Fields and His Family, Hale County, Alabama

This image is taken from the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941).  Walker Evans took the photographs and James Agee wrote the narrative.

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W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)

A Walk to Paradise Garden

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Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

"My Favorite Picture of All My Works."
My Niece Julia, April 1867

""Even our friends around are invested with unearthly brightness -- no longer imperfect men, but beings taken into Divine favor, stamped with His seal, and in training for future happiness."  John Henry Cardinal Newman

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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)

Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Manhattan, New York City

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Mary Ellen Marks

The Damm Family In Their Car, Los Angeles, CA, 1987

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Sebastian Salgado

Children's Ward in the Korem Refugee Camp
Ethiopia, 1984