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The television drama "M*A*S*H" ran to hundreds of episodes and finished off with the most watched finale in American TV history. Now, an "interactive essay" from the Magnum Photo Agency uses images from the series to frame a slideshow of two military medical units operating in Iraq today. Grainy, black-and-white shots of Klinger, Hawkeye, and Radar contrast with color photographs of U.S. soldiers picking through rubble, blue-smocked military doctors bending over examination tables, Iraqi men on their knees, and uniformed men and women looking dead exhausted. Like the show, some sections reveal the unexpected aspects of life outside the military ER: men digging in to a bag of Doritos, smoking a cigar, laughing. But then the music shifts, the image clouds, and we're back in the Humvees, on conflict-torn streets, and in an all-too real war.

If you want to know the real living history of a place, sit down for a cup of coffee and a smoke with a local photojournalist. That's the lesson we learned digging into Al Kaplan's blog, The Price of Silver. The title refers to silver used in film, but it could well hint at Kaplan's treasure trove of Miami tales. Kaplan worked as a photojournalist for Miami papers for 50 years, and both the visual and verbal lore he shares with readers is worth its weight in precious metals. If Miami, particularly in the '60s and '70s, holds your interest at all (or ultra wide-angle self-portraits, for that matter) Al Kaplan has plenty to share with you and his many other fans.

Twenty years ago today, the world's worst nuclear disaster blew the roof off the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. For many people, the event seems far off, and much has changed in the decades since. But for those who live in Chernobyl and other former Soviet towns, afflictions from nuclear accidents and experiments remain an intimate part of their lives. Since 1999, photographer Robert Knoth and reporter Antoinette De Jong have traveled through the Ukraine, Urals, Kazakhstan, and Siberia to capture, in searing black-and-white portraits, the way that nuclear radiation has forever altered the humans who face it. Among those photographed are a six-year-old child frozen in a three-year-old's body, a 14-year-old boy with sarcoma of the prostate gland, two sisters with brain tumors, and vast sweeping skies that seem to belie the contamination below.