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Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, was seen on a screen in Times Square moments after his company began trading in the third largest initial public offering in United States history.
Photographs from New York, Lebanon, Yemen and West Bank.
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Hasina. Sirajganj, Bangladesh.
Elizabeth D. Herman uses photography as a means to help women involved in past conflicts find a voice, telling stories that previously weren't told.
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Sri Lankan soldiers attended a rehearsal for a parade celebrating the third anniversary of the government’s defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels. The parade is scheduled for Saturday.
Photographs from Sri Lanka, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Portugal.
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Ingrid Bergman. Stromboli, Italy. 1949.
A new exhibit honoring the centennial of Gordon Parks's birth will be seen by millions. That's because the show is in the windows at the International Center of Photography.
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Pool photo by Guido Bergmann
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on the roof of the Chancellery in Berlin. They met to discuss the NATO summit meeting in Chicago this weekend and the signing of a bilateral co-operation agreement between the two nations.
Local firefighters were summoned by neighbors to put out the annual bonfire at the Eddie Adams Workshop in Jeffersonville, N.Y.
Almost 25 years ago, Eddie Adams recruited some of the world's top photographers to teach and mentor a new generation. Today, the tradition continues.
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France’s new president, François Hollande, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris after being inaugurated. Mr. Hollande is the first Socialist to hold the office since François Mitterrand.
Photos from France, Lebanon, the West Bank and England.
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Boot Camp. Elkhorn Correctional Facility, Fresno, Calif.
<br />The photographs of this slide show are a sample from the upcoming exhibition at Photoville.
Photoville, a photography-centered city founded by United Photo Industries, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, will feature shows, food, discussions and more this summer.
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Rebels celebrated capturing the Ouagadougou Convention Center and the Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte, Libya. Oct. 9, 2011.
Nicole Tung, who was in Libya and Egypt documenting last year's upheavals, discussed her inspiration. "I don't want just the shocking photographs to grip people," she said.
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Hussein Malla/Associated Press
In Tripoli, Lebanon, a Sunni gunman fired a machine gun. Lebanese gunmen clashed in street battles as tensions linked to the uprising in Syria continued to cross the border.
Photographs from the Lebanon, Afghanistan, West Bank and Sudan.
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A shepherd tended his flock near Stuttgart, Germany.
Damaso Reyes has been following the changes wrought by immigration and the economy in Europe since 2005 for his project "The Europeans." He is going past the daily headlines - and stereotypes - in hopes of achieving a more subtle portrayal. "If everything was about reconfirming what I thought I'd find, why get on a plane?"
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Horst Faas/Associated Press
South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rested after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn’t come. 1965.
Richard Pyle, former Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press, recalls the star of "that great AP Saigon bureau," Horst Faas, and their work in Vietnam.
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African elephant. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Colorado Springs.
Even 20 years photographing animals couldn't have prepared Joel Sartore for some of the creatures he has encountered working on a series that aims to showcase biodiversity in the United States.
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A Filipino man floated with some of his belongings as fire swept through a sprawling squatters’ colony in Manila. Two people were missing and some 10,000 others were left homeless, officials said.
Photographs from the Philippines, West Bank, England and Mexico.
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Horst Faas/Associated Press
U.S. Army helicopters poured machine-gun fire into tree lines to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops. 1965.
Horst Faas, a prizewinning combat photographer with The Associated Press for nearly a half-century, died on Thursday. He was 79.
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Syrian men carried a body from the site of two powerful blasts in Damascus. At least 55 people were killed in explosions outside an intelligence compound, state television reported.
Photographs from Syria, Nepal, Indonesia and Israel.
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The Martel family, of Irish and Italian descent, celebrated the Fourth of July with friends. They have lived in this house in Brockton, Mass., since the 1950s.
Mary Beth Meehan's photography project compels residents of a Massachusetts town to confront racial and economic tensions.
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A roadside bomb exploded as a convoy protecting a United Nations observer team drove past in Syria. Wounded soldiers after the attack, which targeted their convoy near the restive southern city of Dara’a.
Photographs from Syria, Kashmir, Gaza and Germany.
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Bhaydar Muhammed Kubaisi from the Zaranique tribe jumped over three camels in Beit al-Faqih, Yemen. Camel-jumping is a sport unique to the Tehama region, where tribesman train year-round to perform this feat, said to date back 2,000 years.
Ed Ou, on assignment in Yemen, found an unlikely athletic diversion in the remote region of Tehama - camel jumping.
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A girl clung to her mother in Katmandu, Nepal, as riot police officers enforcing a government crackdown on squatting clashed with people fighting eviction. Dozens were injured.
Vivian Maier/Jeffrey Goldstein Collection
The photographs in this slide show are part of Jeffrey Goldstein’s Vivian Maier collection, which includes a number of images Ms. Maier shot in France in the 1940s and 1950s.
Richard Cahan was on a mission to learn more about Vivian Maier's French roots, and to find the subjects of her early, previously unseen work.
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Riot police officers carried off a protester in Moscow. Vladimir V. Putin reclaimed the Russian presidency under the vaulted gold ceiling of a Kremlin palace, as the police tried to stamp out a second day of protests, passing on orders to detain anyone wearing a white ribbon, the opposition’s symbol.
Photographs from Russia, France, Greece and Germany.
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Bhutan forest. 2007.
James Foley, a video journalist, was with Anton Hammerl, a South African photographer, when Mr. Hammerl was killed by the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya. Now he is part of a team working to raise money for Mr. Hammerl's three children with a large-print auction at Christie's in New York.
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The Flores family children played after school in their trailer park in Mecca, Calif.
Joseph Rodriguez documents the life of several immigrant families on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Chut Wutty burned wood felled by illegal loggers.
The photographer Mathieu Young recalls his week with the activist Chut Wutty, who worked tirelessly to save the forests of Cambodia.
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Moises Saman for The New York Times
Soldiers fired tear gas, water cannons and makeshift rock missiles at protesters near the Ministry of Defense in Cairo’s Abbasseya district.
Photographs from Egypt, China, Pakistan and Mexico.
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Lovers From Tianjin. 2007.
In "Changsha," Rian Dundon's series from the Chinese city where he lived, the place becomes somewhat lost. The images are part of a personal narrative, scenes culled from experience.
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President Obama saluted members of the U.S. military at Bagram Air Base after meeting with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
For the photographer Doug Mills, top-secret missions aboard Air Force One are simple. A couple of changes of clothes, an iPad and some gear. Or something like that.
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A Yemeni man in the capital, Sana, gave the victory sign to fellow protesters during a demonstration demanding the dismissal of members of the country’s former government from top military posts.
Photos from Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and China.
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After the fall of Baghdad, Iraqis and United States Marines toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square. Baghdad, Iraq. April 9, 2003.
Some might see a cooperative as a questionable business model. But groups like VII Photo Agency foster collaborations that allow photographers to pursue a more subtle and personal vision.
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Enrico Caruso as Radames. 1917.
In New York, these men who would be royalty onstage learned how uneasy lies the head who wears a crown.
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