photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson Albert Camus, Paris, 1944. Coney Island, New York, 1946. Romania, 1975. Naples, Italy, 1960. A football game, Michigan vs. Northwestern, 1960. At the Le Mans Auto Race, France, 1966. Uzbekistan, 1954. Visitors from kolkhozy to the eleventh-century Alaverdi monastery, 1972. Improvised canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropol, 1954. The Arbat, Moscow, 1972. Chelny, Russia, 1973. Boston, 1947. New York, 1935. An African-American student is denied entry to a theater. Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, 1960. Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris, 1946. Dessau, Germany, April, 1945. Nehru Announces Gandhi's Death, Birla House, Delhi, 1948. World's Fair, Brussels, 1958. Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, 1946. New York, 1960. Bankers Trust, New York, 1960. Near Strasbourg, France, 1944. The arrival of a boat carrying refugees from Europe reunites a mother and son who had been separated throughout the war, 1946. Communist students demonstrate against the black market. McCann-Erickson Agency, Madison Avenue, New York, 1959.
Nadia Shira Cohen | Online Only All images courtesy of Nadia Shira Cohen. Captions below. In her photo essay Flee, which is featured in Ten Years Later, Nadia Shira Cohen explores the border between Tunisia and Libya, where a sea of migrant workers and refugees had gathered, still wearing the hard hats adorned with the logos of companies that once employed them in Libya. She talks to Granta’s Artistic Director Michael Salu about finding and photographing moments of intimacy, even during times of war and chaos. MS: Could you tell us about how you found yourself in Ras Ajdir, as opposed to, say, Tripoli? Well, I have to admit that I was called for an assignment in Ras Ajdir to photograph the refugee situation because of the type of work I normally do, which is not typically the coverage of breaking news events. Your delicate use of the lens arrested me as soon as I came across your work. When I started out it was because of a desire to explore cultures that were foreign to me and people with fascinating life stories. 1.
Color Photos of New York from the 1940s A set of rare images captures the city's classic buildings along with its timeless spirit All photos courtesy of the Charles W. Cushman collection at Indiana University In 1905, after years of living in Paris, Atlantic author Alvan Sanborn came home to a New York City that was, he wrote, "a wilderness of sprawling ugliness." In Lower Manhattan, new 20-story skyscrapers were ruining the view, blocking the elegant spires of Trinity Church and the swoops of the Brooklyn Bridge. Even the city's stateliest sections lacked Paris's charm and symmetry, Sanborn complained; the buildings seemed to be "turn[ing] their backs most impolitely on one another." But after a month at home, Sanborn's disgust gave way to giddy excitement. After a generation of immigration, jazz, and Art Deco, that jumble of buildings sprouted into a true city. A modern New Yorker will see at a glance how the city has changed since Cushman snapped these photos. Cushman Collection Full Screen
The Resignation of Wadah Khanfar and the Future of Al Jazeera The resignation last week of Wadah Khanfar as managing director of Al Jazeera has provoked speculation that scandal lurks beneath his departure. Many have pointed to a WikiLeaks cable stating that Khanfar had succumbed to pressure from the U.S. in 2005 and played down civilian casualties in some of the network's coverage of the Iraq War. Others have argued that larger political matters related to its coverage of the Arab Spring -- especially its unrestrained, albeit selective, endorsement of democratic reforms -- forced Khanfar's ouster. Both suggestions contain more fancy than substance: it is hard to believe that Doha did not already know about Khanfar's talking to the U.S. ambassador or that pro-democracy strands in Al Jazeera's programming would end his career. (Khanfar regularly ruffled feathers during his tenure.) The more intriguing question is what comes next for Al Jazeera. To continue reading, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Register for free to continue reading.
25 of the Most Influential News Images of All Time News Photography is all about capturing the decisive moment in an aesthetic way. It is about telling the world a story, through one or more images. Many times, news images come to be remembered as symbolically associated with a certain event, remembered for decades thanks to that special news image. Let us look at 25 such images. Remember, news images need NOT always be technically sound. Some may be grainy; some may even have a marginal amount of camera shake…as long as they tell the story right, its all right! The Great Depression This image of Florence Thompson from the 1930s came to be associated with the great depression, for years to come. Abe Smith and Tom Shipp Abe Smith and Tom Shipp were convicted of robbery and rape in 1930. Jesse Owens Jesse Owens was the most successful athlete in the 1936 Olympics. Moment of Death This image of militiaman Federico Borrell Garcia, captures the precise moment of his death. Hindenburg Fall Of Nazi Collaborators Iwo Jima Atom Bomb Skymaster Racism,1957
The Curious Science of Counting a Crowd On June 4, a huge crowd gathered in Hong Kong for a vigil to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. But just how huge? In some stories 77,000 people showed up. Another story, though, listed the attendance as nearly double that: 150,000. There's a reason for the disparity. This story of competing head counts is not uncommon. "Almost everyone who has tried to make a crowd estimate has a vested interest in what the outcome of the estimate is," Charles Seife says. Crowd-Counting 101 Herbert Jacobs, a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, is credited with modernizing crowd-counting techniques. Fifty years after Jacobs, the tools for counting crowds have improved but the principle is the same: area times density. But a simple area times density calculation has its limits. Knowing what to expect, Westergard chose his observation point and launched a tethered balloon at the height of the rally.
