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Philadelphia's Homeless

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Philadelphia's Homeless
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1986 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, Tom Gralish, The Philadelphia Enquirer

“I like any kind of food. Whatever’s there, I buy it. Hot dog one day, the next Chinese food, roast beef sandwich.” — Walter, Philadelphia, homeless

In the winter of 1985, Philadelphia Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish steps out or his life and into the lives of the city’s street people. "I didn't know much about these guys. So I decided to show what their day is like. I wanted it to be straightforward 'doc photography.’ Go out and sec what you can find."

Gralish walks the streets with his camera. "I hooked up with one little group. It was like a community — enough vendors to be nice to them, enough steam grates, a liquor store nearby, a hospital, lots of commuters to panhandle — everything they needed."

Some men live on fire escapes; others in alleys. Walter lives on a sidewalk heating grate. "Walter is one of the guys who is hard to reach because he talks to himself and rants to people on the street. Everyone knows him; people who live and work in the neighborhood give him change. He was one of those guys who was hot and cold to me."

Eventually, Walter allows Gralish to photograph him- "People like it when you pay attention to them. These guys had disdain for society and the rules: that's why they objected to the shelters. They saw themselves as the last free men."



Robbo at Pure Evil Gallery
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Famous Banksy-basher and graffiti artist Robbo opened his “New Paintings” exhibition at Pure Evil Gallery yesterday, showing a lot of colorful paintings, proclaiming street art is dead. For sure, I took some photos... For more info, visit www.urbanartcore.eu/rip-street-art-robbo-exhibition/

Urban Mixer Gallery Series II

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Urban Mixer Gallery Series II
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Urban Mixer Gallery Series II at TRUNK gallery in Vancouver - photo credit Dan Stone Photography - read more at www.urbanmixer.com


Urban Mixer Gallery Series II
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Urban Mixer Gallery Series II at TRUNK gallery in Vancouver - photo credit Dan Stone Photography - read more at www.urbanmixer.com

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BFR Series: 1 of 20
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I often take for granted the ease the working relationship is between Alexandra Rodionova and I. These pictures are a direct result of that comradery. If you where an onlooker on a shoot with Alex and I you would wonder why we hardly talk when we're right in the middle of taking pictures. Well, we don't need to communicate, "stand this way, look that way, etc". We know each others every move. Thus is the benefit of working with a muse.
Alas, these days must come to an end. After 5 years of working together Alex is going her own way. So all I have now are there archived photo shoots to share. I'm sure once in awhile we'll team up again...
...in the mean time I guess I'm in the market for a new muse!
You can contact me at muse@chaosacademy.net.
Please include head shots and full body shots. hehe
Photo by Jef Harris.


Art Gallery of Ontario
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The stairs go up to a small mezzanine overlooking a gallery (see preceding photo) in the Art Gallery of Ontario.


702T6526
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Maine Coon - Chimsky - Creative Commons by gnuckx

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The Maine Coon is a breed of domestic cat well known for its distinctive physical appearance. It is one of the oldest natural breeds in North America, specifically native to the state of Maine, where it is the official State Cat.

Although the Maine Coon’s exact origins and date of introduction to the United States are unknown, many theories have been proposed. The breed was popular in cat shows in the late 1800s, but its existence became threatened when long-haired breeds from overseas were introduced in the early 20th century. The Maine Coon has since made a comeback and is now the second most popular cat breed in North America, according to the Cat Fanciers’ Association (CFA).

The Maine Coon is generally noted for its large bone structure, its rectangular body shape, and a long, flowing coat. The breed can be seen in a variety of colors and are known for their intelligence and gentle personalities. Health problems, such as feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and hip dysplasia, are seen in the breed, but testing is available to detect the genes responsible for causing these abnormalities

Origin

The ancestral origins of the Maine Coon are unknown. There are only theories and folktales. One such folktale involves Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, who was executed in 1793. Before her death, Antoinette attempted to escape France with the help of Captain Samuel Clough. She loaded Clough’s ship with her most prized possessions, including six of her favorite long-haired cats. Although Antoinette did not make it to the United States, her pets safely reached the shores of Wiscasset, Maine, where they mated with short-haired breeds and evolved into the modern breed of the Maine Coon.
The face of a Maine Coon

Another folktale involves Captain Charles Coon, an English seafarer who kept long-haired cats aboard his ships. Whenever Coon’s ship would anchor in the New England ports, the felines would exit the ship and mate with the local feral cat population. When long-haired kittens began appearing in the litters of the local cat population, they were referred to as one of “Coon’s cats”.

