Scene on the Road

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Vanity Fair magazine’s editors have been making 25 best of lists. Adding to their lists of everything "from book covers and documentaries to parties and political one-liners," they just posted a slide show of their top 25 news photographs, including former Inquirer staffer John Paul Filo's Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Mary Ann Vecchio crying over the body of Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings.

There are many of the usual suspects; the Hindenburg exploding, Joe Rosenthal's flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima and Malcolm Browne's, Eddie Adams' and Nick Ut's iconic images from Vietnam. But a lot of them are full frame, so they look a little different than the cropped versions we're more familiar with. Maybe to make it more VF-arsty? Like Harry Truman holding up an early edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune with the erroneous headline. This is W. Eugene Smith's version of the scene on the back of his railcar in the St. Louis Union Station as Truman took a victorious train ride back to Washington, DC the morning after his 1948 re-election.

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