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Ai Weiwei

What better symbol of the Chinese Colossus’ feet of clay than the baseless accusations against a lone artist, except possibly the inconvenient fact that the arrested artist was a co-designer of the Bird Nest Stadium, the centerpiece of the Beijing Olympics?

Philip-Lorca Di Corcia

Images from the series Heads (click on thumbnail to enlarge) http://www.lslimited.com/cgi-local/portfolio.cgi?level_1=1
Producers: Joanna Milter, Kathy Ryan and Arem Duplessis/The New York Times Magazine.

Touch of Evil: Cinematic Villainy From the Year’s Best Performers - Interactive Feature

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/06/magazine/13villains.html?src=tp
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Edward Burtynsky: Oil (Eight Images

SOCAR Oil Fields #6, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006. © Edward Burtynsky /Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler , New York/ Nicholas Metivier Gallery , Toronto Edward Burtynsky: Oil consists of a series of large format color images made over the last 12 years.

Juan Manuel Castro Prieto

http://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=105 Stories Books Awards
Martin Parr is taking a picture of my breakfast. With an impish smile, he glides behind our chairs, leaning over our shoulders to neatly frame pale yellow eggs, fat sausages, grilled tomatoes, and racks of thin, evenly toasted slices of bread.

Learning the Martin Parr Way

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/2008/life_classes/learning_to_take_photographs_the_martin_parr_way.html