Vitro Nasu

Amer. Army nurse 2nd Lieut. Florence Vehmeier walking past GI w. bullet wound in his stomach & rubber tube taped to his lip which drains his stomach through his nose to bucket on the floor in makeshift hospital in Cens Cathedral, during WWII.

WORLD WAR II. The Pacific Campaign. February 1945. The Battle of Iwo Jima (Japanese island). US Marine demolition team blasting out a cave on Hill 382.

Magnum Photos – W. Eugene Smith
(Died: October 15, 1978, Tucson, AZ Smith was 59 years old.)

(Woman bathing her daughter, a victim of mercury poisoning, Minamata, Japan 1971)

It has been called photojournalism’s Pieta. In 1971, Smith and his wife, photographer Aileen Mioko, moved to the
Japanese village of Minamata for three years.
Many regard this as the first photograph to awaken the world to ecological abuse. Page 525 – The Great Life Photographers.

Charlie CHAPLIN. 1952.
Buster KEATON (left) and Charlie CHAPLIN (right) during the shooting of the movie “Limelight”, starring Charlie CHAPLIN, Sidney CHAPLIN, Claire BLOOM and Buster KEATON.

See more photos of Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight set here.

(Nun Waiting for Survivors, Andrea Doria, 1956)

Minamata Homage to W. Eugene Smith
(More photos here)

The Woman Who invented Robert Capa

Google Gerda
Google honors Gerda Taro, a pioneering female war photographer Gerda Taro

Widely considered the first female photojournalist to cover a war, she was also the first to die doing so.

Gerda Taro

(Photo of Robert Capa by Gerta Taro on the right)

(Portrait of John Kiriakou by Andres Serrano)
Torture, Andres Serrano
June 3 – October 8, 2017
Station Museum Alabama

“It’s easy to torture people when you have power over them.” – Andres Serrano

Torture
(Photo by Andres Serrano)

Democracy Now – Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama’s War on Leaks

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Jay Leto interviewed John Kiriakou who was Jay’s High school teacher.

Kiriakou on Snowded at Democracy Now (youtube)

Guardian (April 13, 2017)

Felipe Dana has spent the past three weeks photographing the Mosul offensive. He spoke to us about his experience.

Felipe Dana is from Brazil – (homepage)

In Iraq, hundreds of US troops have been sent to reinforce the assault on Mosul, with many more waiting in the wings

Click and see Children play inside a damaged car amid heavy destruction in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces from Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq.
(Instagram – Felipe Dana)

Felipe Dama won Pulitzer Prise for photo journalism

Photo by Leila Alaoui

Leila’s homepage – see her works.

Leila Alaoui,photographer, born 10 July 1982; died 18 January 2016

Alaoui was in Ouagadougou to work on a photography project for a women’s rights campaign called My Body My Rights for Amnesty International.

The Artist who was killed by jihadists and what she was trying to tell the world.

Family and colleagues pay tribute to a talented young photographer, shot dead by four heavily-armed thugs in an al-Qaeda attack on a popular café in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The Moroccans

See a photo from Lebanon November 2013

Life magazine

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Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971)

See some great photos here Women at Work

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) was a woman of firsts: the first foreign journalist allowed to take pictures of industries in the Soviet Union; the first female photographer hired by Life magazine and its first female war correspondent. In fact, her work graced the first Life cover in November 1936. Bourke-White’s interests ranged far and wide, from photographing the drought victims of the Dust Bowl to chronicling the combat zones of World War II and the violence of the India/Pakistan partition.

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The Guaridan Obit
Bearing witness, losing her life (Lens blogs NYtimes)

French photojournalist Camille Lepage killed in Central African Republic
French president orders immediate despatch of team to ‘shine light on circumstances of assassination’ of 26-year-old

Seeking justice for Camille Lepage

Camille Lepage (Portfolio)

Remembering Camille Lepage (New Yorker – slideshow )

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2nd week of August 2013, South Sudanese professional and amateur models gather to be cast to participate in a catwalk at Festival for Fashion and Peace (FFPA) in Juba, South Sudan. © CamilleLepage_hanslucas.com

See more photos here –We Call it Fashion

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See more photos here – Vanishing Young

One of Anja’s final photos.
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(BBC in pictures)

CBC Canada news

Fujimoto Deliberate tourist, a thrill-seeking photog, dodges Aleppo snipers (Japan times)

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Malcolm Browne’s decision not to intervene and prevent Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation haunted him for many years. He felt that in those seconds he could have saved the monk’s life but he chose to take photographs instead.
Perhaps by doing so and helping to show the world what was happening in Vietnam Malcolm Browne, in his small way, hastened the end of the war thereby saving many other lives at the cost of Thich Quang Duc’s.
Of course, Thich Quang Duc must be given far more credit for changing the world’s perception of the Vietnam War, after all, his was the ultimate sacrifice.
It is said that the only part of Thich Quang Duc’s body that wasn’t burnt was his heart, even after his body was subjected to ritual cremation, and it is kept at the Reserve Bank of Vietnam as a holy relic.(via)

Malcolm Browne (wiki)

Burning Monk Photographer Malcolm Browne Dies + BBC in pictures

Browne chats with David Halberstam of the New York Times (left) (Read more: here.)

Heroine Wake a ‘role model for courage’

“They could not catch her,” he said.
“Whenever somebody dobbed her in, they would go there and she would be gone. Nancy would get away from them.
“The world offered a reward for anyone who could catch The White Mouse. They grabbed her husband, Henri, and the Gestapo tortured him to death.”

Nancy Wake

Farewell to Nancy Wake, the mouse who ran rings around the Nazis
The WW2 resistance heroine, who has died aged 98, was ‘a force of nature’ who topped the Gestapo’s most-wanted list

Charlotte Gray

The story is thought to be based on the exploits of Nancy Wake, codenamed the white mouse, a member of the resistance in war time France and Pearl Cornioley, a British secret service agent.

Lee Miller (repost) by Man Ray
Lives of Lee Miller –

Lee Miller taking a bath in Hitler’s bathroom.

Portrait of Max Ernst by Lee Miller

Time by Paul Moakley

Today, the devastating news arrived that Tim Hetherington had been killed in Misratah, Libya. He was many things: a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker, an artist and friend. He recently won popular acclaim after the documentary Restrepo, which he directed, was nominated for an Oscar.

New Yorker with photo -slideshow

“The media landscape is in flux, and so am I,” said Hetherington. “Who knows what the future holds.”

The Documentary Blog Recommends: Diary by Tim Hetherington
Diary

His homepage

Mohammed Kgarbo
Milton Margai School for the Blind. Sierra Leone. (Photograph by Tim Hetherington)

Restrepo trailer

R.I.P Chris Hondros

Earlier today, April 20, photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed on assignment in Misrata, Libya. He was 41 and recently engaged to be married.
His long list of awards — from being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news photography (2004), to winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal (2005) for “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise” — attest to Chris’s skill and legacy as a photographer