Although the images of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife fill our minds, the housekeeper is left to our imagination. Here, her image begins to rise out of the newspaper. This piece was based on the July 1st article on the Strauss-Kahn case, it can be found here. The photograph in the newspaper is by Stan [...]
...read more! →
The police and demonstrators clashed Wednesday in Athens during protests against austerity measures passed by Parliament. Markets rallied globally, but John Kolesidis’s front page photograph reminded me of tragic open water rescues, where rescuer and victim, in their panicked states, pull one another under the water and both perish. Government officials who are locked in [...]
...read more! →
Tweet
...read more! →
33rd president of the the United States, 33rd degree Mason of the Scottish Rite, Trinity site, Hiroshima, & Nagasaki all along the 33rd northern parallel. “Art has sometimes attacked this disconnect: see Warhol’s “Atomic Bomb,” Takashi Murakami’s skull-faced plume and the ending montage of “Dr. Strangelove.”And photography has done the same, in the form of once-classified [...]
...read more! →