"A Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, a victim of the war in Cyprus between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. 20 March 1964 Photograph: Don McCullin/World Press Photo A Vietnamese woman cries over the body of her dead husband, who was discovered with 47 others in a mass grave. Remnants of the corpse were wrapped in plastic. She identified her husband by examining his teeth, and covered the skull with her hat, 11 April 1969 Photograph: Horst Faas/World Press Photo"
"White life in Rhodesia: A school teacher walks home after her car broke down. On 3 March 1978, after 14 years of civil war, the Rhodesian prime minister, Ian Smith, and bishop Abel Muzorewa of the United African National Council signed the Internal Settlement. In 1965, Smith, prime minister of the British colony since 1964, had declared Rhodesia unilaterally independent under white minority rule."
Photographs capture moments across decades and continents, from a book signing by James Baldwin in Hamburg to scenes of war, mourning and political events. A Turkish woman mourns her husband killed in the Cyprus conflict; a Vietnamese woman identifies her husband among 48 bodies in a mass grave. A tall ship passes between the World Trade Center towers during America's 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. A schoolteacher in Rhodesia walks home after her car breaks down amid the 1978 Internal Settlement and earlier unilateral independence under Ian Smith. Images also show American public life including presidential children, an actor's take in 1984, and a 1985 hostage rescue.
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