European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Left a curious youngster turns to smile at the photographer As she rides a Donkey with her father in Cairo Egypt. Below women Pray at the wailing Wall in Jerusalem As a cat Waits under a chair. The stars and stripes photo staff spent 1988 covering tragedy and Triumph sorrow and jubilation destruction and Beauty horror and fortunately photographers Are journalists who work in a visual medium documenting the order confusion and incongruities of the human condition. We try to be the eyes of the Reader. Famed photographer Edward Steichen described the Art of photography As a dynamic process of giving form to ideas and of explaining Man to Man. It was conceived As a Mirror of the Universal elements and emotions in the everyday Ness of life As a Mirror of the essential oneness of Mankind throughout the i can t imagine a better definition of photojournalism. The images on pages 4 through 13 Are a selection of stripes photographers favorite or most poignant photos from 1988. Hopefully some of them will live up to Steichen s definition and will touch your heart. L Emmett Lewis or. Staff photographer
