This Picture, "Big Duck, Route 24, Long Island, NY" by Naomi Harris, is part of the 50stateproject. Photographers from each state are given an assignment in an attempt to showcase their state. The assignment for this piece was Landscape.
This is a picture of Margaret Bourke-White meant to exemplify her life. Here she is sitting on an eagle hanging off of the Chrysler Building. Bourke-White was a fearless and groundbreaking photographer. She was the first female photographer on Time's staff, was the first woman photographer to enter the battlefields of World War II where she survived a helicopter crash and documented the liberation of Buchenwald. She was also the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union and the last to interview Gandhi, mere hours before he was assassinated.
This picture, by Oded Balilty, won the Associated Press the Pulitzer Price for Breaking News Photography in 2007. It is meant to document the removal of Jewish settlers by the Israeli army from an illegal settlement in the West Bank. No matter what your views on the issue are, this photograph shows that it is clearly an emotional issue.
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