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The Angolan exhibit consists of tall stacks of large photographic posters by artist Edson Chagas. The country, which is exhibiting at Venice for the first time, won the Golden Lion award for best national pavilion.

Art In Context: Venice Biennale Looks Past Pop Culture

11:56am August 12, 2013

by Sylvia Poggioli

Every two years, Venice hosts the largest and oldest noncommercial art exhibit in the world. It's a dizzying and eclectic array of sights by both celebrity artists and total unknowns. More than 150 artists from 88 countries will be on display through November.

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Men pass through a busy market of Saidpur village in Islamabad, where the locals buy their daily produce.

World News

Pakistani Photographers Take A Personal Picture Of Home

10:35am June 20, 2013

Last year, National Geographic offered a photo camp for emerging Pakistani photographers to explore the tribal areas of their country.

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Bobbie Hanvey as a child with his father, Johnny Hanvey. Johnny was a lumberjack who used to go everywhere with a camera. He gave one to his son, and set him off on a career as a photojournalist and documentarian.

Music & Culture

Like Father, Like Son: Creating Art In A Time Of Troubles

4:01pm June 19, 2013

by Coburn Dukehart

Bobbie Hanvey is a prolific photojournalist and radio interviewer from Northern Ireland. His son Steafán is a musician, currently on tour in America. In a video featuring their photos and music, father and son reflect on art, their relationship, and the period of turmoil in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles.

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Oxford Paper Company Mill, Androscoggin County, Maine, in 1973 (left) by Charles Steinhacker and 2012 by Victoria Hampshire.

Arts

Documenting America's Environments: Then And Now

2:26pm June 01, 2013

by NPR Staff

In 1971, the the EPA sent photographers around America to document the environmental state of the country. Forty years later, the agency is doing it again. Photographer Michael Philip Manheim talks about returning to some of the locations he photographed.

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In 1948, Thelma Porter became the first African-American Miss Subways.

Books
Arts

'Miss Subways': A Trip Back In Time To New York's Melting Pot

7:13pm May 02, 2013

by April Fehling

Between 1941 and 1976, New York commuters were charmed by posters of regular New York women while riding the city's trains and buses. "Miss Subways" was selected each month by New Yorkers, in a pageant that reflected America's diversity long before the nation's other beauty contests.

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Spc. Tad Donoho exhibits a "pink belly," in which soldiers hit a colleague's stomach until it bruises for his birthday. "[Photographer Tim Hetherington] had this tremendous interest in human beings," Sebastian Junger tells NPR's Renee Montagne. "In some w

World News

In 'Which Way,' A War Photographer In His Element

12:22pm April 18, 2013

by NPR Staff

Writer-director Sebastian Junger remembers his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington, killed in April 2011 by mortar fire in the Libyan city of Misrata.

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'A Lovely Feeling': Celebrating Older Women With Fabulous Style

8:50am April 05, 2013

by Ina Jaffe

The fashion industry is sometimes criticized for unrealistic portrayals of young women. But if you're a woman older than 60, there are almost no portrayals, realistic or otherwise. Now a fashion blog called Advanced Style has made stars of some of these older fashionistas, including a 93-year-old who says the spotlight makes her feel like she's "part of the world."

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Tamil Tigers, Paris, 1990 (painted contact 2006)

Arts

You Can't Put A Headline On William Klein

8:50pm April 03, 2013

by Margot Adler

Try to put him in a box and he'll find his way out. Still working at nearly 85 years old, William Klein has gone rogue in at least four different fields.

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Images Of The Dead And The Change They Provoke

3:50pm March 21, 2013

Disturbing images of the dead and dying have long been used as tools to provoke change. After the tragedy in Newtown, Ct., some are urging the release of the crime photos, hoping that images of the massacre might lead to stronger gun control.

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Saber-toothed cats went extinct after the ice age; paleontologists are not sure what caused their extinction. This cat was brought to life by a puppeteer: It's a creation of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Body puppet, George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar

Science
Arts

It's Called 'De-Extinction' — It's Like 'Jurassic Park,' Except It's Real

9:30am March 19, 2013

by Claire O'Neill

Science writer Carl Zimmer says we're not going to bring back dinosaurs. But we might be able to resurrect other extinct species.

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