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Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life / VIDEO

Excerpts from the film, Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life. The film was produced and directed by Meg Partridge (1994) and is an engaging and penetrating look at a life devoted to photography, profiling the life and work of an artist who recorded some of the most evocative photographic images of the 20th century. Dorothea Lange’s artistic achievements and untiring investigations into the diversity of American life and culture are presented through interviews with her sons and assistants.

“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.” (+)

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theparisreview: “The city is being constructed by an old woman...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:41:24 -0400

theparisreview:

“The city is being constructed by an old woman born in 1881 who wants to record all the important events in her life so that she can remember them. Each year that she has lived is designated by a street, and each week is represented by a door. The doors belong to places where important events occurred. The blank doors are for those weeks that she can’t remember. The old woman hopes that out of her memory and forgetfulness, as recorded in the streets of doors, a pattern or sign will emerge and she will one day see the story of her life. Every door opens on a small closet-like space. Only one door in each street of doors leads to the next street. It is therefore necessary to go from door to door searching for the entry door.”

—Alice Aycock, from “The First City of the Dead: The City of Doors (1914)”

All adventurous women do

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:39:01 -0400

All adventurous women do

theparisreview: One day it will vanish,how you felt when you...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:06:25 -0400

theparisreview:

One day it will vanish,
how you felt when you were overwhelmed
by her, soaping each other in the shower,
or when you heard the news
of his death, there in the T-Bone diner
on Queens Boulevard amid the shouts
of short-order cooks, Armenian, oblivious.
One day one thing and then a fear other
will blur and though they won’t be lost
they won’t mean as much

—Stephen Dunn, from “The Vanishings”
Photography Credit Dillon Marsh

fotojournalismus: From where hunger is green “Amidst the...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:05:05 -0400

fotojournalismus:

From where hunger is green

“Amidst the lushness of dark green maize and banana leaves, children in southern Ethiopia are visibly dying of hunger. Ethiopia is facing a hunger crisis, with an estimated 4.6 million people in need of food, 75,000 of which are children with severe malnutrition. The heavy rain falling almost daily came in June, but too late for the first of two annual harvests.

In this nation of 66 million farmers, poor rains, soaring food prices and one failed crop have contributed to a humanitarian crisis of hunger. With food stocks exhausted, the country has once again become dependent on food aid brought in from elsewhere. - July 2008.”

[Credit : Francesco Zizola]

Photo

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:37:15 -0400

theparisreview: Ori Gersht, Blow Up. The photographs depict...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:24:16 -0400

theparisreview:

Ori Gersht, Blow Up. The photographs depict elaborate floral arrangements, based upon a nineteenth century still-life painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, captured in the moment of exploding.

modelsofcolor: Carolla backstage for SPFW 2013

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:15:37 -0400

modelsofcolor:

Carolla backstage for SPFW 2013

black-boys: Zakaria Khiare & Morten M. by Oliver Stalmans |...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:19:26 -0400

black-boys:

Zakaria Khiare & Morten M. by Oliver Stalmans | Guapo Magazine Issue 2

jotobloke: Badu

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:56:25 -0400

jotobloke:

Badu

corinnebaileyrae: Today I am thinking about Nina Simone and the power that came through her.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:40:08 -0400

corinnebaileyrae: Today I am thinking about Nina Simone and the power that came through her.

thekhooll: Soyuz Blueprint of a Russian Soyuz rocket....

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:42:16 -0400

thekhooll:

Soyuz

Blueprint of a Russian Soyuz rocket. Click here to view big..!

fuckyeahexistentialism: “It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:38:44 -0400

fuckyeahexistentialism: “It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her...

Photo

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:29:03 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: “Jews and Muslims ‘dialoguing’ has nothing to do with Palestine. The...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:25:53 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: “Jews and Muslims ‘dialoguing’ has nothing to do with Palestine. The...

oumkhartoum: mehreenkasana: Four books by Frantz Fanon -...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:39:28 -0400

oumkhartoum:

mehreenkasana:

Four books by Frantz Fanon - Downloadable

The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove, 2004. Here it is.

Black Skin, White Masks. London: Pluto, 2008. Here it is.

A Dying Colonialism. New York, NY: Grove, 2007. Here it is.

Toward the African Revolution. New York, NY: Grove, 1994. Here it is.

If you haven’t read Fanon, now is the time. The zip file password is: archive.

I encourage the 3 followers I have to read these wonderful works.