I enjoy the NYT mostly for the writers and editors whose articles are simply extraordinary (in my opinion, some of the best journalists in the country). Recently, I’ve been paying more attention to the photography that accompanies articles. Photos in the NYT have a consistent purity to them, a vivid and often provocative documentation of the people featured in articles. In the August 18th issue of the NYT magazine, the photos that colored the pages of Robin Marantz Henig’s piece about today’s young adults in their 20s and the divergent paths they take after college graduation struck me as particularly unique. Each photo presented one or a couple of these young adults in a particular setting, doing a certain activity or with a distinctive look, giving the reader a hint of who they are or where they’re from. I enjoyed the ambiguity of each photo because it forced me to analyze the image further. I will continue to be amazed by NYT photographs for their clarity, ambiguity, emotion, modernity and unconventionality. I hope you enjoy these works of art as much as I do. I found that I could relate a lot to the article because we, as students, are a part  or soon to be a part of today’s 20-something crowd.

Check it out at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?scp=1&sq=20-somethings&st=cse