Photojournalism of the Week: May 18, 2012

Our weekly round-up of the world’s most powerful, breathtaking and at times down-right dangerous photojournalism

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Behind the Notes: Marlies Plank's Woman in the Painting

A look at how and why a young Austrian photographer's image has become popular on Tumblr

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Taryn Simon, Tracing Bloodlines at MoMA

Working within a rigid, self-imposed documentary system, Simon finds the very human stories often hidden in the margins

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Life Off the Grid

Lucas Foglia's book Natural Order looks at Americans who have chosen to live off the land

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Photojournalism of the Week: May 4, 2012

The week's most compelling and visually-arresting news images

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Girls and Boys With Their Color-Coded Things

JeongMee Yoon's "The Pink & Blue Project" looks at the association of color with gender

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When A Picture's Worth About 15 Words

Two web-based projects are playing with the idea of "translating" between images and words

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On the Wall: Nick Veasey's "From Rocks and Reefs..."

An exhibition in California recalls the cyanotype process and one of its first pioneers

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Behind the Notes: Nicolas Poillot's "Mister Lonely"

A photograph taken in a Belgian wasteland goes viraleven though it was uploaded by accident

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One Woman's Entire Facebook Network, Photographed

Tanja Alexia Hollander explores the nature of 21st-century friendship in her ambitious project Are You Really My Friend?

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Corey Arnold's Photographs Find a Natural Home Outdoors in Belgium

Large-scale reproductions of last year's "Fish-Work" have been mounted in a Belgian city as part of a photography festival 

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A Warm Look at Taiwan

New York-based photographer I-Hsuen Chen finds quiet moments of beauty in his series "Nowhere in Taiwan"

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On the Wall: Painters Picking Up Cameras

Chuck Close, Frida Kahlo and Lyonel Feininger—all most famous for paintings—have photographic works on display this month

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Turning Turtles Into Cameras With Onorato & Krebs

Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have created some of the strangest cameras you may ever see. It's all part of their irreverent take on photography's conventions in As Long As It Photographs, It Must Be a Camera

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On the Wall: Naked Before the Camera

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art chronicles the history of the photographic nude

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