Okay. The Last Of William Gedney In The Coal Fields. I SWEAR.

6 images that could not be denied. They have digitized only 10% of his work, which amounts to 50,000 pieces. Mouse over the lower edge to start.

William Gedney, Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields, 1964. Duke University Library, Special Collections

Boy Smoker-Eastern Kentucky 1964 Photo By William Gedney

Boy covered by dirt smoking cigarette with one hand, holding can of tobacco in other.

Collection: William Gedney Photographs and Writings
Category: Photographs
Category: Kentucky, 1964 and 1971
Type: Photographs
Box Number: 76
Negative Number: 1245-12-28
Exposure: 1964
Year: 1964
Print: Unknown
Photographer: Gedney, William Gale, 1932-1989
Mark: Stamp
Subject: Cornett Family
Item Number: KY0178

Duke University Library, Special Collections

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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Labels:
Photographers, Margaret Bourke-White, Photography, 1930s

LIFE Magazine Photo Archives

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)

LIFE Magazine Photographic Archives

Young Girl In Dorthea Lange's "Migrant Mother" FSA Photograph (1936) Located

77 year-old Katherine McIntosh, of Modesto, California

Copyright Dorthea Lange via Wikimedia and LOC

Library Of Congress, Prints And Photographs Division, reproduction number LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516

Neatorama:

You may recall the famous photograph known as “Migrant Mother”, taken by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in 1936. It was used over the years to illustrate the Great Depression. Thompson was a migrant worker with seven children who also worked the fields. 77-year-old Katherine McIntosh was the girl burying her head in her mother’s shoulders in the photo. She was four years old at the time.

    “The picture came out in the paper to show the people what hard times was. People was starving in that camp. There was no food,” she says. “We were ashamed of it. We didn’t want no one to know who we were.”

    The photograph helped define the Great Depression, yet McIntosh says her mom didn’t let it define her, although the picture “was always talked about in our family.”

    “It always stayed with her. She always wanted a better life, you know.”

McIntosh talked to CNN about what her life was like in those days. She now lives in Modesto, California. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!

(image credit: Gregg Canes/CNN)(Dorthea Lange/Migrant Mother Photograph:Wikimedia: Library Of Congress

Death Valley, February 1952 Photo By Loomis Dean

Death Valley Scotty
Date taken: February 1952
Photographer: Loomis Dean
Size: 1280 x 1280 pixels (17.8 x 17.8 inches)

LIFE Magazine Photo Archives

'Portrait Of Sarah' Winner, (People) National Geographic Annual Photo Contest (2008)

People Winner:

Portrait of Sarah, age 27

Judges' Comments:
This enigmatic shot is "timeless‚ and has a beautiful simplicity with no pretense," says Monica Corcoran, senior photo producer at National Geographic Digital Media. "I keep looking at the portrait and wondering about this woman," says freelance photojournalist Tyrone Turner. For National Geographic magazine senior photo editor Susan Welchman, "the ambiguous, mysterious style also frees the viewer from knowing when or what time period it was shot. Or is it a painting? All unknowns release the viewer from facts and encourage interpretation."

Photo by Joshua Monaghan


National Geographic Society Annual Photo Contest (2008)

A Talking Tour Eiffel--Photo Honorable Mention National Geographic Photo Contest

Places Honorable Mention

When I was riding the metro during a visit to Paris, France, the view looked amazing. However, when I turned to the other side, there she was, the Eiffel Tower, looking at me almost like she wanted to tell me something. Suddenly, it hit me and I saw the whole image in my mind and that's when I decided to quickly grab my camera and take a few shots, hoping the outcome was the one that I've just pictured.

Photo and caption by Veronica Maglione

National Geographic Society Annual Photo Contest (2008)

James Nachtwey: “I Have Been A Witness, And These Pictures Are My Testimony”

Two of fourteen images by James Nachtwey, published by the Boston Globe [Dot Com],October 3rd.

A big thank you to a peasnpickles life.

Nachtwey's Wish: Awareness Of XDR-TB

"Well-known and influential photojournalist James Nachtwey won the TED Prize last year, and as part of his award, he made a wish for help - help in bringing a story to light that he felt was important and underreported. The subject of this story is a new, dangerous type of tuberculosis called Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. Tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, but inadequate treatment has been driving the emergence of XDR-TB, especially in developing nations. Tuberculosis is not a disease of the past - in 2007 alone, 1.7 million people died from TB - it is the leading killer of people infected with HIV. Nachtwey's wish was that he could break this story, and demonstrate proof of the power of news photography in the digital age. Below are only 14 of many photographs Nachtwey took around the world. For all of the photos, and much more information about XDR-TB, please visit xdrtb.org."

I don't want to belabor the point, but James Nachtwey is, and has been a living master and legend of photojournalism. We lost Phillip Jones Griffiths and Cornell Capa this year, and Nachtwey's mastery can be measured against them and so many others. .

Please see all 7 of these links at the bottom of the Boston Globe piece:

xdrtb.org - Driving awareness of XDR TB
Take Action - What you can do to help
XDR-TB Fact Sheet - from the CDC
Emergence of XDR-TB - from the WHO
Nachtwey's Wish - The story behind Nachtwey's wish to break this story, part of his TED Prize
jamesnachtwey.com - Nachtwey's professional site
James Nachtwey - Wikipedia Entry