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A series that examines the power of a single photograph, chronicling how modern and historical images have been made.

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GRAHAM This is a 1975 photo of Katharine Graham, first woman elected to the Associated Press' board of directors, who is seated at left during a board meeting in New York City
KATHARINE GRAHAM, NEW YORK, USA

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She was a pioneering newspaper publisher in a room full of men. In history, she wasn't alone

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

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D'Angelo Lovell Williams, 'The Lovers, 2017', from
Contact High (MACK, 2022).

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This photo of a kiss is a modern allegory for queer Black love

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

In this June 8, 1972 file photo taken by Huynh Cong "Nick' Ut, South Vietnamese forces follow terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places. After making the photo, he set aside his camera, gave the badly burned girl water, poured more on her wounds, then loaded her and others into his AP van to take them to a hospital. When doctors refused to admit her, saying she was too badly burned to be saved, he angrily flashed his press pass. The next day, he told them, pictures of her would be displayed all over the world, along with an explanation of how the hospital refused to help.

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'Napalm Girl' at 50: The story of the Vietnam War's defining photo

Oscar Holland, CNN

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A powerful portrait of motherhood and exotic dancing

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

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Elvis reimagined as an Asian American icon

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

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Photo by Pacific Indigenous artist reveals truth about Gauguin painting

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

"Miss (Black) Lesbian"

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A photographer's radical vision of a Black lesbian beauty pageant

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

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Intimate portraits of LGBTQ youths living deep in the Amazon rainforest

Oscar Holland, CNN

Birds at Home, 2007

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Charming, chaotic scenes of family life in small-town America blend reality with fiction

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

Barbara Iweins' "Katalog"

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A photographer cataloged all 12,795 items in her house. This is what she found

Oscar Holland, CNN

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'Frozen in time': Rescued film near Chernobyl shows life before the nuclear disaster

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

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Rebel girls create their own utopia in Justine Kurland's pictures

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN