Pipeline (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Well, maybe just a little depression. But talk to people who lived through the real Depression, and in addition to stories (and more stories) about hardship, you’ll also hear how much closer families became during those tough times. I know I’ve often pined for less time for my family playing the Wii, and more time [...]
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
They came to California because there was nowhere else to turn.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
As a junior high school student in Santa Clara in 1974, Sheryl Brady opened up her United States history workbook and saw a familiar face in a famous photograph.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
COLUMBUS, OH.- Have you ever wondered what kinds of treasures are hidden in your neighbor's attic? Now imagine that neighbor has more than 300 libraries and collections housing everything from Thomas Moran paintings to unpublished Marilyn Monroe photos, Richard Petty's sunglasses to John Glenn's flight manual. These are just a few of the items Columbus Museum of Art curators
Daddy Types (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Delta County Fair, Colorado (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress. There's something about...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
[Because it sort of looks like this Dorothea Lange photograph. That's actress Lindsay Lohan and her deejay girlfriend Samantha Ronson leaving a Los Angeles restaurant last night; image via INF]
The Impatient Blogger™ (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Photo Credit: Dorothea Lange/Corbis Today's shiny happy crafting blog has been replaced with a snarky liberal political rant. As always, you are free to disagree. If you live in America, it is your constitutionally given right. That and our right to free speech. I am now about to exercise that right because I can no longer remain silent. I have a daughter who deserves a brighter future and it is my...
Words of Power (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Migrant Mother/Pea-Picker in the Dust Bowl, Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1936 If a museum in the next superpower nation ever commemorates the decline of the last great superpower, it will make the two-and-a-half page bill introduced this week the center of the display. Just as they do today at the National Archives’ Declaration of Independence exhibit, tourists in the future—perhaps in Beijing, perhaps...
Pensacola Beach Blog (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Hurricane Ike came not much closer than 250 miles from Pensacola Beach. Even so, it did appreciable damage and caused the deaths of two men. Check out the impressive "high water mark" photos of Barrier Island Girl, our own answer to Dorothea Lange . A five foot water surge with pounding waves eroded an estimated 70,000 cubic yards of beach sand. That's a mere fraction compared with Hurricane Ivan in...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The opening shot of the quietly gripping drama "Frozen River" ends with a close-up of actress Melissa Leo, whose face resembles a Depression-era Dorothea Lange portrait in its hard grief. As Ray Eddy, a single mother of two living in a trailer in Upstate New York, Leo delivers a tough, utterly...
BwT (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Any picture can speak 1,000 words, but only a select few say something poignant enough to galvanize an entire society. The following photographs screamed so loudly that the entire world stopped to take notice. ---Quote--- 1. The Photograph That Raised the Photojournalistic Stakes: "Omaha Beach,...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
LOS ANGELES.- In Focus: The Landscape, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, August 26, 2008January 11, 2009, offers an overview of the history of landscape photography from the dawn of the medium to the 20th century. Drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's collection, the exhibition brings together the work of more than 25 innovative photographers, all of whom
Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Tobacco sharecroppers. Photo by Dorothea Lange: Gordonton, North Carolina. Left-click image to enlarge.
History of Economics Playground (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Most of our works as historians of economics took for granted that there is a clear line between material elligible as economic ideas and theories and what is not, what is a fact of the history of economics and what is not. As a consequence, our community have considered exclusively or almost exclusively facts that [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Gordon Parks (19122006) was the first African-American photographer to gain an international reputation in the twentieth century. Prior to his recognition after World War II, African-American photographers were restricted to studio portraiture in black communities. Parks opened the field for African-American photographers with his accomplishments in
