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#picturethis: 1970s youth captured by high school teacher
By feimineach / in #picturethis / September 22, 2017Source: mx-niqo: Before Joseph Szabo was a world renown photographer, he was a teacher at Malverne High School in Long Island. And on his first days at the job he figured that he’s gonna need someth...
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#picturethis: London – photographed by the young and homeless – @guardian
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / June 8, 2017The Guardian is hosting a new exhibition of images by young people affected by homelessness – all of whom have been learning new camera skills at Accumulate. Photographers’ names and captions (and ...
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todayin: history: February 27th 1933: Reichstag fire
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / March 4, 2017todayinhistory: February 27th 1933: Reichstag fire Onthis day in 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin, whichhoused the German Parliament, was set on fire. The Nazi government ofAdolf Hitler ...
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#picturethis: “skinheads” – @riandundon
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / December 28, 2016#picturethis: “skinheads” - @riandundon Visceral. ••• If you hear “skinhead” as a synonym for neo-Nazi, think again.This British-born subculture has a long and varied history dating back to the 1...
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#picturethis: “oppression” – @riandundon
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 21, 2016#picturethis: “oppression” - @riandundon These Algerian women were forced to remove their veils to be photographed in 1960If looks could kill, then a camera aimed at an unwilling subject is an inst...
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#picturethis: The village where men are banned Umoja in Kenya
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / December 18, 2016@theguardian: Umoja in Kenya started out as a refuge for victims of sexual abuse. Fifteen years later the women-only village is thriving. Photographer Georgina Goodwin © visits the single-sex commun...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Carrie Mae Weems
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 1, 2016theparisreview: Carrie Mae Weems, “Untitled (Phone),” 1990, black-and-white photograph, silver print.
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: simone de beauvoir, jean paul sartre
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 1, 2016simone de beauvoir, jean paul sartrefrom History in Moments on twitter.
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#picturethis: revisiting mary ellen mark’s powerful photos of seattle street kids – @i_D/ @vicemag
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / May 20, 2016#picturethis: revisiting mary ellen mark’s powerful photos of seattle street kids - @i_D/ @vicemag In 1983, Mary Ellen Mark began shooting portraits of homeless youth in Seattle for what began as a...
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#picturethis: Photos of female asylum patients by a Victorian psychiatrist
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / May 13, 2016#picturethis: Photos of female asylum patients by a Victorian psychiatrist who used photography to analyze mental disorders:Hugh Welch Diamond was an early British psychiatrist and photographer who ma...
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#picturethis: 11 powerful feminist messages, written on the bodies fighting for them (HuffPo) (NSFW)
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / May 10, 2016#picturethis: 11 powerful feminist messages, written on the bodies fighting for them (HuffPo) (NSFW).Liora began the project, titled “Feminism,” in 2012, after she moved to a Republican state for the ...
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#picturethis: Remembering the Kurdish uprising of 1991 on BBC news
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / April 9, 2016#picturethis: Remembering the Kurdish uprising of 1991 on BBC news:After more than a month of intensive air attacks and a short land offensive by the US-led coalition against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, th...
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#todayin: labor history: November 24, 1875
By feimineach / in #quickhits / November 26, 2015todayinlaborhistory:Today in labor history, November 24, 1875: The United Cigar Makers of New York affiliates with the Cigar Makers’ International Union (CMIU) to form CMIU Local 144. Samuel Gompers w...
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#womensstories: The Kid From This Famous Mary Ellen Mark Image Tells The Story
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / November 8, 2015The Kid From This Famous Mary Ellen Mark Image Tells The Story Behind Her Riveting Photo (bust)Like any talented photographer, the late Mary Ellen Mark’s photos leave us wanting to know more about her...
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#todayin: labor history: October 4, 1936
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 28, 2015todayinlaborhistory:Today in labor history, October 4, 1936: An estimated crowd of more than 100,000 trade unionists, anti-fascist activists, and local residents barricade streets leading into London’...
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#womenslives: Frontline Photojournalist Lynsey Addario About Fear and Female Resilience
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / April 13, 2015(All images © Lynsey Addario / Getty Images) Frontline Photojournalist Lynsey Addario About Fear and Female Resilience “Libya was incredibly violent,” frontline photojournalistLynsey Addariobegins...
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