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Pittsburgh by W. Eugene Smith, 1955

W. Eugene Smith took over 17,000 photos of Pittsburgh between 1955-1958 which was produced into a monumental photoessay.

8 months ago

Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012)

Neil Armstrong, a modern explorer and (more importantly for us at IP) the first photographer on the Moon, is dead,…

12 years ago

Mushroom Clouds over Las Vegas

From Hoover Dam to Howard Hughes, Iconic Photos look back at the unlikely success of America's last frontier town.  Why…

12 years ago

Smoking Beagles, 1974

It was not her coinage but Mary Beith, who died last month, provided an memorable photo behind the phrase, "Smoking…

12 years ago

Antony Barrington-Brown (1927-2012)

Antony Barrington-Brown, who captured the first pictures of Watson and Crick with their original model of the DNA double helix, has…

12 years ago

Best of the Rest

To ponder the distant beginnings of the shuttle program is to concede what a different time it was. Sunny Ronald…

13 years ago

Atlantis and Mir

As I wrote two days ago, the last time the photo of a space shuttle docked to a space station…

13 years ago

To Boldly Go ….

Editorial: You can just look at the photo above and skip this post if you want. I have been receiving…

13 years ago

The Things They Carried

In addition to astronauts and satellites, the shuttles hauled many mementos into space. With countless telecommunication flotsam and jetsam drifting…

13 years ago

The Challenger Disaster

I have previously written about it, but no history of shuttle program will be complete without one of its low…

13 years ago