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Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was

Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was
Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house. John began developing his new collection of photographs, some 100,000 negatives in total, that had been abandoned in a storage locker in Chicago before they ended up at the auction house. A self portrait: Before he could reach her, to John’s great dismay, he found her obituary notice in the Chicago Tribune in 2009. Now, the guy who bought that box of negatives at his local auction house has made a documentary film about the incredible discovery of a lost talent and the path to Finding Vivian Maier. The film will begin screenings in March 2014. Related:  Photography

Your beautiful eyes Behance Served Sites Served is a collection of sites that showcase category specific content from Behance, the world's leading platform for creative professionals across all industries. View All Served Sites → photography Served Join Behance Hire a Designer Behance Project Shuffle Showcase & Discover Creative Work Sign up for free View Next Project → Shuffle <img class="featured-ribbon-2x featured-ribbon featured-ribbon-net" src=" title="Photography Served"></img> Project Featured On: Photography Served — 6/6/10 Your beautiful eyes Info Statistics Created: 2/20/10 Last Edited: 7/26/15 Description Extreme close of eyes, with all their relief. Project Info Owners Suren Manvelyan Tags Copyright Info Attribution Non-commercialNo Derivatives Read More Share inShare Short link: by Yerevan, Armenia Follow on Bēhance Eye with coloboma.Visit my facebook page to find more photos: Save Project

En Corée, les magasins flottent au-dessus des passants Des ballons volants facilitent l'accès au magasin en ligne E-mart en Corée du Sud. En Corée du Sud, de mystérieux ballons gonflés d’hélium se baladent dans les allées commerçantes ou dans les couloirs du métro. Sous leurs allures enfantines, ces ballons constituent un nouveau pan de la stratégie marketing de chox d’E-mart, le leader local de la grande distribution. Ces ballons offrent aux utilisateurs de smartphones une connexion gratuite à un réseau Wi-Fi. Une fois connectés, les mobinautes reçoivent des bons de réduction à valoir aux caisses des magasins E-mart ou sur l’application marchande mobile du supermarché. 50.000 nouveaux clients mobiles Dans un pays hyper-connecté comme la Corée du Sud, l’intérêt n’est pas d’offrir un accès mobile à Internet. E-mart répond ainsi à Homeplus (groupeTesco), son principal concurrent sur le marché local.

25 Books To Sharpen Your Social Skills (and Transform Your Career) Humans are strange creatures. Luckily, since you are one, you already have all the tools you need for getting along with them. Even though they come so naturally to some people, no one is born with the skills for fitting into society; these skills are learned over time. It’s never too late to improve your ability to meet people, make friends, and communicate. These 25 books can help you take your social skills to the next level and earn you huge payoffs in both your personal and professional lives. PeopleSmart: Developing Your Interpersonal Intelligence by Mel Silberman: In an easy-to-read style, Silberman lays out practical techniques for developing your “IQ”: your interpersonal quotient. Littauer is well-known in marriage counseling circles for her books and writings, but she is more generally an expert on personalities.

Sergey Chilikov: A photographer’s work from during Soviet-era Russia through modern times (PHOTOS). Sergey Chilikov/courtesy of Grinberg Gallery, Moscow. From Sergey Chilikov: Selected Works 1978–, published by Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam. This post contains nudity. It would be difficult to guess Sergey Chilikov’s photographs are a product of repressive, Soviet-era Russia. The book’s introduction describes the bleak place photography held in Soviet Russia during the 1970s. Into this realm came Sergey Chilikov, one of the founding members of the FACT group, which was active from 1976 to 1988. The small freedoms depicted in Chilikov’s work are happily out of step with the usual images from this particular time and place. “Just image ideological tunnel vision and baiting, which were typical in the 1970s in the USSR. Regarding the prevalent nudity in his work, specifically topless young women, Chilikov didn't feel as if he were expressing anything out of the ordinary.

Boatbound Launches ‘Pier-To-Pier’ Boat Rental Marketplace Today Boatbound, the Airbnb for boats, launches its service to help boat owners offset the cost of ownership and let more people experience the joys of the water. With over $1 million in funding led by Benjamin Ling and 500 Startups, Boatbound’s listings website lets pre-screened captains rent fully insured vessels across the country ranging from basic motorboats to sailboats to yachts. Back in February, co-founder Aaron Hall gave us the first interview about Boatbound as it went into private beta. He explained how most boats sit unused for 95 percent of the year, making ownership incredibly expensive for the value it provides. That’s why boats have even more potential than homes for the sharing economy. The challenge is making those owners confident that their boats won’t be damaged, and if they are, they’ll be paid for in full. They’ve also been storming AngelList to fill out Boatbound’s $1 million+ early-stage funding round.