A theory which is biologically-based, though genetically impossible, is the idea that the modern Maine Coon descended from ancestors of semi-feral domestic cats and raccoons. This could have possibly explained the most common color of the breed (brown tabby) and the bushy tail, which is a characteristic trait. Another idea is that the Maine Coon originated between the matings of domestic cats and wild bobcats, which could explain the tufts of hairs that are so commonly seen on the tips of the ears. There have been reports of domestic cats breeding with bobcats.

The generally-accepted theory among breeders is that the Maine Coon is descended from the pairings of local short-haired domestic cats and long-haired breeds brought overseas by English seafarers (possibly by Captain Charles Coon) or 11th-century Vikings. The connection to the Vikings is seen in the strong resemblance of the Maine Coon to the Norwegian Forest Cat, another breed that is said to be a descendant of cats that traveled with the Vikings.

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Mi Maine Coon

Es la primera raza que se desarrolló en Estados Unidos. El nombre proviene de la creencia de los colonizadores de que era el resultado del cruce de un mapache y un gato, cosa imposible.

Su pelaje es tupido, lanoso, resistente a los rigores climáticos, con la piel cubierta por un lustroso pelaje exterior más abundante, con el que soporta el invierno. Generalmente se cuida solo.

Esta raza posee una disposición afable y se lo reconoce en una amplia gama de colores y patrones. El color de los ojos no tiene que hacer juego con el pelaje. También se caracteriza por ser de gran longitud. Se cree que era una mezcla de los gatos de la realeza francesa.

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Il mio Maine Coon

Il Maine Coon è una delle più antiche razze naturali del Nord America, tanto da essere considerato generalmente come nativo dello stato del Maine, di cui è il gatto ufficiale. Il suo nome deriva da Maine, lo stato della Nuova Inghilterra in cui veniva avvistato, e da Raccoon, orsetto lavatore in inglese, per via della sua coda molto simile a quella di un procione. Molteplici sono le leggende che circondano l’origine di questo particolare gatto. La più diffusa all’inizio del secolo narrava che per le grandi e pelose orecchie provviste di ciuffi e la coda grossa e inanellata, il Maine Coon fosse il risultato di un incrocio tra una lince e un orsetto lavatore. L’ipotesi, ovviamente assurda, ha comunque contribuito ad alimentare le numerose storie che si tramandano su questa razza. C’è anche chi a tutti i costi ha voluto conferire un’aura regale a questo gatto “rustico”, facendolo addirittura discendere da sei gatti d’Angora che la regina Maria Antonietta, durante la Rivoluzione Francese, avrebbe messo in salvo inviandoli a Wiscasset, nello Stato Americano del Maine. Le origini del Maine Coon hanno creato così tantissime leggende e congetture, nessuna delle quali può essere provata. La teoria più probabile, anche se la meno pittoresca, indicherebbe il Maine Coon come il risultato di un incrocio tra gatti selvatici a pelo corto del continente nordamericano e gatti a pelo lungo d’oltremare. Secondo alcuni infatti, il Maine Coon avrebbe antenati tra i gatti nordici, i progenitori del Norvegese delle Foreste, arrivati in America del Nord nell’anno mille in seguito agli sbarchi dei Vichinghi sulle Isole di Terranova. Secondo altri invece, l’origine del Maine Coon risalirebbe al periodo della colonizzazione quando le navi dei coloni provenienti da tutto il mondo attraccavano sulle coste americane del Nord-est portando al seguito dei gatti per far strage di topi. Erano gatti d’ogni risma, che i marinai dell’epoca apprezzavano più o meno a seconda della loro maggiore o minore capacità di cacciare topi piuttosto che per la loro maggiore o minore bellezza. È però assai probabile che, fra quei “gatti”, tutti uguali e tutti diversi, ci fosse anche qualche antenato degli attuali gatti d’America. La prima segnalazione ufficiale di un Maine Coon, risale al 1861 con una menzione da parte della signora Pierce di un gatto bianco e nero chiamato “Captain Jenks of the Horse Marines”. In Italia il Maine Coon compare solo nel 1986 su un mensile del settore, da allora la diffusione della razza è in continua espansione e i Maine Coon sono ormai protagonisti di successo nelle esposizioni feline.

