Photography

I mean, if Dick Cheney's dogs can do it, so can you. (Jackson, i.e. Darth Vader, and Dave, i.e. Superman, at the Vice President's residence in 2007.) David Bohrer/AP hide caption

Balloons lie on the side of the closed New York City streets on Monday. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption

Hurricane Sandy's winds are already picking up in Cape May, N.J. Kim Vo (right) captures a Kodak moment of her friend, Lisa Cellucci. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption

Alf Kumalo, a celebrated South African photographer, died Sunday of prostate cancer in Soweto. He was 82. Here, he is seen in April outside the Magistrate Court in Johannesburg, while pursuing a hate speech case against a white man he accused of attacking him with a racial slur. Themba Hadebe/AP hide caption

The photos in his series Congo Democratic "trace some aspects of the individuals and institutions that have been in power in the Congo," writes photographer Guy Tillim. Here, presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba enters a stadium in central Kinshasa flanked by his bodyguards during an election rally. Guy Tillim/Courtesy of Prix Pictet hide caption

L.W. Laptop 2007 Courtesy of Meggan Gould hide caption

Winner - Behavior: Cold-blooded Animals - A yacare caiman waits for fish to come within snapping reach in the shallow, murky waters of Brazil's Pantanal - the biggest wetland in the world. Caimans can grow to be three meters in length. Luciano Candisani/Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 hide caption

Torukun, the eldest daughter of the Kuruman family (third from right), with her father, mother-in-law, sister-in-law and nephews, poses for a photograph outside her house. Torukun raises cattle and lives in a village away from her parents. Go Takayama hide caption

Reporter Ashley Parker transmitted these two different views of the campaign trail via Instagram. In the photo on the left, Mitt and Ann Romney stroll on the beach. On the right, the media pool chases after them. Courtesy of Ashley Parker/The New York Times hide caption

That's Bananas: "Whether [Josephine Baker's] getting a pedicure or she's walking down the street or she's relaxing in a yard somewhere, I just love the variety of pictures of her," Gainer says. "The banana skirt is a part of who she was, it's the most famous thing, but it just annoys me when that's just the only thing. ... There was a lot more to her than that." Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption

The "spirit" photographs of William Hope, via Flickr Commons William Hope/National Media Museum hide caption

The caption for this photo in Edward Curtis' book reads: " ... a masked [Kwakiutl] man personating the thunderbird, dances with characteristic gestures as the canoe approaches the bride's village." Edward Curtis/Library of Congress hide caption

A Free Syrian Army fighter in the Bustan Pasha neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Aug. 21. Courtesy of James Lawler Duggan hide caption