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<p><span class="excerpt-inner">In 1904, Bayard Wootten, a divorced single mother in North Carolina, first borrowed a camera. She went on to make more than a million images.</span><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/single-mother-pioneering-photographer-the-remarkable-life-of-bayard-wootten/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p>
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<p><span class="excerpt-inner">Through images and interviews, Brian Cohen and his collective of photographers tell the stories of the immigrants of the city.</span><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/migration-stories-from-the-stoops-of-pittsburgh/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p>
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<article class="entry hentry post-152525 post type-post status-publish category-showcase category-uncategorized tag-alzheimers-disease tag-brooklyn-nyc tag-orr-cheney per-orr-cheney des-alzheimers-disease geo-brooklyn-nyc" id="post-152525">
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<p><span class="excerpt-inner">Cheney Orr knew that Alzheimer’s would take his father away. Photography helped him get to know the man.</span><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/a-father-a-son-a-disease-and-a-camera/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p>
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<article class="entry hentry post-152509 post type-post status-publish category-showcase category-uncategorized tag-crimea-ukraine tag-defense-and-military-forces tag-ottoman-empire tag-photography des-defense-and-military-forces des-ottoman-empire des-photography geo-crimea-ukraine news_keywords-photography" id="post-152509">
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<p><span class="excerpt-inner">Images by Roger Fenton, the originator of the war photography genre, from the Crimean War are featured in a new book. </span><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/roger-fenton-the-first-great-war-photographer/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p>
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<p><span class="excerpt-inner">Sebastian Hidalgo documents Pilsen, the old Chicago neighborhood where he grew up, hoping to capture the community before it is altered by rapid gentrification.</span><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/a-photographer-captures-his-community-in-a-changing-chicago-barrio/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p>
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<p><span class="excerpt-inner">The civil rights leader was stabbed, honored and given a student pastoral assignment. He also led one of his biggest marches, against the war.</span><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/what-martin-luther-king-jr-meant-to-new-york/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p>
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