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Mi Maine Coon

Deuxième race féline des États-Unis, et dont la popularité ne cesse de croître à travers le monde, le maine coon est un chat robuste et rustique, façonné par le dur climat de l’État du Maine, sur la côte est des États-Unis. Il est probablement l’une des plus anciennes races naturelles nord-américaine,.

Plusieurs légendes décrivent les origines de la race. La plus répandue raconte que le maine coon est le fruit d’un croisement entre des chats et des ratons laveurs (raccoon en anglais), ce qui expliquerait leur couleur (la plus répandue est le brown tabby) et leur queue très touffue. Bien sûr, il est génétiquement impossible de réaliser un tel croisement mais la race gardera de cette légende son nom. La deuxième avance que ce sont des descendants des six chats angoras envoyés par Marie-Antoinette d’Autriche alors qu’elle préparait une fuite pour échapper à la révolution française. Ces angoras auraient été amenés sur le bateau le Sally du capitaine Samuel Clough de Wiscasset avec les autres effets personnels de la reine. Les angoras se seraient ensuite mêlés aux chats de ferme locaux pour donner naissance au maine coon.

Une autre théorie, un peu moins extravagante celle-ci, avance que la race s’est développée à partir de croisements entre des chats de ferme locaux et d’autres chats à poils longs ou mi-longs importés d’abord par les Vikings aux alentours de l’an 1000. Le maine Coon descendrait alors du chat des forêts norvégiennes, ce qui expliquerait leur ressemblance. Cette hypothèse est appuyée par la ressemblance entre turc de van, sibériens, norvégiens et enfin maine coons dont les origines géographiques correspondent aux déplacements des vikings. Cette ressemblance avec le norvégien peut aussi s’expliquer par le fait que le climat hivernal de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et de la Norvège sont identiques et auraient donc conduits à développer les mêmes spécificités.
Cosey, la première maine coon vainqueur en 1885 à New York

C’est en tout cas ce qu’affirmait Mme Pierce, une des premières propriétaires de maine coon qui avait à l’époque effectué des recherches approfondies sur les origines de la race. Elle avait effectivement trouvé que ces chats étaient arrivés sur les côtes du Maine par la mer, mais pas grâce aux Vikings. Ce serait plutôt par les riches familles du Maine qui possédaient alors de luxueux bateaux et voyageaient beaucoup. Ils auraient ramenés de leurs expéditions de nombreux animaux de compagnie exotiques, notamment pour amuser les enfants. La deuxième hypothèse de Mme Pierce était que des chats angoras furent embarqués à bord des bateaux marchands pour chasser les rats. Dans les deux cas, ils auraient débarqués sur la Côte Est et se seraient mélangés aux chats locaux à poils courts et le brassage aurait donnés le chat à poils mi-long que nous connaissons.

Une autre possibilité est qu’ils aient été importés par les immigrants européens et aient su s’adapter aux conditions de vie et au climat difficile de la région.

En 1860, les fermiers du Maine, très fiers de leurs chats organisaient leurs propres expositions pour élire le champion. Le premier maine coon cité dans la littérature est un mâle noir et blanc nommé Captain Jencks qui appartenait à Mme Pierce. Cela remonte à 1861. Un peu plus tard, en 1895, ce chat de grande taille fit sensation au Madison Square Garden. C’est d’ailleurs une femelle maine coon nommée Cosey qui remporta le concours. En 1897, c’était une douzaine de maine coons qui participaient à une exposition à Boston. Au début du XXe siècle, la popularité de la race dépasse la Côte Est et atteint la Côte Ouest des États-Unis. Puis peu à peu, elle tombe dans l’oubli puisque jusqu’en 1950 la mode est aux persans et aux siamois, laissant de côté le géant américain. A la fin des années 40, on le déclare même un peu vite disparu. Pour que le maine coon retrouve sa popularité, deux éleveurs fondent le Central maine coon cat club en 1953. Trois ans plus tard, ce club écrit également le premier standard de la race. Les efforts paient puisqu’en 1960, la race a retrouvé sa popularité d’antan.
Jeune maine coon brun mackerel tabby et blanc

La race est officiellement reconnue depuis 1967 par l’American Cat Fanciers Association et la Canadian cat association. La CFA tarde à reconnaître la race qu’elle refuse à plusieurs reprises entre 1969 et 1972. Il aura fallut attendre 1973 pour que la fédération reconnaisse la race de façon provisoire et 1976 pour une reconnaissance définitive. Entre temps, en 1972, les différents standards existants sont harmonisés au niveau national.

