Yemen. Reuters photomeh@aol.com, Boston Globe. ”The ’V for Victory’ campaign was launched by the BBC in 1941, 70 years ago, as a symbol of defiance toward the Nazis. In the 1960s it became a peace symbol, and in the 1970s Richard Nixon turned it into a personal political emblem. Here, anti-government demonstrators make it their own.”

Cairo. Photo by Scott Nelson, New York Times. ”The revolution will be televised. And photographed. And Twittered.”

Uganda. Photo by Marc Hofen/AFP/Getty Images, New York Times. ”Mourners at the funeral of David Kato, an advocate of gay rights. Police said he was killed during a robbery, but human rights groups have blamed the Ugandan government for not cracking down of increasing violence against gay men and lesbians in the country.”

Madrid. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images, USA Today, January 31, 2011. ”Unnatural phenomenon: Workers covered a construction site with a sheet painted to look like an abstract building.”

South Carolina. Photo by P. Wesley Tyler Jr., National Geographic, January 7. ”Natural Phenomenon…we hope: The appearance of “hole punch” clouds, like these over Myrtle Beach, have created mild panic. There has been speculation that they are linked to UFOs, secret military experiments, or recent mass bird deaths. A less frightening explanation is that the clouds are simply miniature snowstorms that occur in thin, subfreezing clouds when an airplane flies through them. ” Read more about the phenomenon at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/110128-triple-hole-punch-clouds-haarp-conspiracy-science-second-coming-ufo/.

Underworld. Photos by Christoph Morlinghaus, Wired magazine, February 2011. ”WikiLeaks spills other peoples’ secrets, but where does it keep its own? In a former nuclear shelter beneath the streets of Stockholm that now looks like the set of a James Bond film. Morlinghaus’s extraordinary photo essay about underground storage facilities confirms the generous suspicion that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.”

Underworld. Photos by Christoph Morlinghaus, Wired magazine, February 2011. ”Morlinghaus also photographed the Corbis photo locker in an abandoned limestone mine in Pennsylvania. It’s kept at 45 degrees Fahrenheit and 37-percent relative humidity to protect prints and negatives. After workers are done cataloging all 20 million photos in the collection, the site’s temperature will be dropped to minus-4 degress Fahrenheit.”

Underworld. Photos by Christoph Morlinghaus, Wired magazine, February 2011. ”A chapel built into the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland, where workers can pray before their shiftst.”

Undersea. Photo by David Doubilet, National Geographic, February 2011. ”IMHO, after decades of strapping on air tanks, David Doubilet remains the master of underwater photography. He photographed the sunken remains of a U.S. Coast Guard in waters off Key Largo to show the rich collection of corral and sponges that grow when shipwrecks are turned into artificial reefs.”

Hollywood Then. Marilyn Monroe, 1954. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011 ”One of the great Hollywood photographers, Sam Shaw, is featured in a portfolio from a new book, ’Sam Shaw: A Personal Point of View’ by Lorie Karmath (from Hatje Cantz Verlag).”

Hollywood Then. Lee Remick, 1960. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011

Hollywood Then. Marlon Brando, 1951. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011

Hollywood Then. Sam Shaw and Audrey Hepburn, 1957. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011

Hollywood Now. Photo by Norman Jean Roy, Vanity Fair, March 2011. ”Is this a sign of the times: The magazine said that for this year’s annual Hollywood issue the editors went ’back to basics’ and included no teenagers, no penguins, and no nudity on its cover.”