NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Edith Cullen Shain is the nurse in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo V-J Day in Times Square taken 63 years ago today. She kept her identity secret for 34 years, then identified herself to Eisenstaedt and he confirmed it was her when they met. From an interview two years ago: “The street was just [...]
News & Observer (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Glenn McDuffie may have spent the past 25 or 30 years in Houston, but he's still a Carolina boy -- born in a mill house at Cannon Mills and raised on Packard Avenue in Kannapolis, just up the street from some of the world's greatest race car dri
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Some memories from that day are so clear, 63 years later, that Ernie Dubay can still hear them. The buzz in his barracks as sailors switched into their dress blues. The shuffle of feet as he clamored out of the Seventh Avenue subway and headed for the party of his life.
raging universe (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Some people view the world as gloomy. They believe that things don't really go well overall. But I think, actually, we're part of one functional system, probably designed to survive and maintain health. If you were a cell in a human stomach, for example, the world might look rough, but the whole body works. Some people are doing a double take watching what seems to be the beginning of a political balancing...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Amateur photographer Mike Stimpson has recreated some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century... in Lego.
Photo Business News & Forum (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
So, you can add (as descibed here on the Time Life Archive page) to the "... iconic moments of the 20th century, where you will find Alfred Eisenstaedt's sailor kissing nurse in Times Square, Margaret Bourke-White's Chrysler Building gargoyle and Gjon Mili's picture of Pablo Picasso "painting" with light, to name a few...." all of Sports Illustrated's imagery. It too is now in the hands of Getty Images...
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” --Robert Doisneau, French photographer, (1912-1994)
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
By Baker, R C Best in Show 'Post War Perspectives' La urence Miller Gallery 20 West 57th Street Through March 29 Take Your Pic Someone had a blast putting together this show of photographs taken between 1945 and 1960.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peachpit today announced the publication of
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
It's not the greatest Italian food ever (nor the cheapest; $2.75 for an appetizer?). But at Orsini's, the tables are meant for people-watching.
Away With Words (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
What's the story with Match.com's newest logo? I mean that question literally: what story is the design telling? Let's take a closer look at the graphic element: One boy, one girl. From the looks of it, they met on the door of a public restroom. He's standing rigidly; she's leaning...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
The power comes from the fact it so obviously references the famous "Times Square Kiss."... Because Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo captured America's WWII victory over Japan, this pic seems a (perhaps, way too) gentle reminder not to forget about the Iraq. In its muted quality -- running hard against the grain of the typical wild abandonment accompanying the Times Square ball drop -- the pic seems...
The World Almanac (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
This Day in History 1712: The last issue of the Spectator, an influential 18th-century journal written by English essayists Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, appears. 1790: Philadelphia becomes the U.S. capital, succeeding New York City. (It remains the nation's...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Your birthday today: You are original, cautious, accurate, have great determination and it is very hard to move you once your mind is made up. You are a sincere and loyal friend and sacrifice much for friendship's sake. You love travel. In your home you demand obedience and get it through love rather than by force. There are no birthdays listed in the book for today, but there is one wedding -- Willis...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/06/2007
Ms. Boulat was an award-winning photographer known for a clear, descriptive style and a knack for making emotionally moving, often idiosyncratic images of people affected by war.
