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AK-47: An Assault Rifle for Everyman
<< previous image | next image >> It’s probably not a stretch to describe Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AK-47 assault rifle as the most important small-arms weapon of the 20th century. See also:...
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Gadgets Give Soldiers in Afghanistan a Slice of Home
<< previous image | next image >> The heat and the dust and the diesel fumes. The constant drone of the generators, of vehicles, of radio static. The same food everyday, the same meal in...
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Raw Meet | In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them
For decades, photographer Paul Shambroom has trained his lens on the infrastructure of America, from nuclear weapons storage facilities to manufacturing plants; local council meetings to emergency...
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The video calling for a national campaign to raise awareness about Joseph Kony, the International Criminal Court's #1 most-wanted warlord, has been viewed more than 100 million times since it was...
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Veterans’ Photo Scrapbooking Offers New Therapy, Window Into Experiences
Soldiers returning from war face huge obstacles getting back into civilian life: The loss of friends, limbs, minds and perhaps innocence, too, take their toll. As a supplement to traditional therapies...
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South Korean Weapon Expos Are Fun for the Whole Family
Young girls with fingers on machine-gun triggers, old ladies staring down rifle scopes and crowds enraptured by simulated firefights. These are strange scenes for many Western eyes, but for a country...
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Sharp Shooters | HBO’s Witness Goes Inside the Pulse-Pounding World of...
The most shocking and hardest to watch scene in the new HBO series Witness comes when photojournalist Eros Hoagland runs up to a car in Juarez where a young Mexican man sits dying after just being...
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Sharp Shooters | Inside the War Machine: New Documentary Maps an Epic Photo...
Tim Hetherington is trying to explain why he documents war. He launches into a cliché about violence and the "human experience" but quickly stops, laughs and says, "No, that sounds too fucking...
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Haunting Soldier Portraits Capture the Lasting Consequences of War
Want to know how war affects the soldiers who fight it? Just look at their faces. That's the idea behind Lalage Snow's gripping portraits series We Are The Not Dead.
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