”The United States joined other countries that in recent months have seen large street demonstrations provoked by an ongoing financial crisis. Protestors have converged on New York City’s financial district over the past several weeks. The focus of the demonstrator’s ire includes the influence of corporate money in politics. For the most part, the “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been peaceful, but over the weekend some 700 people were arrested when they marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Is the stage set for a populist uprising? Isn’t that what the Tea Party is supposed to be all about?” Photo by Frank Franklin II/AP, “In Focus,” The Atlantic
u201dJobs became an emblem of a new age and a new chapter in human history, the face of the machines that changed how we live. As such, he was a worthy subject for many of the most renowned photographers of the day. For it's special commemorative issue on Jobs, Newsweek went with a cover photo by Hiro, also taken in 1984.u201d Photo by Hiro, Newsweek
u201dThe u201cOccupy Wall Streetu201d protest spread to Los Angeles, where it took on local flavor. Activists looking some media coverage showed up outside the courthouse where Michael Jackson's former doctor is on trial for involuntary manslaughter.u201d Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP, u201cLens,u201d New York Times
u201dNot every protest this week had to do with the international financial mess. New York hosted a 'Slutwalk' protest against sexual violence toward women. The essential theme of the protest was captured by the sign seen in the photo at right: 'We Are Souls, Not Holes'.u201d Photos by David Shankbone via Flickr, The Huffington Post
u201dAusterity measures continue to provoke street protests in Greece. Here, high school students in Athens confront riot police.u201d Photo by John Kolesidis/Reuters, u201cFramework,u201d The Los Angeles Times
u201dInside an unused billboard in Sanaa, Yemen, protestors demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh took a break from demonstrating in order to pray.u201d Photo by Hani Mohammedrnu201cFramework,u201d Los Angeles Times
u201dThe monsoon season again brought flooding and desperation to Pakistan. Here, Pakistani villagers displaced by floods showed identity cards at a relief station near Hyderabad.u201d Photo by Pervez Masih/AP, u201cLens,u201d New York Times
u201dMonsoons mixed with tropical storms to create watery misery throughout parts of China and Southeast Asia. In Thailand, floods and mudslides have killed at least 84 people since late July. The weather did not dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of this food vender plying his trade on a flooded street in the town of Sena, in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand.u201d Photo by Sukree Sukplang/Reuters, u201cBig Picture,u201d Boston Globe
u201dIn Libya, the surreal rule of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi seems to be coming to a surreal end, if this photo of a stairway to heaven is any indication. The abandoned V.I.P. stairway is seen on a road leading to the airport in Surt, the tribal hometown of Col. Qaddafi.u201d Photo by Anis Milli/Reuters, u201cLens,u201d New York Times
u201dIn Phuket Island, Thailand, devotees to the Chinese shrine of Jui Tui shield themselves as fireworks explode around them. The scene took place during the annual Vegetarian Festival, traditionally held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar.u201d Photo by David Longstreath/EPA, u201cFramework,u201d Los Angeles Times
u201dMembers of the Preobrazhensky cadet school snack down after a ceremony marking the Moscow boarding school's 10 anniversary.u201d Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA, u201cLens,u201d New York Times
u201dSitting in my office on a rainy day in New York, I saw this picture and thought of the words from a favorite Bob Seger song: 'If I ever get out of here, I'm going to Kathmandu.' Photographer Navesh Chitrakar snapped this perfect rainbow as it appeared over the city's Bashantapur Durbar Square.u201d Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, u201cFramework,u201d Los Angeles Times
u201dMeanwhile, back to the financial crisis: Gyrating stock markets didn't stop European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and German Chancellor Angela Merkel from enjoying a jovial moment on September 28. Do images like this make us any more confident in our leaders? More inspiring was the $590 billion approved by the German parliament to help bail out its indebted European neighbors.u201d Photo by Michaela Rehle/Reuters-Landov, Newsweek
u201dDoes it matter that families eat together? Yes, according to the New York Times Magazine, which pointed out this week that children who regularly eat with their families have better vocabularies, do better in school, and are less likely to suffer from obesity. The trouble is that modern life and habits are making family meals rare occasions. Photographer Stephanie Sinclair was sent out to shoot portraits of families who still manage to eat together, at least some of the time. In this well constructed shot we see the Peay-Jenkins family of Easton, Pennsylvania.u201d Photo by Stephanie Sinclair, The New York Times Magazine
u201dFinnish photographer Sanna Kannisto has spent the past 14 years exploring how art and science portray nature. She lived at research stations in Brazil, Costa Rica, and French Guiana, developing field skills by assisting scientists. Now she has collected her photography in a new book titled Fieldwork (Aperture), which is excerpted in the September/October issue of Audubon magazine. Kannisto rigorously photographs flora and fauna as scientific specimens, shooting them against white backgrounds fringed by black curtains. At left: Oporornis formosus (Kentucky warbler); at right: Leptophis ahaetulla (Parrot Snake).u201d Photos by Sanna Kannisto, Audubon
u201dAfter the death of Ansel Adams in 1984, the U.S. Congress created the Ansel Adams Wilderness Area in California's Sierra Nevada mountainsu2014the location of many of the photographer's most revered images. The October issue of National Geographic pays tribute to the photographer and the wilderness that now bears his name with a portfolio of images by Peter Essick.u201d Photos by Peter Essick, National Geographic
u201dAfter being held in Iran's Evin Prison for more than two years, two Americans, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, were released last week and flown to Oman. There, photographer Jumana El-Heloueh caught the moment when Bauer (center) was greeted by family members and his fiancée, Sarah Shroud (right). Bauer, Fattal, and Shroud had been hiking in northern Iran when they were captured and charged with espionage. Shroud was released in 2010.u201d Photo by Jumana El-Heloueh/Reuters, Newsweek
This week brought scenes of social unrest provoked by the international financial crisis. In the United States, protestors occupied New York City’s financial district in what had been, until recently, a relatively peaceful movement. The city also saw a new kind of street demonstration—a so-called “slutwalk” to protest sexual violence. In Greece, demonstrators continue to protest economic austerity measures, while in Yemen the focus of protests was authoritarian rule. The season has also brought annual monsoons to many parts of the world; deadly flooding has plagued Pakistan and Asia in recent days. But photographers around the globe have also given us a fair share of beauty, tenderness, and humor, from a surreal staircase in Libya to a precious family dinner in Pennsylvania.
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