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Friday April 30, 2010

Tasteful Pictures: The Art Of Food Photography

April 30, 2010 • For as long as there's been food, there have been pictures of it.

Wednesday April 28, 2010

Kainaz Amaria for NPR

Following An Unpredictable Road From India To Pakistan

April 28, 2010 • The NPR team is wrapping up its reporting trip on the India segment of the Grand Trunk Road.

Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation

Lange's "Migrant Mother" is one of her most famous photographs. Dorothea Lange/Courtesy of the Library of Congress hide caption

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Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation

April 28, 2010 • The photographer captured some of the most enduring images of the Great Depression. Linda Gordon, author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, says Lange had the power to draw people out, but she herself was very private.

Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation

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Monday April 26, 2010

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A Closer Look At Chernobyl, 24 Years Later

April 26, 2010 • Photographer Michael Forster Rothbart has spent the past two years exploring the aftermath of the devastating 1986 nuclear meltdown that spread radioactive material across a wide swath of the former Soviet Union and Europe.

Flying Through San Francisco? Stop To Enjoy The Art

Buddha and his attendants stay zen at the bustling Virgin America ticket counter in the International Terminal at SFO. They are part of The Resplendent Stone, an exhibit of Chinese jade pieces on loan from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Beth Novey/NPR hide caption

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Flying Through San Francisco? Stop To Enjoy The Art

April 26, 2010 • The museum at San Francisco International (SFO) makes the airport a destination of its own. Travelers biding time before their flights can see everything from antique gambling machines to precious jades to 18th-century porcelain. With 38 million people coming through the airport each year, the SFO museum sees plenty of traffic.

Flying Through San Francisco? Stop To Enjoy The Art

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Sunday April 25, 2010

Lebanese Artists Evoke Violent Past, Hopeful Future

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Lebanese Artists Evoke Violent Past, Hopeful Future

April 25, 2010 • Nearly 30 artists are featured in Convergence, a new exhibit of Lebanese art currently on display at American University in Washington, D.C. The works articulate painful memories of the country's 15-year civil war — but also emphasize Lebanon's hopes for a promising future.

Lebanese Artists Evoke Violent Past, Hopeful Future

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Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'

Sarah Hoskins

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Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'

April 25, 2010 • When Sarah Hoskins started taking photographs in the tiny towns around Lexington, Ky., she hoped to bring a historic part of America's post-Civil War past to life. Ten years later, she's become part of the community she came to observe.

Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'

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Thursday April 22, 2010

Kainaz Amaria for NPR

The Picture Show

New Photos From An Old Indian Road

April 22, 2010 • Traffic, bulls, literary picnics and sequins. Where else can you get them all in one morning, but along the Grand Trunk Road?

Color Sells: Nickolas Muray's Food Photography

Boy with raisin bread, photograph for the cover of McCall's Homemaking Magazine, ca. 1944 Nickolas Muray/Courtesy of the National Museum of American History Photographic History Collection hide caption

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