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The Shock, Part 1. ”How do you express the shock of an earthquake in a still image? Itsuo Inouye of the Associated Press Tokyo bureau photographed two of his fellow journalists taking shelter under a table as the world shook.” Photo by Itsuo Inouye/AP, “Big Picture”, Boston Globe

The Shock, Part 1. ”How do you express the shock of an earthquake in a still image? Itsuo Inouye of the Associated Press Tokyo bureau photographed two of his fellow journalists taking shelter under a table as the world shook.” Photo by Itsuo Inouye/AP, “Big Picture”, Boston Globe

The Shock, Part 1 Photo by Itsuo Inouye/AP The Shock, Part 2 Photo from Xinhua/Gamma/Rappho/Getty Images The Wave Photo from Reuters/Mainichi Shimbun Devastation in Perspective, Part 1 Photo from AFP/Getty Images Devastation in Perspective, Part 2 Photo by Itsuo Inouye/Reuters Devastation in Perspective, Part 3 Photo from Kyodo/AP Radiation, Part 1 Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Radiation, Part 2 Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Radiation, Part 3 Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters Alpen Amour Photo by Cyril Ruoso Love American Style Photo by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel Rihanna in Vogue Photo by Annie Leibovitz The Mind, In Color Photo by Thomas Deerinck and Mark Ellisman
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The Shock, Part 1 Photo by Itsuo Inouye/AP The Shock, Part 1. ”How do you express the shock of an earthquake in a still image? Itsuo Inouye of the Associated Press Tokyo bureau photographed two of his fellow journalists taking shelter under a table as the world shook.” Photo by Itsuo Inouye/AP, “Big Picture”, Boston Globe The Shock, Part 2 Photo from Xinhua/Gamma/Rappho/Getty Images The Shock, Part 2. ”Two office workers watch smoke rise over Tokyo after the earthquake. The image turns us into spectators, too.” Photo from Xinhua/Gamma/Rappho/Getty Images, “Lens”, New York Times The Wave Photo from Reuters/Mainichi Shimbun The Wave. ”Few photographs of the actual tsunami wave effectively captured its size and power. This image did just that by showing what was happening in the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture as the tsunami wave was approaching. You immediately understand the danger.” Photo from Reuters/Mainichi... Devastation in Perspective, Part 1 Photo from AFP/Getty Images Devastation in Perspective, Part 1. ”More than any other medium, photographs excelled at conveying the vastness of the devastation following the tsunami. This aerial shot shows vehicles hurled together in Hitachinaka City.” Photo from AFP/Getty Images, “Big Picture”, Boston Globe Devastation in Perspective, Part 2 Photo by Itsuo Inouye/Reuters Devastation in Perspective, Part 2. ”Cargo containers became modernist sculpture, or a child’s set of building blocks.” Photo by Itsuo Inouye/Reuters, ”In Focus”, The Atlantic Devastation in Perspective, Part 3 Photo from Kyodo/AP Devastation in Perspective, Part 3. ”The human toll is given perspective by this image, which shows rescue workers carrying an earthquake victim in Miyako.” Photo from Kyodo/AP, ”Big Picture”, Boston Globe Radiation, Part 1 Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Radiation, Part 1. ”This image of workers at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant is almost formal in composition. It suggests the invisible danger still looming.” Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters, Washington Post Radiation, Part 2 Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Radiation, Part 2. ”Workers in protective gear check for signs of radiation. This image puts a face on what is at stake—a child’s face.” Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters, ”Big Picture”, Boston Globe Radiation, Part 3 Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters Radiation, Part 3. ”Here, a mother talks to her daughter, who has been isolation while being checked for signs of radiation in the Fukushima area. The image expresses a variety of fears.” Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters, Washington Post Alpen Amour Photo by Cyril Ruoso Alpen Amour. ”European common frogs living in the frozen Alps of France don’t have long summers in which to enjoy leisurely romance. When the snows melt, the work begins. Cyril Ruoso shot the photos for this story, in which we learn that the mating act itself can last for two days or more.” Photo... Love American Style Photo by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel Love American Style. ”Noted photographers Cook and Jenshel show how New Yorkers deal with the summer mating season as part of an essay on the city’s High Line park, which was built on an abandoned elevated railway on Manhattan’s West Side.” Photo by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic... Rihanna in Vogue Photo by Annie Leibovitz Rihanna in Vogue. ”If you promise the world’s most beautiful bodies, you’d better start delivering right on the cover. A big success for both Rihanna and Vogue.” Photo by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, April 2011 The Mind, In Color Photo by Thomas Deerinck and Mark Ellisman The Mind, In Color. ”This image was taken from a new book called Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, in which scientist Carl Schoonover describes a new computer-modeling technique allowing researchers to create 3-D images of the smallest components of ...