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Photographer Captures Stark Portraits Of Hunger

"How do you explain to a 2-year-old or 4-year-old there's nothing to eat?" asks Kathy, a homeless mother. Michael Nye hide caption

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Photographer Captures Stark Portraits Of Hunger

In a new exhibit, Michael Nye reveals black-and-white portraits of people who have suffered from hunger. He spent days with each subject — including a homeless mother of two — and distilled their stories into a single image and a five-minute sound clip.

Photographer Captures Stark Portraits Of Hunger

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Saturday

Forgotten Ansel Adams Murals Brought Back To Light

This Ansel Adams photograph of Acoma Pueblo, N.M., is among those now on display, decades after being commissioned. Ansel Adams/National Archives hide caption

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Forgotten Ansel Adams Murals Brought Back To Light

A new exhibit on the walls of the Interior Department's headquarters displays a series of photographs taken by Ansel Adams — murals commissioned in the last century, but never before displayed.

Forgotten Ansel Adams Murals Brought Back To Light

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Thursday

Remembering Jim Marshall, Iconic Rock Photographer

Jim Marshall shot photos for more than 500 album covers. Jim Britt hide caption

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Music News

Remembering Jim Marshall, Iconic Rock Photographer

He fell deeply and irrevocably in love in 1959. The object of his affection? A Leica M2 camera. The late Jim Marshall took his equipment into the jazz and rock scenes of the 1960s and emerged with enduring, intimate images of musical giants.

Remembering Jim Marshall, Iconic Rock Photographer

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Click! Polaroid Snaps Back On The Scene

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Click! Polaroid Snaps Back On The Scene

Once the Apple of its day, Polaroid has fallen by the wayside, thanks to digital photography. Now, with a revamped image and an alliance with self-marketing dynamo Lady Gaga, it's trying to be the oldest new trend.

Click! Polaroid Snaps Back On The Scene

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Monday

Museum Guards 'Sw!pe' The Spotlight

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Fine Art

Museum Guards 'Sw!pe' The Spotlight

A group of guards from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has collaborated on a new art and literary magazine called Sw!pe. Many say the artwork and museumgoers they spend their day watching seep into the work they make when they go home.

Museum Guards 'Sw!pe' The Spotlight

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Sunday

WWII Combat Cameraman: 'The Public Had To Know'

Staff Sgt. Norman T. Hatch was a cinematographer and combat photographer during World War II. He won an Academy Award for his footage of the amphibious assault at the Battle of Tarawa in 1943. U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association hide caption

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WWII Combat Cameraman: 'The Public Had To Know'

During Word War II, Norman Hatch was a combat cameraman who witnessed — and filmed — some of the most bitter fighting in the Pacific theater. His efforts ended with, of all things, an Academy Award — for footage so brutal that it took special permission from President Franklin Roosevelt to allow the film to be shown as a newsreel.

WWII Combat Cameraman: 'The Public Had To Know'

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Tuesday

Civil Rights Photographer Charles Moore Remembered

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is sprawled across a police desk as his wife looks on. He was arrested while trying to attend a hearing for civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and was released when his identity became known to the police. Montgomery, Ala., 1958 Charles Moore/Black Star hide caption

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Civil Rights Photographer Charles Moore Remembered

Charles Moore put faces on the civil rights movement for a nation to see. His photographs for Life magazine reached half of the nation. Images of snarling police dogs, water cannons, the Ku Klux Klan and Bloody Sunday helped spur the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Moore died March 11 at the age of 79 of kidney disease and other ailments.

Civil Rights Photographer Charles Moore Remembered

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Wednesday

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Obituaries

A Pursuit Of 'Waterbirds' Concludes A Variegated Life

Theodore Cross followed many passions over his 86 years: He was a real estate lawyer, a publisher, a White House adviser and a leading spokesman for black economic development. But it was his love of waterbird photography that took him on expeditions around the globe.

A Pursuit Of 'Waterbirds' Concludes A Variegated Life

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Wednesday

Photojournalist Captures 'Polygamy In America'

An elder of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) poses with his family, including his 5 wives. See a gallery of Stephanie Sinclair's photos. Stephanie Sinclair/National Geographic hide caption

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Photojournalist Captures 'Polygamy In America'

Stephanie Sinclair was given rare and intimate access to the men and women of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Sinclair's photos, taken during several periods since April of 2008, appear in National Geographic.

Photojournalist Captures 'Polygamy In America'

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Detective Shot Aerial Photos Of The Twin Towers

Smoke and ash engulf the area around the World Trade Center. See a gallery of aerial images from Sept. 11. Greg Semendinger/NYPD via ABC News/AP hide caption

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Detective Shot Aerial Photos Of The Twin Towers

Nearly nine years after the September 11th attacks, aerial photos of the Twin Towers burning and collapsing were released to the public. New York Police Department detective Greg Semendinger took the photos, and talks about capturing the images while on a rescue mission.

Detective Shot Aerial Photos Of The Twin Towers

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Tuesday

Iconic Magnum Photos Find A New Home

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Iconic Magnum Photos Find A New Home

Earlier this month, billionaire Michael Dell bought the print archive of the Magnum Photo Agency, a collective of photographers co-founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947, and loaned the prints to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The photographers still retain copyright to their images, but now anyone who visits Austin can hold the iconic images.

Iconic Magnum Photos Find A New Home

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Monday

What's 'Too Graphic'? How To Photograph Disaster

NPR photographer David Gilkey and visual journalism and ethics expert Kenneth Irby discuss how to depict human suffering without sacrificing the dignity of disaster victims. Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander explains the decision to run a controversial image of an earthquake victim.

What's 'Too Graphic'? How To Photograph Disaster

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