Some maintain that, like a nineteenth-century photographer (CalifornianCarleton Watkins, for example) having sold his negatives for a profit, Atget naturally went about rephotographing familiar subjects, perhaps a little differently, to replenish his stock. Others–Szarkowski chief among them–see this ...
Many of Murray’s essays, poems, and books (“Negroes Are Fed Up,” Dark Testament, and States’ Laws on Race and Color) were foundational works of the Civil Rights Movement. Murray cofounded the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Organization for Women in 1966, alongside many ...
J. Conrad Schulze has had a decidedly unglamorous life as a bartender, disc jockey, waiter at a Chinese restaurant, women’s shoes salesman, short-order cook, gas-station attendant, telemarketer, and courier. He has even taught 3rd grade Science and Math. His only brush with fame (so fa...
As our planet emerges into a new epoch in which humans dominate the Earth system, it is imperative that societies initiate a new phase of responsible environmental stewardship. Here we argue that information from the past has a valuable role to play in e
Yet, we find absolutely nothing." Crone says: "Greek trading documents refer to the towns of Ta'if (which is close to present-day Mecca), and to Yathrib (later Medina), as well as Khay- bar in the north, but no mention is ever made of Mecca. Even the Persian Sas- sanids, who...