L’importation du maine coon en France date de 1981 mais la race ne prend son essor qu’au début des années 90 et c’est également à cette époque que l’Allemagne la découvre. La FIFé reconnaît la race en 1983 et le GCCF anglais en 1986.

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Austria-00183 - Small Gallery
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The Small Gallery, which was built at the same time as the Great Gallery, was used for smaller family celebrations during the reign of Maria Theresa.

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - The Round Room

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Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - The Round Room
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Now that I know that you can take photos inside the Birmingham Musuem & Art Gallery, thought I'd go along and take what I wanted (not the paintings).

This is in the part of the museum near Great Charles Street Queensway.

On Friday it opened at 10:30am and I got here just in time before the crowds showed up.

I mainly wanted to take the busts I previously saw in the art galleries.

Over the bridge (leaving the art galleries and Feeney Galleries behind me).

The round room of BM & AG.

Jabob Epstein's Lucifer ahead.

The impressive Round Room, with plain walls for hanging pictures and a low conical glass roof above a strapwork band of circles and hexagons.

From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster

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Art Gallery of Ontario
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Frank Gehry designed this amazing staircase as part of the expansion project for the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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YSExhibition at ****contrasted gallery: a hard selection of some YSEfots
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A hard selection of some photos published at Y SIN EMBARGO magazine in a unique event. Curated by fernandoprats for the benefit of ****contrasted gallery.

10th-17th June, 2011.

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Death Leap From Blazing Hotel
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1947 Pulitzer Prize, Photography, Arnold Hardy, Associated Press

With only five flashbulbs, 26 year old Georgia Tech student Arnold Hardy used his last one to capture this photo of a woman leaping from the Winecoff Hotel fire. Hardy was the first amateur to win a Pulitzer prize.

Its Friday night. Arnold Hardy, like most of his fellow college students, is out having a good time. He arrives home in the early hours of the morning to hear fire trucks racing through the streets. An amateur photographer. Hardy grabs his camera, jumps into a taxi and hurries to the blaze. "I came upon it all at once. Fire was raging from the upper floors. From almost every window, men. women and children screamed tor help."

The Winecoff Hotel has no fire escapes, no fire doors, no fire stairs. The hotel is 15 stories high; the ladders ot the Atlanta Fire Department do not reach above the ninth floor. The blaze spreads rapidly. Guests on the upper floors have no way out. "The trapped victims," remembers Hardy, "were descending ropes of blankets and bed sheets in desperate attempts to reach the fully extended ladders." The sheets tear; people plunge to the pavement. Other guests try jumping
to the building next door; most fall to the street below.

As Hardy watches, he hears a woman shriek. "I looked up, raising my camera. A woman was plummeting downward. As she passed the third floor, I fired, using my last flashbulb."

The woman is lucky: Her fall is broken by a pipe and a railing. She lives.

In all, 119 people lose their lives in the December 7 Winecoff fire — including owner W. F. Winecoff, found dead, along with his wife, in his luxury suite on the 14th floor.

Angel

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Angel
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Arachnia (Vampirella)
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Nowhere night
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Crisis in Haiti
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1995 Pulitzer Prize, Spot News Photography, Carol Guzy, Washington Post

"Some say I became obsessed, but I’d rather call it a mission." Carol Guzy has covered Haiti since the early 1980s, returning on her own when she cannot convince an editor to send her. "I felt like I had to make people see what was going on there." says Guzy. "The country is so small no one in the U.S. is aware of it."

On Dec. 16, 1990, Jean-Bertrand Aristide wins Haiti's first free presidential elections. Less than a year later, he is deposed and sent into exile. The United States imposes a trade embargo; thousands of Haitians flee. "I had gotten to the point that even I had lost all hope," says Guzy. "I thought nothing would get better. The military government was entrenched." In September 1994, U.S. troops land in Haiti to help return Aristide to power. "There were still a lot of problems," says Guzy. "But for the first time in a long time I saw hope and even jubilation in people's eyes."

In Port-au-Prince, Guzy photographs a "very- joyous democracy march." Then someone throws a grenade into the crowd. "People were killed and wounded. There was shooting, nobody could figure out where it was coming from. I hit the ground with everybody else. I turned and saw the (U.S.) soldier. The guy- on the ground with his arm raised up, the crowd thought he had thrown the grenade and they were trying to tear him apart. The U.S. troops were trying to protect him."

