Category Archives: Photographers

SF Earthquake Photos by Jack London

From SFGate: Jack London’s lens on 1906 quake – Author’s photos, never seen by public, get centennial show

It is still magic after all these years: Slowly the black and white image comes to life in the darkroom tray at the headquarters of the California Historical Society in San Francisco. The picture is from another time, but it is sharp and clear — it is of a huge domed building, all in ruins, as if it had been bombed.

It is the wreckage of San Francisco’s City Hall, destroyed in an earthquake a century ago this spring. It is a remarkable picture, but the photographer was even more remarkable. He was Jack London.

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The Face and Voice of Civilian Sacrifice in Iraq

New York Times:

To take his own measure of the war for The New York Times, Adam Nadel broke from the compulsions that dictate the days of many photographers in Baghdad, the suicide bombings and roadside explosions and assassinations that fill the morgues and the hospitals. Over weeks, he went in search of those who had survived attacks, and others whose lives had been upended by the violence. He visited them in their hospital wards, in their neighborhoods, and in their homes, and captured, in images and in words, what the war has meant for them.

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