Topic: Washington D.C.

Monument to late Pope John Paul II is winched into position behind an amusement park in Czestochowa
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Pictures of the Week: April 5 – April 12

Friday, April 12, 2013 | 0

From Margaret Thatcher’s death and a 24 hour vigil for victims of gun violence to elections in Venezuela and the world’s biggest Pope statue, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

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This is Jacques Lowe’s first portrait of John F. Kennedy, made during one of Kennedy’s rare days off from his 1958 Senate re-election campaign. To restore this image for the Newseum’s “Creating Camelot” exhibit, the image was cleaned, the tone adjusted and the yellow mark removed.
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When an Archive is Lost: Jacques Lowe’s Rare (And Recently Restored) Look at JFK’s Camelot

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 | 0

Presidential photographers are afforded access to their subjects that most journalists only dream of. But what happens when their original negatives are destroyed?

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Housing adjacent to U.S. Steel plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1972.
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Bellbottoms, Smog and Afros: Documerica Searches for the Seventies

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | 0

A new exhibition at the National Archives looks into the Documerica Photo Project, an initiative spearheaded by the EPA in the 1970s to capture ordinary Americans in the midst of a transitory era.

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Leonard Freed—Magnum
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This is the Day: The 1963 March on Washington

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 | 0

To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington this August, TIME presents a new book by the J. Paul Getty Museum featuring photographs of the historic rally by Magnum photographer Leonard Freed. LightBox asked Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the NAACP, to share his memories of the march.

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Chris Christie
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TIME’s Class of 2016: The Political Leaders to Watch

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | 0

As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney fought for the presidency this fall, TIME contract photographer Marco Grob was crisscrossing the country to meet the men and women who may be doing the same four years from now.

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Lightbox April 16, 2012
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Pictures of the Week: April 13 – April 20

Friday, April 20, 2012 | 1

From centennial celebrations of the birth of Kim Il-Sung in North Korea and attacks in Afghanistan to the moving of the space shuttle Discovery and Nepalese New Year, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.

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Tim Davis for TIME
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The Desks of Washington D.C.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 | 0

For Election Day 2011, TIME comissioned photographer Tim Davis to peek inside the offices of some of the Beltway’s most powerful people.

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