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US press review by Paul Melcher

AP Facebook page. An Indian Muslim Sufi devotee uses a sharp objects as he self flagellates during a procession to the revered Muslim Shrine of Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Monday, May 21, 2012. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Vanity Fair. It was the assignment of an ambitious young photographer’s dreams: capturing Hollywood’s sexiest star for Look magazine in 1960. Lawrence Schiller’s chemistry with Marilyn Monroe seemed promising, and their professional relationship deepened when he photographed her on the set of her final, never-finished movie, Something’s Got to Give. The breathtaking nude shots from that shoot, some unpublished till now. Photographs by Lawrence Schiller

Time.com : Khaled Abdullah—Reuters May 22, 2012. Military cadets march during a parade marking the22nd anniversary of Yemen's reunification in Sana'a.

French actress and mistress of ceremony Berenice Bejo arrives on stage to deliver a speech during the closing ceremony of the 65th Cannes film festival on May 27, 2012 in Cannes. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONIN THUILLIER —

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Guardian.com : A Yawalapiti boy dips his head into the Xingu river. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

Jing Daily : Lü Yan shot on the Great Wall by Chen Man . photo by Chen Man

Chicago Tribune : A Chicago police officer covering his face stands beside protester as they wait in line at a Burger King during the protests. — Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune, May 20, 2012

Treats Magazine .Filles de Nuit photographed by Steve Lyon

Palmbeachpost.com. A cyclist rides his bike at a skateboard park, May 22, in Austin, Texas. Temperatures reached a high of near 90 degrees in the Austin area.Eric Gay / AP

Charlotte Observer. A goat stands inside a barber shop on a road leading to the shrine of Sufi saint Muhammad Moin-ud-din Chisti on May 22 in Ajmer, India. Thousands of Sufi Muslim pilgrims from across India converge on the north Indian town of Ajmer to mark the Urs festival of 12th-century Sufi saint from Persia who is buried in Ajmer. Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images

National Geographic. Slackline, Rio de Janeiro Photograph by Tim Kemple The sunset slackline image is of Renan Ozturk slack lining over the Gavea Stone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AP Facebook page. An Indian Muslim Sufi devotee uses a sharp objects as he self flagellates during a procession to the revered Muslim Shrine of Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Monday, May 21, 2012. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Life is always a hard balance. Wether we convert to banality or we run towards the untravelled paths, we always try to find the right equilibrium, the one that set us in motion. More than often, we seek objects to help find this precarity that we so love to discover. Photography certainly loves to document these moments. Actually, some of the greatest images, the ones we remenber fondly, are all about capturing these fraction of seconds where everything is in balance and about to fall in place. What makes them iconic is that, even if we know the outcome, at the moment these images were taken, no one knew. This is what we see in most of the images published this week . We find ourselves observing others that seek, purposely or not, to reinvent their lives by attempting to put them on hold between two possible outcomes, some dramatic. The photographers that brought us these images are exceptionally in tune with their surroundings and must be themselves, somehow, looking for the same result.
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