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People | CLOSE-UP May 2, 2004

Ryuichi Hirokawa: Picture this . .

by Eric Prideaux

With soldiers silhouetted against dramatic desert sunsets, or helicopters swooping over cityscapes, most mainstream-media photographs we see of the war in Iraq are nothing if not models of artistic composition and taste. For the most part, though, they are also devoid of the human ...

People | CLOSE-UP Apr 4, 2004

Robert Whiting: Outside the box

by Mark Schreiber

Back in 1972, a 30-year-old New Jersey native who had recently graduated from Tokyo's Sophia University was in New York City, trying to talk to anyone who would listen about politics and life in Japan. Nobody was interested. "It was only when I started talking ...