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SUMMARY: The MacArthur Foundation announced 23 'genius grant' award-winners for 2012, including a mandolinist, an astronomer and an economist. Judy Woodruff profiles An-My L?, a photographer, Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker, and David Finkel, a journalist, all of whom have created work about war.
JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): For more than three decades, the MacArthur Foundation has handed out the awards, along with millions of dollars, to an eclectic mix of thinkers, researchers, writers, and artists.
In all, 23 people were selected this year, ranging from a pediatric neurosurgeon to a novelist, an astronomer, and a Marine ecologist.
One striking theme that emerged among several of this year's winners in arts and writing was a focus on war and the military.
Here's some of what they had to say about their work in videos provided by the foundation.
An-My Le is a photographer and professor at Bard College in New York. Using a 19th century-style camera to capture her images, Le's work has primarily focused on the military and how the landscape has been transformed by war.
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