For years, Joan E. Biren crisscrossed the U.S. with a slide show that told an alternative history of photography with lesbians as central protagonists.
Martin Pederson interviewed this week Antonis Antoniou and Steven Heller, author of
Decoding Manhattan, a new book that compiles over 250 architectural maps, diagrams, and graphics of the island of Manhattan in New York City, talking about the origin story of the book, the process of research, and the collaboration.
In a very real sense, the island of Manhattan is a place created by a diagram: The Commmissioner’s Plan of 1811, which laid out the future streets north of Houston Street and south of 155th Street, was essentially a map disguised as a planning document. So there’s real conceptual beauty to Antonis Antoniou and Steven Heller’s new book,
Tracing Kansas Cityâs Ties to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Centennial Next Week Share this story Published 2 hours ago Above image credit: The ruins of Black Wall Street after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. (Courtesy | Library of Congress)
Last October an Oklahoma forensic team found 12 unmarked coffins containing human remains in a Tulsa cemetery.
What investigators called a âmass graveâ represented evidence of what witnesses had described almost a century ago â that victims of what often is considered the worst incident of racial violence in American history had been buried together without any stone or memorial marking the spot.
The discovery also meant 21
Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Color Photographs
A great photobook, Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Color Photographs, presents 280 amazing images by color photography pioneer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Color Photographs
A great photobook, Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Color Photographs, presents 280 amazing images by color photography pioneer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
When, in 1909, the color photography pioneer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii began his journey to capture all of Russia in color images on behalf of the czar, the scope and importance of his undertaking were clear. Since 1905 he had planned to systematically document the empire with the color photography technique he had developed in order to give all Russians, particularly school
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Their Courage Shaped a Nation
“Resting here until day breaks and shadows fall and darkness disappears is Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches” – Epitaph on Quanah Parker’s gravestone
On March 4, 1905, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade. With him in the parade of 35,000 were five other Indian leaders: Geronimo, Little Plume, American Horse, Hollow Horn Bear and Buckskin Charlie, representing the Apache, Blackfeet, Oglala, Brulé and Ute people, respectively.
Despite criticism from politicians and the press that six Indian leaders who once fought against the United States would be in the parade, the befeathered leaders rode with dignity and pride, and were greeted along the parade route with applause.