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March 16, 2010 | NPR· 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.
March 1, 2010 | NPR· 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.
February 17, 2010 | NPR· 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.
February 17, 2010 | NPR· 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.
February 16, 2010 | NPR· 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.
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