The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is displaying nine photographs of President John F. Kennedy and his family taken by Richard Avedon for Harpers Bazaar. The photos will be on view until Feb. 28.

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Rock history, whether in pictures or in words, starts with Elvis Presley. Here, in this magnificent photographic album, the King quite naturally launches the festivities with invited guests and candidates to Rock’s pantheon. As the author, Ute Eskildsen, emphasized in his intro...

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Everyone has seen images of the boat skeletons littering the shores of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Many reporters have covered the sufferings of this population whose bare hands and feet blister from working in the pollution and acid.

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The Great Crossing of Africa is the first of a series devoted to colonial history. The book features pictures from Captain Albert Baratier (1864-1917) taken during the Congo-Nil mission, initiated by Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934) from July 1896 to May 1899. The mission wa...

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