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Photograph: Tequendama Falls, n.d.
A 20th-century photograph of Salo de Tequendema in Colombia, taken by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez.
A 20th-century photograph of Salo de Tequendema in Colombia, taken by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez.
In addition to depicting a phase of the channelization works of the San Francisco River, this image shows Bogotá’s urban landscape, with the Eastern Mountains in the background and trees such as eucalyptus, pines and cypress along the river.
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.
This 1988 photograph by Richard Misrach portrays the influential activist group Princesses Against Plutonium.