Margaret Bourke-White New York City, For Fortune Magazine, 1931

FORTUNE magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White preparing to take a picture from high atop a NYC building.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1931
Size: 883 x 1280 pixels (12.3 x 17.8 inches)
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Photographers, Margaret Bourke-White, Photography, 1930s

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LIFE Photojournalist Larry Burrows, Da Nang, Vietnam, (1965) Vietnam War Conflict

LIFE photographer Larry Burrows attaching cameras to helicopter Yankee Papa 13 prior to a mission during the Vietnam War.
Location: Da Nang, Vietnam
Date taken: 1965
Photographer: Larry Burrows
Size: 862 x 1280 pixels (12.0 x 17.8 inches)

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Army Corps of Engineers Cause Largest Manmade Blast Before Hiroshima, In New York City, 1885

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Photographer Mr. Albee and wife setting up equipment at the foot of 88th St. in preparation for shooting the Flood Rock reef explosion; the Army Corps of Engineers are blowing it up because it is a navigation hazard (the explosion is reputed to be the largest prior to the atomic bomb)
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: October 10, 1885
Photographer: Wallace G. Levison
Size: 1280 x 1011 pixels (17.8 x 14.0 inches)
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Multi-Armed Photographer Clowning, Geneva Switzerland Photo By Hank Walker

Photographer wearing coat with second man buttoned inside, giving weird effect of four-armed man holding camera, during Geneva Conference.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date taken: July 1955
Photographer: Hank Walker
Size: 878 x 1280 pixels (12.2 x 17.8 inches)

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Photographer John Shearer On Assignment, Attica Uprising, New York, 1971

Photographer John Shearer on assignment outside Attica prison during a prisoner riot and uprising.
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 843 x 1280 pixels (11.7 x 17.8 inches)

Narratives From The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, and further: Attica Revisited.

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"Cabinets" For Bodies "Identified" As "John Doe" From The Riots At Attica, September 1971

Closeup of cabinets for bodies and labels which indentify them as "John Doe".
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 1280 x 841 pixels (17.8 x 11.7 inches)

I was pretty young when this happened, but I remember that the Attica Uprising lingered in the collective consciousness for a long time, and was only later forgotten as a tragedy and injustice. More information, here.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt (C) On Assignment Kyoto, Japan 1946

Two geisha women praying for good luck at the Shinto Shrine in the garden of Ichi Riki, the geishaya that is their home & place of employment.
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Date taken: February 28, 1946
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size: 1062 x 1280 pixels (14.8 x 17.8 inches)

Photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, posing for picture w. three geisha girls. Labels:
Photographers, Photography, Japan, People And Customs, Japanese, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Fashions, News, Vintage Print, Women, 1940s
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Date taken: February 28, 1946
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size: 1005 x 1280 pixels (14.0 x 17.8 inches)

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Bathing Beauty W/ Stuffed Tiger On The Beach Fashion Photography Eliot Elisofon 1946

Bathing beauty sitting on back of large [stuffed fake] tiger on beach as photographer sets up camera.
Date taken: 1946
Photographer: Eliot Elisofon
Size: 1280 x 925 pixels (17.8 x 12.8 inches)

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