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What Happened To The 9-Year-Old Smoking In Mary Ellen Mark's Photo?

Amanda and her Cousin Amy: Mary Ellen Mark photographed Amanda Marie Ellison, 9 (right), and Amy Minton Velasquez, 8, in Valdese, N.C., in 1990. Courtesy of Mary Ellen Mark Studio and Library hide caption

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What Happened To The 9-Year-Old Smoking In Mary Ellen Mark's Photo?

June 27, 2015 • The photographer, who died last month, has a famous portfolio of arresting images. Among them is a shot of two children in 1990. Amanda thought the photo shoot would change her life. It did not.

What Happened To The 9-Year-Old Smoking In Mary Ellen Mark's Photo?

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What's Trending On Instagram? A Battle With Twitter

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All Tech Considered

What's Trending On Instagram? A Battle With Twitter

June 23, 2015 • Instagram wants to be a source for your news. The photo-sharing app is rolling out an update that features trending tags and a beefed-up search tool that should help it compete with Twitter.

Vanity Fair's Twitter page shows its July cover with Caitlyn Jenner. The issue and photo shoot had to be planned in secret. Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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National

Behind The Camera: How 'Vanity Fair' Got Its 'Call Me Caitlyn' Cover

June 6, 2015 • The issue with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover had many people talking before it even hit newsstands. Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter says the story took months of secret planning.

Behind The Camera: How 'Vanity Fair' Got Its 'Call Me Caitlyn' Cover

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Mary Ellen Mark And The Caged Prostitutes Of Mumbai

Rekha is one of the many caged prostitutes Mary Ellen Mark came to know as she photographed in the red-light district of Mumbai. Courtesy of Mary Ellen Mark Studio and Library hide caption

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Goats and Soda

Mary Ellen Mark And The Caged Prostitutes Of Mumbai

May 30, 2015 • The photographer, who died this week, turned her lens on the marginal people of the world. One of her most acclaimed projects was her series of photos taken in the brothels of Mumbai.

Not Your Mother's Catholic Frescoes: Radiant Portraits Of Queer People Of Color

Photographer Gabriel Garcia Roman's "Queer Icons" series portrays queer people of color as saints and warriors. Jahmal Golden is a poet and a student at The New School. Courtesy of Gabriel Garcia Roman hide caption

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Code Switch

Not Your Mother's Catholic Frescoes: Radiant Portraits Of Queer People Of Color

May 28, 2015 • Inspired by Mexican religious art, photographer Gabriel Garcia Roman portrays queer people of color as saints and warriors.

Obituaries

Influential Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies At 75

May 27, 2015 • Mary Ellen Mark's work appeared in such publications as Life and Vanity Fair. Her photo essay on runaway children in Seattle became the basis of Streetwise, an Academy Award-nominated film.

Influential Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies At 75

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How Dorothea Lange Taught Us To See Hunger And Humanity

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. [sic] Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California, February 1937 Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress hide caption

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The Salt

How Dorothea Lange Taught Us To See Hunger And Humanity

May 26, 2015 • Perhaps no one did more to show us the human toll of the Great Depression than Lange, who was born on this day in 1895. Her photos of farm workers and others have become iconic of the era.

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The Two-Way

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies At 75

May 26, 2015 • The influential photographer was known mostly for her humanist work.

It's Not Rude: These Portraits Of Wounded Vets Are Meant To Be Stared At

Army Spc. Jerral Hancock sits for a portrait with his son Julius. It is believed that Hancock was trapped under the wreckage of his Army tank in Iraq for half an hour before he was rescued. Courtesy of David Jay/Unknown Soldier hide caption

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The Impact of War

It's Not Rude: These Portraits Of Wounded Vets Are Meant To Be Stared At

May 25, 2015 • "I take these pictures so that we can look; we can see what we're not supposed to see," says photographer David Jay. "And we need to see them because we created them."

It's Not Rude: These Portraits Of Wounded Vets Are Meant To Be Stared At

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A Rust Belt Story Retold, Through Portraits Of The Women Who Lived It

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LaToya Ruby Frazier

Analysis

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A Rust Belt Story Retold, Through Portraits Of The Women Who Lived It

May 13, 2015 • LaToya Ruby Frazier's photography tells the story of the black community living in the shadow of Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill through portraits of her grandmother, her mother and herself.

Making Art Out Of Bodies: Sally Mann Reflects On Life And Photography

Photographer Sally Mann drives with her greyhound, Honey, in the early 2000s. Michael S. Williamson/Courtesy of Michael S. Williamson hide caption

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Author Interviews

Making Art Out Of Bodies: Sally Mann Reflects On Life And Photography

Fresh Air

May 12, 2015 • Mann has published pictures that show her young children naked, her husband's muscular dystrophy and dead bodies decomposing. She reflects on her life and work in a new memoir called Hold Still.

Making Art Out Of Bodies: Sally Mann Reflects On Life And Photography

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Courtesy of Matt Black

A Landscape Of Abundance Becomes A Landscape Of Scarcity

May 4, 2015 • Photographer Matt Black spends his days capturing images that illustrate the impact of the drought on people living in California's Central Valley.

A Landscape Of Abundance Becomes A Landscape Of Scarcity

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Leave The Selfie Sticks At Home, Wimbledon Says

Tennis fans at this year's Wimbledon will have to take selfies the old-fashioned way, like these fans at last year's championships. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption

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The Two-Way

Leave The Selfie Sticks At Home, Wimbledon Says

April 27, 2015 • Taking the same stance as the Kentucky Derby and major music festivals, the All England Lawn Tennis Club reportedly cited the devices' "nuisance value."

Questioning The Black Male Experience In America

"Question Bridge: Black Males" attempts to represent black male identity in America via a video question-and-answer exchange. At top center is Jesse Williams, the project's executive producer. Question Bridge: Black Males hide caption

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Question Bridge: Black Males

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Questioning The Black Male Experience In America

April 25, 2015 • Redefining the narrative of what it means to be black and male in the U.S. is at the heart of "Question Bridge: Black Males," an award-winning, multimedia art project.

Questioning The Black Male Experience In America

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