Le Journal de la Photographie

”The battle for Surt, the tribal stronghold of former Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, raged throughout the week. Photographer Ahmad Al-Rubaye put himself in front of the front lines to get this shot of Libyan National Transition Council fighters. At last the city fell to the Transition Council ...

”The battle for Surt, the tribal stronghold of former Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, raged throughout the week. Photographer Ahmad Al-Rubaye put himself in front of the front lines to get this shot of Libyan National Transition Council fighters. At last the city fell to the Transition Council ...

The World: Libya ”The battle for Surt, the tribal stronghold of former Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, raged throughout the week. Photographer Ahmad Al-Rubaye put himself in front of the front lines to get this shot of Libyan National Transition Council fighters. At last the city fell to the Transition Council ... The World: Pakistan ”Residents of Sindh Province watch fuel trucks that were set ablaze by gunmen. The trucks, part of a NATO supply convoy, had been headed for Afghanistan before being turned into a roadside attraction.” Photo by Nadeem Soomro/Reuters, “Framework,” Los Angeles Times The World: Afghanistan Photographer Donovan Wylie’s new book, Outposts: Kandahar Province, focuses on a number of small military bases dotting the Afghan landscape after years of fighting. The forts appear in the photos as ancient temples in a timeless land, a place where war comes, goes, and comes again. The outposts,... The World: Thailand ”Recent flooding has left Thailand’s road systems awash, but not completely unusable. Here a Thai mahout rides and elephant on a flooded street in Ayutthaya Province.” Photo by Sukree Sukplang/Reuters, “Lens,” New York Times Leaders, Part 1 ”At a White House forum on American Latino heritage, President Barack Obama greets U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Leroy A. Petry, a Medal of Honor recipient whose mother is Mexican-American.” Photo by Doug Mills, “Lens,” New York Times Leaders, Part 2 ”Facing a vote of no confidence last week, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appealed for his political survival before Italy’s Parliament. The vote failed to carry, but only barely, leaving Berlusconi unruffled, for now.” Photo by Mauro Scrobogna/Lapresse, via AP, “Lens,” New York Times Sports, Part 1 ”Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Weldon was killed during a 15-car pileup during the opening laps of an Indy-Car race in Las Vegas on September 16. Photographer Robert Laberge captured the fiery crash in a number of remarkable images. In this frame, a car driven by Australian Will Power is s... Sports, Part 2 ”Another gruesome moment from another dangerous sport, captured in detail by the camera: Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla is gored in the head during a bullfight in Zaragoza, Spain on October 7.” Photo by Javier Cebollada/EPA, “Lightbox,” Time Sports, Part 3 ”Captured from a remarkable angle above home plate, David Freese of the St. Louis Cardinals scores against Milwaukee Brave catcher Jonathan Lurcoy during the fifth inning of game six of the baseball’s National League Championship Series. The Cardinals won the game and the series and now face the ... Occupational Hazard, Part 1 ”The ’Occupy Wall Street’ demonstrators clashed with police this week as they marched through the winding streets of Manhattan’s financial district. Here, one of the protesters encounters the strong arms of the law.” Photo by Mary Altaffer/AP, “Lens,” New York Times Occupational Hazard, Part 2 ”The ’Occupy Wall Street’ protests have now gone global, much to the apparent distaste of this businessman in London, where ’Occupy the London Stock Exchange’ demonstrators have set up camp. The New York Times recently noted that in private many bankers speak disdainfully of the protesters: ’Thei... Women in the News, Part 1 ”Photographing other photographers can be a tricky proposition, especially if the photographer is also a poet, musician, writer, artist, and cultural icon. Nonetheless, photographer Anton Corbijn managed to capture Patti Smith’s ’relentless vision’ for this cover story.” Photos by Anton Corbijn, ... Women in the News, Part 2 Women in the News, Part 3 ”’Reading Joan Didion on any subject is like tiptoeing across a just-frozen pond filled with beautiful sharks. You look down and pray the ice will hold. Meeting her is not a vastly different experience’, writes Boris Kachka in this week’s New York magazine. Didion’s latest book, Blue Nights, tell... Women in the News, Part 4 ”In the space of two years, says W magazine, hip-hop star Nicki Minaj has ’made the leap from little known Lil Wayne protégée to object of national obsession’. For the magazine’s November issue, Minaj makes the leap into court of Louis XV of France. In these images, artist Francesco Vezzoli trans...