Vishniac’s archive is being acquired by the International Center of Photography. The collection — which includes thousands of negatives taken during forays into Jewish communities in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia, along with reams of correspondence and personal documents —But the center will not only be acquiring Vishniac’s entire life’s work; as the [...]
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The Uncovered World of Roman Vishniac
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, World Issues on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Matt’s silly dance
Posted in Humanity, World Issues on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Also visit Matt Harding’s website here
“We live in a rainbow of chaos”–Cezanne
Posted in art, World Issues on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995) sold at Christie’s New York this week for $33.6 million. Making him the world’s most expensive living artist. “I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be” [Lucian Freud]. Also this week, a [...]
Mothers Day (for some)
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, World Issues, tagged Add new tag on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A child’s chance of celebrating a fifth birthday should not largely depend on the country or community where he or she is born. We need to do a better job of reaching the poorest children with basic health measures like vaccines, antibiotics and skilled care at childbirth. These simple measures… are not reaching millions of [...]
When reason is under siege, reasonable people must speak. Wise words in defense of seeking wisdom
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, World Issues, tagged Children, religion on May 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sidestepping an avalanche of evidence reinforcing Darwinian theory, its critics are pushing with worrisome success for public-school teaching of “intelligent design” — a fairy tale that hardly qualifies as a theory. This resistance to scientific scholarship is driven by fundamentalist believers, who’ve found quite a friend in President Bush. Editorial: Wise words in defense of [...]
