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The stories behind the image from subjects and photographers.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 | 1

Banding Together for a Fallen Colleague: The Friends of Anton

Joao Silva—The New York Times

A new website, Friends of Anton, launches in an effort to raise money for Anton Hammerl, a freelance photographer who was killed while covering the Libyan revolution.

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Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME
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The Aftermath of 9/11: Ali Abbas by Yuri Kozyrev

Monday, September 12, 2011 | 0

Yuri Kozyrev is known best for his photographs of conflict, but the one photograph he’s taken that may have had the most impact is not of a battle, but of a badly burned 12-year-old boy lying in a Baghdad hospital bed, the victim of a misdirected allied bomb during the Iraq war. TIME revisits the story of Ali Abbas.

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Marco Grob on the Making of Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience

Sunday, September 11, 2011 | 0

TIME contract photographer Marco Grob shares an intimate look into the making of the portraits and oral histories that comprise TIME’s Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience.

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Robert Clark—INSTITUTE
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9/11: The Photographs That Moved Them Most

Thursday, September 8, 2011 | 0

Renowned photo editors, photographers, educators, curators, and bloggers recall the images that moved them most from September 11, 2001

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James Nachtwey for TIME
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Revisiting 9/11: Unpublished Photos by James Nachtwey

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | 4

For the first time in ten years, James Nachtwey returns to the 27 rolls of film that he shot on September 11, 2001 for TIME. While revisiting the negatives, he discovered compelling scenes, previously unpublished. Nachtwey reflects, in an interview with David Levi Strauss, on the immensity of the devastation and the heroism that he witnessed that day.

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Stephane Sednaoui
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Stephane Sednaoui: 9/11 Search and Rescue

Monday, September 5, 2011 | 0

Stephane Sednaoui’s images, published here along with his e-mails in the aftermath of 9/11, are a unique and detailed document of Ground Zero in the days immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Pawel Kopczynski—Reuters
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Perfect Landings: A New Angle on the Long Jump

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 | 0

A combination of astute planning and specially developed remote camera technology produces an artful series of photographs from the World Athletics Championships in Seoul, South Korea.

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The First Earthrise

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 | 1

45 years ago this month, a photo from space forever changed how human beings saw the cosmos.

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Amy Weston—WENN.com
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A Desperate Leap of Faith in London: The Riot Photo That Has the World Buzzing

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 | 1

With each huge news story there is a scramble it seems to find the icon—the single photograph that resonates deeper and more powerfully than the rest, and comes to symbolize the event in the mind of readers. Amy Weston may have captured that image.

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Rothstein’s First Assignment

Thursday, August 4, 2011 | 0

In October of 1935, the FSA photographer Arthur Rothstein came to the mountains of Virginia for his first assignment as a professional photographer. A new film on Rothstein’s life looks back on his work there and into a very disturbing narrative about a eugenics program that left many of his subjects forcibly sterilized.

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