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Showcase: South Side Blues - Lens Blog. CHICAGO — The places had names like Perv’s House, Pepper’s Hide Out and the Five Fingers Social Club. Homes away from home where patrons dressed in their best, usually gold and mink, burning away the week’s problems in cigarette smoke, Crown Royal and the electric chords of guitars. For the photographer Michael Abramson, they were oases on Chicago’s rough-and-tumble South Side, where neon Schlitz signs beckoned from behind caged windows. One night in December 1974, Mr. Abramson, who was then 26 and had recently moved to the northern suburb of Evanston, ventured down to Pepper’s, a fieldstone exterior on a darkened block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, its hanging sign offering the night’s act and soul food.

“You would see a glowing light,” he said. “Something was happening there.” Mr. Michael Abramson And he just kept coming back — never without his camera. “It’s no problem getting into an unfamiliar environment,” Mr. “There’s not much going on in a barroom," Mr. Now 60 years old, Mr. Instead of a Home, a Motel Room. Cairo's Muslim Youth. Photos: Islam's Soft Revolution, Led by Cairo Women - Photo Essa.

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A Jewish settler prays at sunrise from a former outpost near Nablus. Fervent believers that there is a divine plan requiring them to hold this land, many of them armed and all of them furious over the 2005 withdrawal of Jews from Gaza and four West Bank settlements, they live by the slogan "Never forget! Never forgive! " The building of a Palestinian state would require them to move, and Israelis fear that any attempt to force them out could cause a bloody internal clash. Photo: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times related Article: Resolve of West Bank Settlers May Have Limits. Portraits of Chinese Workers - Photo Essays. Reportage by Gettyimages - features - Sugar Millionaires. Represented Photographers Reportage 2013 Roundup Slideshow Mexico's Citizen PolicePhotographs & Text by Katie Orlinsky Venezuela UnrestPhotographs by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala Shadows Of WarPhotographs by Tom Stoddart Living With LionsPhotographs & Text by Brent Stirton Life In War - AfghanistanPhotographs and Text by Majid Saeedi Inside IranPhotos by Reportage by Getty Images A Generation Lost - Grannies & AIDS OrphansPhotographs by Jonathan Torgovnik Goodbye My ChechnyaPhotographs by Diana Markosian Bought & SoldPhotographs & Text by Katie Orlinsky Sha'abi MusicPhotographs and Text by David Degner Show more Features.

West Wing Takes Its Work to the Air - The New York Times > U.S. The President’s Mailman - The New York Times > U.S. > Slide Show. Mike Kelleher, the director of the White House Office of Correspondence, looks through some of the letters that have arrived at the White House. On a recent day, boxes containing 300 to 500 pieces of mail each were stacked three-high in a corridor. Photo: Andrew Councill for The New York Times. Jon Lee Anderson on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Behind the Scenes with Mousavi - Photo Essays. Tiananmen at 20: Photographing 'Tank Man' - Photo Essays.

Guiding Women With a Gandhian Approach - The New York Times > As. Ela Bhatt, 76, who fought for higher wages for women in Gujarat, India, more than three decades ago, has since created India's first women's bank, the Self-Employed Women's Association, or SEWA. A Gandhian pragmatist for the New India, Mrs. Bhatt has built an empire of cooperatives run by women, all modeled after the Gandhian ideal of self-sufficiency but also advancing modern ambitions. Photo: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times related Article: An Empire for Poor Working Women, Guided by a Gandhian Approach. Bruce Has a Ball. Faces of Joy. Reportage by Gettyimages - features - The Women Of Standing Rock. Represented Photographers Reportage 2013 Roundup Slideshow Mexico's Citizen PolicePhotographs & Text by Katie Orlinsky Venezuela UnrestPhotographs by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala Shadows Of WarPhotographs by Tom Stoddart Living With LionsPhotographs & Text by Brent Stirton Life In War - AfghanistanPhotographs and Text by Majid Saeedi Inside IranPhotos by Reportage by Getty Images A Generation Lost - Grannies & AIDS OrphansPhotographs by Jonathan Torgovnik Goodbye My ChechnyaPhotographs by Diana Markosian Bought & SoldPhotographs & Text by Katie Orlinsky Sha'abi MusicPhotographs and Text by David Degner Show more Features.

Way in the Game - The New York Times > Magazine > Slide Show > S. Co.uk. For Students Learning English, a World Apart - The New York Time. Struggling in the Suburbs - The New York Times > U.S. > Slide Sh. One in 8 Million - New York Characters in Sound and Images - The. One in 8 Million - New York Characters in Sound and Images - The. One in 8 Million - New York Characters in Sound and Images - The. One in 8 Million - New York Characters in Sound and Images - The. One in 8 Million - New York Characters in Sound and Images - The. On Assignment: While Thousands Gather - Lens Blog.