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Steve McCurry:\u00a0Peshawar, Pakistan 1984. I looked for this girl for 17 years and finally found her in 2002. Her name is Sharbat Gula.<\/em><\/p>\n Jeff Widener \u2013 Beijing 1989<\/em><\/p>\n Harry Benson: Brian Epstein \u2013 Beatles Manager \u2013 had just told them they were number one in America \u2013 and I was coming with them to New York. 1964<\/em><\/p>\n Lyle Owerko: No one knew such beautiful warm day would serve as the backdrop to one of the most painful and confusing events to the heart of mankind. This picture is one small part of such a huge event that ties the threads of thousands of stories and millions of people together. Written words will never convey the whole scope of the event, nor summarize the sounds, the smells or even voices that are frozen in my memory bank from that day. I did the best job I could in photographing the 9\/11 so that future generations would have the idea of the scope of what happened, to have the evidence how innocence can so easily be snatched away in a razor\u2019s edged moment in time. My hope is that in time the wounds and pain will heal and that wisdom and peace will prevail among the darkness of this event, so that humanity could move forward into a time of grace and understanding.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Marry Ellen Mark:\u00a0I am holding my photograph of Ram Prakash Singh and his beloved elephant Shyama \u2013 taken in 1990. Ram Prakash Singh was the ringmaster of \u201cThe Great Golden Circus\u201d \u2013 this photograph was done in Ahmedabad, India \u2013 This was part of my Indian Circus Project. I love India and I love the circus, so photographing eighteen circuses all around India was an incredible experience. Unfortunately Shyama died a few months after this photograph was taken \u2013 supposedly, he succumbed to poisoned chapatti \u2013 Ram Prakash Singh was heartbroken \u2013 me also.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Thomas Mangelsen: Brown bear, Brooks Falls Katmai National Park, Alaska. July 1988. I pre-visualized this possibility (of an image like this) from watching documentary films about the bears at Katmai and seeing a photograph in Alaska Air Magazine of a group of bears here at the falls. At the time, I was on a flight to Anchorage working on a documentary film about Sandhill Cranes and had a week between shoots. I phoned the park headquarters from the airport in Achorage and asked about getting a campsite. They said they were all full \u2013 except for one site, that was near the bear trail and nobody wanted it. I told them I would take it. I spent a week on a small platform above the falls trying to captures this image. I would go most days before sunrise and stay until dark. During that time I shot 35 rolls of film of pretty much just head + shoulders of bears + sockeye salmon leaping the falls. Six weeks later I opened the yellow box to see this image. It was a nice surprise. I hadn\u2019t known that I got it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n David Doubilet: \u00a0Circle of Barracuda, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The school of chevron barracudas circled the diver three times and pow they were gone into a dark afternoon sea.\u00a0\u00a0 The oceans of the world have no straight lines; geometry like a perfect circle is a rare thing, but these barracudas will do this as a defense.\u00a0 70% of our planet is an ocean.\u00a0 It is a place of infinite hidden beauty.\u00a0 It is a place where light behaves in a very different manner.\u00a0 Global warming\/ climate change is about water.\u00a0 Coral reefs where I have spent most of my life are very threatened now\u2014not just from rising temperatures but from the change in ocean chemistry = This is a world where my partner Jennifer Hayes and I go into.\u00a0 It is most of our planet.\u00a0 A world without corners that may be gone by the end of the century.<\/em><\/p>\n May Pang:\u00a0Summer 1974 Long Island Sound NY. A relaxing time with his son Julian. I called this photo \u201cFamily Portrait\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Neil Leifer: Ali vs. Liston \u2013 May 25, 1965, Lewiston, Mayne<\/em><\/p>\n Vincent Laforet:\u00a0I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to witness some pretty amazing things in my relatively young career that began twenty years ago. Many were beautiful, others were horrifying; most were important moments in history every event big or small is important. One of the interesting things that I\u2019ve learned through aerial photography is that taking a step backwards (or in this case 1,500 feet up) ironically often forces the view to become much more intimate with the image as they study it in much greater detail, and are forced to let their imagination take over. \u201cMe and my human\u201d Central Park, NYC<\/em><\/p>\n Bob Gruen: John Lennon asked me to come to his pentouse apt. on the east side of New York to take pictures for the cover of his \u2018Walls + Bridges\u2019 album. After we took a series of portraits for the record cover we took some informal shots to use for publicity. I asked him if he still had the New York City t-shirt I had given him a year earlier and he went a put it on and we made this photo.<\/em><\/p>\n Elliott Erwitt: The picture I am holding was snapped in 1974 just across the street from my apartment in New York\u2019s Central Park. It has been 38 years since that event and sadly I have lost track of the participan<\/em>ts.<\/p>\n Lori Grinker: Mike Tyson\u00a0 \u2013 1980, age 14. I began a project on young boxers when I was a student. The legendary Cus D\u2019Amato told me Mike would be the next great heavy weight champion, he was right \u2013 and I continued on with him for nearly a decade. He was a trouble but sweet kid who veered off the good path he was led to with all that comes with being a celebrity in that world.<\/em><\/p>\n Nick Ut: \u00a0June 8, 1972 Trang Bang Village Kim Phuc 9 year-old girl South Vietnam drop napalm in her village.<\/em><\/p>\n Herman Leonard: It was early 1948 at the Royal Roost in New York. An afternoon rehearsal gave me a unique opportunity to photograph many giants of jazz with my trusty 4\u00d75 Speed Graphic. What a great career! To do what you love and be entertained at the same time!<\/em><\/p>\n Douglas Kirkland: This is from my Evening with Marilyn\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Carl Fischer: Muhammad Ali, New York, 1967<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJeff Widener \u2013 Beijing 1989<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nHarry Benson \u2013 The Beatles<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nLyle Owerko \u2013 9\/11<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMarry Ellen Mark \u2013 Ringmaster With Elephant<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThomas Mangelsen \u2013 Brown bear<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nDavid Doubilet \u2013 Circle Of Barracuda<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMay Pang \u2013 John Lennon<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMeil Leifer \u2013 Ali vs. Liston<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nVincent Laforet \u2013 Me And My Human<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nBob Gruen \u2013 John Lennon<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nElliott Erwitt \u2013 Two Dogs With Owner<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nLori Grinker \u2013 Mike Tyson<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nNick Ut \u2013 Napalm Attack In Vietnam<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nHerman Leonard \u2013 Jazz Musicians<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nDouglas Kirkland \u2013 Marilyn Monroe<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nCarl Fischer \u2013 Muhammad Ali<\/h3>\n
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