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Extraordinary Photographs by Some of World's Top Photographers

Aired December 16, 2003 - 05:22   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Each year "Time" magazine brings us some extraordinary photographs by some of the world's top photographers.
"Time" photo editor Maryanne Golon walks us through some of them.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARYANNE GOLON, "TIME" MAGAZINE: This year when we sat down to look at best photos of the year, we knew we had to start with Iraq, because it's been our major story for the country since the beginning of the year. But the thing that we found so amazing about it was how intimate the photography was.

(voice-over): The closeness of the photographers was so compelling. And we had these images, you know, everything from the Skittles (ph) sandstorm picture by James Hill that was extraordinary to the little boy with his hands up, you know, who's frightened by the soldiers.

There's this beautiful image of these mourning women, Shia women from the south that Jim Nachtwey photographed. And you can't see anybody. There's just a hand and this beautiful blue sky behind them. But you can feel their pain.

Stephanie Sinclair did this amazing image and we didn't actually pick the U.N. bombing as much as her image really stood out. If you look at that it's sort of, you know, the lone guy, the big machine. It's got echoes of things we've seen before and we realized that there was all this really up close and personal coverage of this war, which allowed us then, in the second half of the package, to sort of pull back.

Michael Kamber took the image that's on the top of the page. It's an image of a, of someone brushing the dirt away from a child's face in a mass grave in Liberia. And Liberia was a huge story. I mean there was probably eight or 10 photographs working there. But it was incredibly dangerous. Liberia was tough. It's a rare breed of photographer because you had to be incredibly brave to be working in Monrovia at that time.

SARS was such a huge story. Everyone was wearing this mask. But there's something about seeing all those, you know, innocent little girls, you know, that even they're learning their steps in ballet.

We also covered a terrible, terrible drought there was in India and there's a very compelling image of people going for water in an area in India.

(on camera): It's really interesting when you can see that the photography continues to be unique and original of events that happen over and over again, like a storm.

(voice-over): I love the photograph by the "Baltimore Sun" photographer of the little child with the arms outspread facing the wind of the hurricane that, of course, devastated the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

The kiss page was to have fun, because this year there were all these kisses that got so much attention. You know, the one that, the image that's my personal favorite is the one of Jacques Chirac kissing the hand of Laura Bush. And her expression is just so sublime. And it's just a fabulous image, but it's really fun. You know, it's a sort of an interesting fun thing to look at how all these kisses made so much news this year.

Every year I'm continually amazed that photography just keeps getting better and photojournalism certainly seems to be revitalized given so much news.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Amazing pictures.

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Aired December 16, 2003 - 05:22   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Each year "Time" magazine brings us some extraordinary photographs by some of the world's top photographers.
"Time" photo editor Maryanne Golon walks us through some of them.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARYANNE GOLON, "TIME" MAGAZINE: This year when we sat down to look at best photos of the year, we knew we had to start with Iraq, because it's been our major story for the country since the beginning of the year. But the thing that we found so amazing about it was how intimate the photography was.

(voice-over): The closeness of the photographers was so compelling. And we had these images, you know, everything from the Skittles (ph) sandstorm picture by James Hill that was extraordinary to the little boy with his hands up, you know, who's frightened by the soldiers.

There's this beautiful image of these mourning women, Shia women from the south that Jim Nachtwey photographed. And you can't see anybody. There's just a hand and this beautiful blue sky behind them. But you can feel their pain.

Stephanie Sinclair did this amazing image and we didn't actually pick the U.N. bombing as much as her image really stood out. If you look at that it's sort of, you know, the lone guy, the big machine. It's got echoes of things we've seen before and we realized that there was all this really up close and personal coverage of this war, which allowed us then, in the second half of the package, to sort of pull back.

Michael Kamber took the image that's on the top of the page. It's an image of a, of someone brushing the dirt away from a child's face in a mass grave in Liberia. And Liberia was a huge story. I mean there was probably eight or 10 photographs working there. But it was incredibly dangerous. Liberia was tough. It's a rare breed of photographer because you had to be incredibly brave to be working in Monrovia at that time.

SARS was such a huge story. Everyone was wearing this mask. But there's something about seeing all those, you know, innocent little girls, you know, that even they're learning their steps in ballet.

We also covered a terrible, terrible drought there was in India and there's a very compelling image of people going for water in an area in India.

(on camera): It's really interesting when you can see that the photography continues to be unique and original of events that happen over and over again, like a storm.

(voice-over): I love the photograph by the "Baltimore Sun" photographer of the little child with the arms outspread facing the wind of the hurricane that, of course, devastated the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

The kiss page was to have fun, because this year there were all these kisses that got so much attention. You know, the one that, the image that's my personal favorite is the one of Jacques Chirac kissing the hand of Laura Bush. And her expression is just so sublime. And it's just a fabulous image, but it's really fun. You know, it's a sort of an interesting fun thing to look at how all these kisses made so much news this year.

Every year I'm continually amazed that photography just keeps getting better and photojournalism certainly seems to be revitalized given so much news.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Amazing pictures.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com




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