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100 Days in Photographs

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Seventy-one-year-old Nelson Mandela, with wife Winnie, greets the world outside South Africa's Victor Verster prison on February 11, 1990, after nearly 26 years as a political prisoner. "Within 20 feet [6 meters] or so of the gate," Mandela later wrote, "the cameras started clicking, a noise that sounded like some great herd of metallic beasts." Learn more and buy the book: 100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed The World. Photograph by Alexander Joe