
Elliot Erwitt :: Managua, Nicaragua, 1957
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images that haunt us

Ralph Crane :: Vikki Dougan in backless dress in the streets, 1957 [for Life Magazine]
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The Flying Wallendas one of the most celebrated aerialists due to their seven-person chair pyramid, first devised in 1947. With no safety net below, their signature act led to tragedy on more than one occasion – the worst occurring in 1962 when three members of the troupe fell to their demise.

Jerzy Wierzbicki ::
Thirty years after its fourth reactor exploded on 26 April 1986, an exclusion zone is still in place around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine [BBC]

Mario De Biasi :: From ‘L’orto delle bambole’ (The doll’s garden), 1970
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Moï Wer [Moïse
Werebeischyk] :: From ‘Ein Ghetto im Osten Wilna’ [A Ghetto in Eastern Vilnius], 1931
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