Old New York in Colour - Lower East Side New York, NY - Franny Wentzel - Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 : goo Browsing articles link - [previous] :: [next] From the Charles W. Cushman collection of colour photographs - This set taken in 1942 New York City Lower East Side Flat bldgs. Residents of lower Clinton St near East river Saturday afternoon Lower East Side Corner Broome St. Stores near corner of Broome St. and Baruch Place, Lower East Side. On New York's lower East Side. Tower of Brooklyn Bridge from South St. Looking up Fulton St. from South St. Above river side drive just north of George. Lower Manhattan Doorway - Lower East Side. Old lady reads Sunday paper. Poverty, young and old, black and white. Crowd gathers during Salvage collection in lower East Side. Collecting the salvage on lower East Side. Sunday sees airing of bed rooms. West Canal St. A corner on west Canal St. New York Street Scene, Lower East Side These two live in a big new housing project. Corner of Broome St. & Baruch Pl. N.W. corner DeLancey & Lewis Sts. Lewis St.
Empirical Software Engineering As researchers investigate how software gets made, a new empire for empirical research opens up Greg Wilson, Jorge Aranda Software engineering has long considered itself one of the hard sciences. After all, what could be “harder” than ones and zeroes? A growing number of researchers believe software engineering is now at a turning point comparable to the dawn of evidence-based medicine, when the health-care community began examining its practices and sorting out which interventions actually worked and which were just-so stories. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Broadly speaking, people who study programming empirically come at the problem from one of two angles. The other camp typically focuses on the “what” rather than the “who.” The questions we and our colleagues seek to answer are as wide-ranging as those an anthropologist might ask during first contact with a previously unknown culture. Along the way, our field is grappling with the fundamental issues that define any new science.
Photo Of The Year 2010 The World Press Photo Of The Year Contest is one of the most prestigious annual events for press photographers. These are the winners in 2010. Read the descriptions underneath each image to find out more about the setting and the photographer.Warning: Some images are graphic in displaying the horror that can be human life.UPDATE: Check out our World Press Photo Of The Year 2011 edition. 101. 202. 303. 404. 505. 606. 707. 808. 909. 1010. 1111. 1212. 1313. 1414. 1515. 1616. 1717. 1818. 1919. 2020.
March of the Penguin: Ars looks back at 20 years of Linux The Linux kernel was originally created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, and first announced to the world on August 25, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. At the time, Torvalds described his work as a "hobby" and contended that it would not be "big and professional" like the GNU project. But the Linux kernel turned out to be one of the most significant pieces of open source software ever developed. Over the past two decades, it has grown from a humble hobby project into a global phenomenon that runs on everything from low-cost e-book readers to a majority of the world's supercomputers. Here's how it grew. From Freax to Linux While it's easy now to take the name "Linux" for granted, Torvalds had modestly rejected the idea of naming the new kernel after himself, instead calling it Freax. The original 0.01 release of Linux could not actually run. The UNIX landscape at the birth of Linux MINIX also played a major role in early Linux history.
Early 1900s in Colour All around the world - Franny Wentzel - Thursday, May 6th, 2010 : goo [previous] :: [next] In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography www.albert-kahn.fr/english/ Autochrome was the first industrial process for true colour photography. www.albertkahn.co.uk A few photos from the collection. Portraits Algeria Dahomey - now Benin Bosnia Brasil Bulgaria Cambodia Canada China Croatia Dijbouti Egypt England France Germany Greece Holland India Iran Iraq Ireland Italy King Faisal Lebenon Macedonia Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Norway Palestine Serbia Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Syria Turkey United States of America Vietnam This article has been viewed 3311213 times in the last 4 years dglenn: Fantastic!!
Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse Windows XP's retail release was October 25, 2001, ten years ago today. Though no longer readily available to buy, it continues to cast a long shadow over the PC industry: even now, a slim majority of desktop users are still using the operating system. Windows XP didn't boast exciting new features or radical changes, but it was nonetheless a pivotal moment in Microsoft's history. The transition to pure 32-bit, modern operating systems was a slow and painful one. In the history of PC operating systems, Windows XP stands alone. The success was remarkable for an operating system whose reception was initially quite muted. It faced tough competition from Microsoft's other operating systems. For home users using Windows 95-family operating systems, Windows XP had much more to offer, thanks to its substantially greater stability and security, especially once Service Pack 2 was released. In the end, none of the objections mattered. The long life of Windows XP The downside of longevity
20 Famous Photos 20. Houdini and Lincoln Harry Houdini was a Hungarian magician, escapologist, and stunt performer that wasextremely successful in the beginning of the 20th century. Towards the end ofHoudini’s life he turned his energy towards debunking self-proclaimed psychics andmediums. 19. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located on ThreeMile Island, which is south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 18. Migrant Mother is the name given to Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of FlorenceOwens Thompson and her children. 17. On July 5, 1924, the Washington Senators first baseman Joe Judge hit a fly ball to rightfield. 16. Frédéric Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. Since the publication of this list another Frédéric Chopin photograph hasbeen released. 15. The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began onJanuary 31, 1968. 14. The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech that was given by Abraham Lincoln. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5.