In June 1958, the union of railroad workers in Mexico went on strike, marking the beginning of a labor dispute that would paralyse Mexico for next two years. Hector Garcia had to launch his own magazine to cover them.
Category: Politics
The President and His Son, 1963
A month before he was assassinated, John F. Kennedy invited Alan Stanley Tretick, a Look photographer, to photograph him and his son.
X = the French Power Elite, 1964
In 1964, Esquire magazine sent Anthony Sampson to profile École Polytechnique (also known as l’X or the X). Sampson was the appropriate choice to chronicle the school which produced the ruling class of France.
Hungarian Uprising by Paris-Match, 1956
The iconic 1956 Paris Match photo of a young, armed couple during the Hungarian Uprising was attributed to late photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini for extra publicity. Russ Melcher, the photo’s real author, revealed himself decades later.
Hungarian Uprising by Mario De Biasi, 1956
Mario De Biasi of Italian magazine Epoca was one of a handful of foreign reporters on the ground when the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 began.
RFK Assassination by Boris Yaro, 1968
Boris Yaro of the Los Angeles Times made one of the most famous photographs in American political history – that of shot RFK cradled in the arms of a hotel busboy who had been shaking the candidate’s hand when he went down.
Private Life of Hitler by Hugo Jaeger, 1936 – 1945
From 1936 until the end of the Second World War, Hugo Jaeger worked as a personal photographer for Adolf Hitler and took color photos.
Borneo, 2001
The tribal war between Madurese and the Dayak began in late 1996, when over 300 people died in ethnic violence in West Kalimantan which lasted for six weeks.
East Timor, 1999
Four days before East Timor was to vote for independence, violence erupted between pro-independence supporters and the Aitarak, a much-feared, black-clothed militia sponsored by the Indonesian government to disrupt the vote.
First Look at Cuban Revolution, 1958
How a Spanish photographer introduced the world to the Castro Brothers, Che Guevara, and the Cuban Revolution.