If your photos aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
CHINA. Hubei. Hankou. March, 1938. Young women being trained as Nationalist Chinese soldiers. After having lost Shanghai and Nankijng to the Japanese troops, CHANG KAI SHEK retreated to Hankou, where he resisted until late 1938.
FRANCE. Arras. March 23rd, 1945. An American Parachutist preparing to board the plane for the jump accross the Rhine River.
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A newspaper stand in Jerusalem.1950 SPAIN. Barcelona. August 1936. Bidding farewell before the departure of a military train directed to the Aragon front. ISRAEL. Galilee. 1948. Laundry day in a settlement of Kafar Giladi. ISRAEL. Haifa. 1949. Man and woman carrying their belongings in sacks. ISRAEL. Galilee. 1948. Refugees from Bulgaria. Community housework on the kibbutz of Kefar Giladi.
USA. Idaho. Sun Valley. October 1941. Gary COOPER. INDOCHINA. First Indo-Chinese War. Nam Dinh. A Vietnamese guard attached to the French Allied Command, at his post on a military base. May, 1954. icp 883 On the road from Namdinh to Thaibinh. May 25th, 1954. A French military convoy on its way north towards Doai Tan. In the foreground: a rice field. ITALY. Sicily, near Nicosia. July, 1943. German soldier captured by American forces. SPAIN. Les Masies. October 25th, 1938. Farewell ceremony for the International Brigades. USA. Hollywood. 1946. April/May 1946. Filming of “Notorious” Director: Alfred HITCHCOCK. Starring Ingrid BERGMAN, Cary GRANT, Claude RAINS and Louis CALHERN. Ingrid BERGMAN et Alfred HITCHCOCK. Hollywood May 1946 The Director Alfred HITCHCOCK supervising the close up frame of the cameraman directed on the hand of Ingrid Bergman (which was holding a hidden key to a wine cellar)) during the filming of NOTORIOUS. ICP 525. July, 1943. A member of the American Medical Corps treats a German prisoner of war. SPAIN. Barcelona. January 1939. Little girl resting during the evacuation of the city. USA. Idaho. Sun Valley. 1941. The American writer Ernest HEMINGWAY during a pheasant hunting party. USA. Idaho. 1940. American jounalist Martha GELLHORN with a rifle. FRANCE. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes. Vallauris. 1951. Spanish painter Pablo PICASSO. FRANCE. Ile-de-France. St Ouen near Paris. May-June 1936.Sit in strikers at the Lavalette Construction Company plant. USSR. Ukraine. Kiev. 1947. USSR. Moscow. 1947. Captured German tank on display. SPAIN. Gerda TARO with stone inscribed “PC”. 1936. FRANCE. Paris. 1936. German war photographer and reporter Gerda TARO.(From the Mexican Suitcase) USA. New York State. 1964. Robert KENNEDY on an airplane while campaigning for the U.S. Senate.