This was a milieu Scorcese understood brilliantly and he used extreme violence, where necessary, to depict it.

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But Byron Brauchli has turned the idea of elegance on its head, and used this fine form (albeit with palladium, a close platinum substitute) to depict illegal logging in Mexico in 1993, with billowing smoke and trees shown in sharp relief.

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Despite more than 3, 000 media visits, newspaper and television reports worldwide consistently used dated Camp X-Ray orange-jumpsuit photos throughout the decade as their stock footage to depict Guantanamo, though detainees were quickly moved to modern prisons modeled after facilities in Indiana and Michigan.

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