Article: Confrontation and enlightenment: Christopher Hitchens's two-front war. (Opinions).(Column)

The Salgado prints lie casually but conveniently close to me on Christopher Hitchens's large dining room table. When you pick one up, the first thing you notice is its heft. The paper is a thick, stiff rag that lets the Brazilian photographer's famous silver-black imagery dig in deep. The three prints are variations on the same moment: Hitchens standing in the middle of a group of Indian children who are waiting to be vaccinated. They were taken in Calcutta last October, when he was there for Vanity Fair to observe the polio eradication campaign by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. "I wasn't even aware that he had taken my picture at the time," he says.

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