News & Information (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Ten or 12 years ago, my wife and I drove north through New York State for our summer vacation. When we got to Rochester, we visited the George Eastman House, the world’s oldest museum of photography, and……Read more
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund wishes to remind all that call for submissions to its 2008 Grant in Humanistic Photography is still open for entries. Application deadline for the coming W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is July 15, 2008. Photographers interested in applying may download an application at: http://www.smithfund.org We hope you will spread the word by email to photographers...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
MADRID - The exhibition includes over 200 images from the most emblematic series taken for Life magazine in the 1940’s and 1950’s and the projects Pittsburgh and Minamata. A full review of the series Country Doctor, Nurse Midwife, A man of Mercy and Spanish Village is made. W. Eugene Smith is one of the main figures in humanist photography and his career centred on his obsession with the truth, resulting...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
Whether you're a first time visitor or an old-timer, thanks for stopping by. We've put up an average of ten posts per day of things that caught our eye, for fifteen months. If you're curious about a topic, use the "Search Blog" box. Some of the more popular searches this month: Solar Wind Carbon Warren Buffett Boone Pickens I read somewhere that America is not a country, it's an idea, that a free people...
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 25/04/2007
In anticipation of the first U.S. Malaria Awareness Day on April 25, award-winning photographer Chien-Chi Chang is traveling through Uganda, where malaria is the leading cause of death, claiming as many as 110,000 lives a year. Chang's photo series inaugurates Magnum on Malaria, a new partnership between Magnum Photos and the nonprofit Malaria No More to chronicle the global fight against malaria through...
