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Join When Life magazine printed its first issue in 1936, the cover featured an austere photograph of the newly built Fort Peck Dam shot by Margaret Bourke-White. In a small town in Wisconsin, a teen girl named Esther Bubley saw that cover and decided that she, too, wanted to become a photographer. Her career would span the pages of the country’s leading magazines — Vogue, Life, The Saturday Evening Post — and send the intrepid photojournalist around the globe capturing hundreds of thousands of photos of people and places in the middle century. Today is the centennial of Bubley’s ...

Jane Bolin forged ahead on her chosen path despite the doubt and discouragement of those around her who should have been her mentors and supporters. Growing up as the daughter of a Black lawyer in Poughkeepsie, New York, she took an early interest in the profession. “It is easy to imagine how a young, protected child who sees portrayals of brutality is forever scarred and becomes determined to contribute in her own small way to social justice,” Bolin recalled later in her life. Though many tried to deter her, after finishing her studies at Wellesley College—where she was one of two Blac...

And in the beginning, there was Gordon Parks Gordon Parks in a frame from a 1968 contact sheet for “CBS Reports: The Weapons of Gordon Parks.” As with his many other talents, the groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker, Gordon Parks, possessed more cool than he could ever use. The Gordon Parks Foundation via The New York Times. by Guy Trebay (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Because this year marks the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking 1971 film, “Shaft”; because two fine shows of his pioneering photojournalism are on view at the Jack Shainman galleries in Chelsea; because a suite from his inf...

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry's The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines." The critics' conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American gro...

Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88 The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960 San Diego State University Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans' awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering scholarly publications, and mass-media portrayals. The...