25 Banned Books That You Should Read Today Almost since the dawn of publishing, books have been banned for one reason or another. Many notable banned books are also compelling reads from classic or contemporary literature. This list summarizes 25 of the most controversial banned books from throughout history. #1 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harper Lee's only novel is considered by many to be among the greatest works of fiction in American literature. #2 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Ellis is a frequent target for protests due to the nature of his writing, but none has faced the level of opposition of American Psycho. #3 And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson This picture book tells the true story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins in New York City's Central Park Zoo. #4 The Awakening by Kate Chopin Chopin's story of Edna Pontellier asserting her independence was a pioneering work of feminism when it was published in 1899. #5 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. #6 Candide by Voltaire D.

Photos: Everyday objects that look like solar system planets. Simon Wright is a graphic designer in Australia*. He decided he needed to challenge himself to give his brain a workout, so he created what he calls his “Solar System Challenge”: without using Photoshop or any additional after-effects (with the exception of Instagram), create a set of pictures of everyday objects that look like the planets in the solar system. The results are pretty cool: Image credit: Simon Wright If you go to his Facebook page where he has those shots, you can see them in more detail. Click on each one to get an explanation of what it is and which planet it is. Image credit: Simon Wright My favorite is the picture for the Sun. I like Wright’s gumption. What will you do to challenge yourself today? *Correction, March 9, 2013: The post originally implied that Simon Wright worked for Hub Creative.

This Is The Best Ad Campaign In App History What better way for an anti-social app to get noticed than by insulting its target audience? London-based app design studio ustwo has just put up a pair of billboards in the hipster heartland of Shoreditch, East London, a stone’s throw from where its own studio is based, which brazenly proclaim: You have no friends and No one likes you. The billboards, which will be teasing Shoreditch’s hipsters for two weeks, are an experimental ad campaign for one of ustwo’s recent apps: random photo-sharing app Rando, which launched back in March on iOS. So what’s with the anti-social insults? Turning to a fixed-location, paper-based advertising medium may seem pretty old school but Silicon Valley has long had a bit of a thing with billboards. ustwo’s Matt Miller tells TechCrunch that’s certainly one reason he was keen to experiment with papering giant fliers atop one of Shoreditch’s busier junctions. “We originally came up with the straplines a few months back and mocked them up into billboards.

Twenty-five Things to Know on Becoming a Teenager A family I know has a tradition of making a book when their children hit 13. Everyone writes a memory, or a piece of advice. I set down to write a list of 25 things that are *actually* true. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Drone Over Washington - Rebecca J. Rosen Artist and critic James Bridle's UAV-focused show opened this week at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, one block from the White House. STML/Flickr Before you set foot in James Bridle's new exhibit at D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art, you will likely walk directly on top of its largest work: an outline of a Reaper drone, as though it were passing right overhead, on the sidewalk outside the museum, one block from the White House. The piece stems from a conversation Bridle had with a friend, Einar Sneve Martinussen, in January of 2012. They went out to the parking lot outside Bridle's London studio with a diagram of a drone and a bit of chalk and sketched out a drone to actual size. This piece, like all of the pieces in the exhibit, are borne of Bridle's struggle to understand drones -- what they are and what they mean for people and governments around the world. The project is a sort of play on Instagram's common function. Creech AFB, Nevada (STML/Flickr) Shamsi, Pakistan (STML/Flickr)

Cost Per Like: A Subjective Valuation of Your Facebook Fans "Cost per Like" often crops up in conversations about Facebook advertising, though it isn't a term officially sanctioned by Facebook. So what exactly does it mean? Cost per Like refers to the cost of acquiring a new fan for a Facebook page, either through paid advertisements or, less directly, through earned media efforts. There are three ways to "buy" Likes on Facebook. Earlier this month, Facebook unveiled a new metric for evaluating advertising campaigns on Facebook, called "cost per action" (CPA). For now, advertisers can only select CPA ads through Facebook's Ads API. How to Determine the Value of a Fan It sure is nice to have a lot of Facebook fans. Recently, social media marketing agency Syncapse and research firm Hotspex conducted a study that attempted to assess the average value of a fan based on collective product spending, brand loyalty, propensity to recommend, media value, cost of acquisition and brand affinity. Not All Fans Are Created Equal

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