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Ut has since repeatedly dismissed allegations that he did not take the photo. A statement released on the Vietnamese American photographer’s behalf by his attorney, Jim Hornstein, called World Press Photo’s decision to suspend attribution “deplorable and unprofessional.” The statement added that Nghe’s claim is “unsupported by a scintilla of corroborating evidence or eyewitness.” Earlier … Read more

World Press Photo has cast fresh doubt over the authorship of “The Terror of War,” a picture better known as “Napalm Girl,” amid growing debate about one of the 20th century’s defining images. The organization, which named the image “Photo of the Year” in 1973, announced Friday that it has “suspended” its longstanding attribution to retired Associated … Read more

Rock art is dominated by four basic colors, he explained; red and yellow, often formed of a natural clay earth pigment known as ochre, black, created using charcoal, and white, sometimes applied by soft clay, like kaolin. Recreating the materials has been a decades-long process of trial and error. Bassett has found egg, blood, and animal … Read more

The stories behind the art The San are indigenous people in sub-Saharan Africa, with many hunter-gatherer groups existing to this day in Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and other countries in the region. Remnants of their paintings and engravings are still visible at thousands of locations across the continent, with as many as 7,000 across the … Read more

  In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg Mountains of the Western Cape. Then he stopped and gawked. Splashed across the rock face in red and yellow hues was a … Read more

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