Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Iconic Wednesday: The Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan

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Thirty years ago today, a mentally unbalanced man named John Hinkley Jr. fired six shots from a Rohm RG-14 .22 caliber revolver, nearly kill...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Visual Culture Monday: The Quick and the Dead

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Here are a couple of things to look for this week in the world of images, starting with a bit of shameless self-promotion.   1. Speed and ...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

The Week in Photos: Devastation Above and Below the Surface

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You can catch my full weekly photo review at Le Lettre de la Photographie ; here, I'm focusing on images from Japan, where, in the week ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Extraordinary Photos: The "Fukushima Fifty"

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Today I expected to post about a number of things, including the photographic possibilites of the  Supermoon (was the sky clear where you w...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Iconic Monday: Herbert Ponting and the Doomed Scott Expedition

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Grotto in an Iceberg, Scott Expedition, by Herbert Ponting  Amid all the photography and art at last week's AIPAD show in New york, ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The Week that Was in Photos: Devastation

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Someone I know who has lived in Japan greeted me yesterday by saying, "And how are things in your little universe?" I understood e...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Iconic Monday: Meltdowns in Our Time

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Japan faced mounting humanitarian and nuclear emergencies Sunday as the death toll from Friday's earthquake and tsunami climbed astronom...