More than a century ago, Frank Bennett Fiske had a photography studio at Fort Yates, a US Army post in the middle of a North Dakota Indian reservation. He made his money photographing cavalry ...

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The highly contested race gave us iconic images, such as Natalie Keyssar’s security guard at the Democratic convention (slide 41) or Evan Vucci’s shot of Trump standing on a chair to address a ...