The Week’s Business News In Photos

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The Week’s Business News in Photos

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Aerial photos of industrial eco-messes

Above is an aerial view of heavy metal waste caused by fertilizer production. The photograph, titled "Crucible," is the work of artist J. Henry Fair. He flies in small planes over oil refineries, paper mills, and factories to take shots of environmental decay and toxic industrial sites. Fair's solo exhibition, titled Abstraction of Destruction," opens January 13 at New York's Gerald Peters Gallery. His new photo book The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis is published next month. From Smithsonian:

Fair, who lives in New York State, consults scientists to better understand the images in his viewfinder: vast cranberry red ponds of hazardous bauxite waste spewed by aluminum smelters; kelly green pits filled with byproducts, some radioactive, from the manufacture of fertilizer. But pollution never looked so good. “To make an image that stops people it has to be something that tickles that beauty perception and makes people appreciate the aesthetics,” says Fair, who specialized in portraiture before taking to the skies.

His goal is not to indict—he doesn’t identify the polluters by name—but to raise public awareness about the costs of our choices.

J Henry Fair: "Abstraction of Destruction" (Gerald Peters Gallery)

Aerial photos of industrial eco-messes

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Candid photos of Civil War battlefield injuries

On April 1, 1865, Alfred Lane was shot in the hip during the Civil War Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia. He died about a month and a half later, after the wound became gangrenous.

Candid photos of Civil War battlefield injuries

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Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Earthquake

1. Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Earthquake

January 14

By far our most popular gallery this year, in fact our most popular story of any sort, was a collection of satellite images of Haiti taken before and after the earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince on January 12. These photos were released the following day by Google and the satellite imaging company GeoEye.

Seeing the devastation from above gave us a new view of the severity of this disaster, a new appreciation for what the country was dealing with, and the daunting task that lay ahead for rescuers and relief workers.

See the full gallery.

Image: Google/Geoeye

Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Earthquake

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Photos of Tokyo commuters pressed against steamy subway windows

Photographer Michael Wolf's "Tokyo Compression" photo series captures Tokyo commuters pressed up against the glass of crowded trains, many of them asleep against the foggy glass.

Photos of Tokyo commuters pressed against steamy subway windows

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UNC team builds 3D model of Rome using Flickr photos on a single PC in one day

A UNC team has written an engine that scours Flickr for photos of a city, figures out which ones are images of the same place, analyzes them, and uses the results to build amazingly detailed 3D models -- all in less than a day, using a single PC.

UNC team builds 3D model of Rome using Flickr photos on a single PC in one day

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Photos of good-looking pencils

Pencil logos of yore were very attractive. Bob Truby has nice photos from his impressive collection.

Photos of good-looking pencils

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