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london, 1959

photo by sergio larrain, from london 1958-59

baker street underground station, london, 1959

photo by sergio larrain, from classic MAGNUM photography

helen levitt, new york, c. 1945

marseilles, france, 1932

photo by henri cartier-bresson, from henri cartier-bresson: the man, the image & the world

white hall, 1959

photo by sergio larrain, from london 1958-59

london, 1959

photo by sergio larrain, from london 1958-59

inge morath, portugal, 1956

london, 1959

photo by sergio larrain, from london 1958-59

grandfather

levi smith loading his grandson sandy’s popgun with a willow frond, vermont, 1966. photo by grey villet, from the great LIFE photographers.

early dawn in the countryside in heilongjiang province, china, december 21, 1964

photo by li zhensheng, from red-color news soldiers

“…in a radiant dawn over farmland we see two young peasants, presented as both humble and heroic, setting off in search of manure to fertilize the fields. there are also the parades, the patriotic songs that even the children sing, the female soldiers, the posters with mao’s image…” but these pictures are paired with the images of public trials, pillory, placards with insults hung around people’s necks and capital punishment. li, with the red band of a soldier of information on his arm, took the pictures and hid them away. and twenty years later, after one of the longest development processes in the history of photojournalism, he finally printed them.