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Elián
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2001 Pulitzer Prize, Spot News Photography, Alan Diaz, Associated Press

It's dawn in Miami's Little Havana. Photographers and reporters doze on lawn chairs. Demonstrators mill about after in all-night vigil. Inside the house, a family lawyer negotiates by phone with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. On the sofa sleeps 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez.

Associated Press photographer Alan Diaz stands at the backyard fence. For five months from this spot. Diaz has covered the international custody war between the child's cousins in Miami and father in Cuba. Diaz has lived in Cuba and speaks Spanish. The relatives let him take pictures. But he must stay outside the fence. And he must never, ever speak to Elian.

At 5 a.m. on April 22. 2000, rumors swirl: a temporary accord may allow a visit with the boys lather. The rumors prove untrue. All at once Diaz hears heavy boots stampede the backyard. He grabs his camera, jumps the fence. A family friend lets him in the front door and locks it. Federal agents smash through the house. Diaz sees the relatives scream, mouths moving but bodies frozen.

"Where's the boy?" Diaz shouts. Someone shoves him into the bedroom. Donato Dalrymple, who plucked Elian from the sea, is trying to hide the boy. "What's happening?" Elian asks. "What's happening?" For the first time, Diaz speaks to Elian, tries to calm him down. Then agents kick open the door. One points a 9 mm submachine gun. Diaz takes the picture: a terrified child being seized by the federal government. The lightning move by federal agents takes just 154 seconds.

Even today, long after the court rulings have sent Elian back to Cuba with his father, one thing remains a mystery to photographer Diaz. He can’t figure out how he jumped the fence. "It may have been my pulsing adrenaline." he says. "But then again, I guess it was part of what I always do—I shoot pictures."

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1976 Pulitzer Prize, Spot News Photography, Stanley J. Forman, Boston Herald American

It's quitting time on a brutally hot day in July when Boston Herald American photographer Stanley Forman hears a report of a fire in Boston’s Back Bay. He follows screaming fire trucks to a six-story apartment house in flames.

Forman remembers "a roaring, roaring inferno... heavy smoke. Heavy fire. It was like a firestorm."

Forman runs to the back of the building. "Then I spotted them. A woman, a child and they re standing there on the fire escape, 10 feet from the fire itself. And they're looking for help." As Forman watches, a firefighter climbs down from the roof. He pulls them away from the flames, shielding them with his heavy rubber coat. Seeking a better vantage point, Forman climbs onto a ladder truck.

"Everything was fine," says Forman. "I was just shooting a routine rescue. Switching lenses, switching cameras." A ladder rises slowly toward the fire escape. The firefighter reaches out to grab the ladder....

"All of a sudden, boom! It just crashes." As Forman watches, the fire escape rips away from the building. The woman is falling, the child is falling, metal is flying...

"Everything is falling and I'm thinking. Just keep shooting.' And I'm shooting and shooting. Then a bell went off in my head. I didn’t want to see them hit." Forman turns away. When he turns back, he discovers the 19-year-old woman is dead. Her 3-year-old niece miraculous survives.


ORANGE BEAUTY
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The Kiss of Life
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1968 Pulitzer Prize, Spot News Photography, Rocco Morabito, Jacksonville Journal

July 17, 1967: Air conditioners hum all over Horida. In Jacksonville, they overwhelm the electrical system and knock out the power. Jacksonville Journal photographer Rocco Morabito is on his way to photograph a railroad strike when he notices Jacksonville Electric Authority linemen high up on the poles. "I passed these men working and went on to my assignment," says Morabito. "I took eight pictures at the strike. I thought I'd go back and see if I could rind another picture."

But when Morabito gets back to the linemen, "I heard screaming. I looked up and I saw this man hanging down. Oh my God. I didn't know what to do." The linemen. Randall Champion, is dangling upside down in his safety belt — felled bv 4,160 volts of electricity.

"I took a picture right quick." says Morabito. "J.D. Thompson (another lineman) was running toward the pole. I went to my car and called an ambulance. I got back to the pole and J.D. was breathing into Champion." Cradling the stricken lineman in his arms, Thompson rhythmically pushes air into Champion's lungs. Below. Morabito makes pictures — and prays.

"I backed off. way off until I hit a house and I couldn't go any farther. I took another picture, it is a prize-winning photograph, but Morahito's real concern is the injured lineman. Thompson finally shouts down: "He's breathing." Champion survives.

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