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WORLD PRESS PHOTO: 1994 supervising editor...

WORLD PRESS PHOTO: 1994 supervising editor Kari Lundelin (Thames & Hudson: $19.95; 132 pp., paperback original). The World Press Photo Foundation was established in 1955 to provide an international forum for news photographers. The winners of their annual contest offer a depressing look at the state of the world: violence in the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Russia and Afghanistan; floods and drug abuse in the United States; children suffering from diseases caused by the Chernobyl disaster. These dramatic photographs also prove that still images retain a special power that is very different from television news videos.

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