Five years ago, Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom took a picture of a dog in Mexico near a taco stand, with a guest appearance by his girlfriend’s foot. This was the very first Instagram photo ever taken.
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Pablo Picasso playing in the water with his son Claude, Vallauris, France, 1948.
Robert Capa’s Unpublished Color Photographs Debut at the International Center of Photography this month. Preview the work on LightBox.
The world welcomed South Sudan’s birth in July 2011, but if thousands of peacekeepers and pressure from superpowers can’t influence a truce at the negotiating table in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it may end up lamenting its tragic collapse.
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Whether viewed as a public service or as propaganda, widely-disseminated handout images provide visual material the public would otherwise rarely see. Here are the instances that stood out the most in 2013.
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These powerful, and at times heartbreaking, photos from the front lines show why regional photographers make all the difference.
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From winter storms, to a train explosion in North Dakota and New Year’s Eve celebrations, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
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2013 was an amazing year for déjà vu: http://ti.me/19whh9V
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NASA releases a breathtaking new photo from the Hubble Telescope.
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When it comes to weather, 2013 will be remembered primarily for Supertyphoon Haiyan, the strongest storm ever recorded at landfall, which slammed into the Philippines in early November and killed at least 6,000 people. But the typhoon wasn’t the only incidence of extreme weather this year. From the tornado that tore apart the Oklahoma town of Moore in May to the floods that drowned parts of Colorado in September, 2013 saw more than its share of storms, heat waves and other natural disasters. 2013 may not be as bad as 2012, which was the hottest year in U.S. history and featured 11 weather events that causes losses exceeding $1 billion, including Superstorm Sandy. But as these photos show, the price of extreme weather is still high.
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