"What the camera had to do was expose the evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the discrimination and the bigotry, by showing the people who suffered most under it. That was the way it had to be done."
— Gordon Parks
Parks was born on this day in 1912.
📷 Ella Watson, 1942 (Library of Congress)
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"After nearly two weeks of documenting the harrowing journey of a caravan of mostly Central American migrants headed towards the U.S.-Mexican border, I snapped a picture I will never forget."
Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon writes about the photograph he took on Sunday of a migrant mother and her young daughters running away from a discharged tear gas canister at the US-Mexico border. https://reut.rs/2QlD00z
📷 A migrant family, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America to the United States, run away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 25, 2018.
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Ladies and gentlemen, "The Critic" by Weegee.
📷 Weegee, November 22, 1943 https://bit.ly/2AjiTWX
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Reuters photojournalist Zohra Bensemra covers conflict, humanitarian issues and stories about women and politics in the Middle East. She recently documented the fighting against Islamic State in Mosul and Raqqa and the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Bensemra will be joining us in London during #WomeninFocus. https://reut.rs/2z1Ywhd
📷 Displaced women wait to be transported while Iraqi forces battle against Isis in western Mosul, on 27 February.
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🇺🇸 Happy #VeteransDay! We salute the brave soldiers who have served. 🇺🇸 https://bit.ly/2AZAPHB 📷 Robert Capa, [American troops landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France], June 1944 #ICPCollections
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In early 2018, photographer Hannah McKay was awarded a Pulitzer Prize—she was among a team of Reuters photographers honored for their coverage of the plight of Rohingya refugees. On Tuesday during #WomeninFocus—our event in London with Reuters—we're bringing together some of the world’s most prolific female photographers. https://reut.rs/2z1Ywhd
📷 Rohingya refugees are helped out of the Naf River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.
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A portrait of Robert Frank by Eugene Richards.
Frank is 94 years young today—he was born in Zurich, Switzerland on this day in 1924. https://bit.ly/2CtiS6Y
📷 Robert Frank, New York, 2013
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VOTE ✅
📷 Bruce Davidson, Alabama, 1965 (Magnum Photos) https://bit.ly/2rxVOOg
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You're looking at JFK's hands. How did Cornell Capa get the shot? "I was on the truck, on my knees, using a very wide-angle lens. I was trying to get lower and lower so that I could be on the level of the people's faces. Before I knew it, I was sitting on Kennedy's shoes." http://bit.ly/2xo9dGW
📷 John F. Kennedy reaching into a crowd of supporters, North Hollywood, California, 1960 #FlashbackFriday
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One more day until "Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time" opens at the #ICPMuseum!
This image recalls classic street photography in the lyricism of the child’s spontaneous gesture, juxtaposed with abraded advertising for Wonder Bread. The slogan’s promise of building “Strong Bodies 12 Ways” suggests both the irony and the enduring humanity of the gritty atmosphere of the neighborhood where Richards grew up. The asymmetrical composition, its space slightly distorted with the use of a wide- angle lens, conveys the instantaneity of the moment.
On view September 27, 2018–January 6, 2019.
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2rYvSsb
📷 Wonder Bread, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1975
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Spotlight on The Photojournalist
The man behind Andreas Feininger's iconic image is Dennis Stock. https://bit.ly/2tyn00o
📷 Andreas Feininger, 1951 #ICPCollections
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