A really intersting article about how the stock photography inudstry works... My friend Pammy is actually a creative researcher for Getty Images! Fascinating stuff...

Quoted: To learn more, I got in touch with the creative research department at Getty Images—a major player in the "visual content distribution" field. (Slate is one of Getty's many clients.) The job of the creative research team is to have photos and video waiting when demand for specific visual content crops up.

Today marks the 64th anniversary of the D-Day invasion - powerful slide show.

Quoted: On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces started to land along the Normandy coast in one of the bloodiest and most decisive military operations of World War II.

Happy 125th Birthday, Brooklyn Bridge! She's a beauty :)

Quoted: One of the most iconic and inspiring symbols of New York City and one of the greatest engineering feats of its generation, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic with much celebration and fanfare on May 24, 1883, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Honestly, I believe Dove on this one. And even if there was a bit of touching up here and there, it's advertising - I grant them that much room. The photos are still very true to what the campaign is trying to promote...

Quoted: After a New Yorker profile implied that "king of the photo touchup" Pascal Dangin had airbrushed photos taken by Annie Leibovitz for Dove's high-profile " Campaign for Real Beauty," the company issued a statement last Friday explaining that Dangin had only removed dust and performed minor color corrections.

A powerful slide show marking Israel's 60th anniversary as a state.

Quoted: This week marks the 60th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of statehood, preceded by years of immigration into Palestine leading to the U.N.-backed partition of the region into Palestinian and Jewish sectors.

Slate slide show on head scarves and turbans, marking the 39th anniversary of Sikh businessmen winning the right to wear turbans in the workplace.

Quoted: This week in 1969, Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign. Abbas and other Magnum photographers illustrate the rise in head-scarf wearing and the debate surrounding the right to wear a symbolic religious article of clothing.

There's a lot of great news analysis today assessing how far we've really come since MLK's assassination 40 years ago.

Quoted: Today marks 40 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. During his last speech, given the night before his death, he said what would turn out to be prophetic words: “I’ve been to the mountaintop. … I’ve seen the promised land.”

Wow, this week marks the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet. Some great pictures in this slide show...

Quoted: This week in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, fleeing the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet, crossed the border into India, where he was granted political asylum.

Grim scenes on a grim anniversary.

Quoted: Today marks five years since the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003. Magnum presents some scenes of events leading up to, during, and after the war “ended.”