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Editorial: On Syria, Liberal Interventionism, and Responsibility to Protect 27 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
Photos from Syria are too gruesome to publish. Clicking on the black square will take you to a reddit site which has complied them. Caution advised. Last week, there were allegations that President A...
A Llama in Times Square | Inge Morath 26 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
It was one of the more playful spreads in Life magazine. In its December 2, 1957 issue, the magazine featured a one-page story, humorously titled ‘High-paid llama in big city’. The story covered diffe...
Some Photos You Might Have Missed 20 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Here are a few photos from the last four years you might have missed. From left to right, top to bottom: Father Browne takes last photos onboard HMS Titanic, 1912; Agustin Casasola witnesses the deat...
Tutankhamum | Harry Burton 20 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
In November 1922, almost at the tailend of his expedition sponsored by Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter finally discovered the tomb which would make him the most famous archeologist outside fiction. Tuta...
Editorial: On Olympics, Sochi 2014, and Political Games 14 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
Ok. You know what I am going to rant about here. This: Russia’s grand vanity oligarchic Olympics, which costs $50+ billion, but has no space for LGBT people. In Russia, LGBT people and supporters are...
Srebrenica | Darko Bandic 9 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
In the past few years, this blog looked back at over 900 photos. Many are famous. A few are indelibly iconic. But only a handful could claim they have changed the course of history. This was one such ...
Jean Sibelius | Yousef Karsh 1 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
In 1949, when he was photographing a Shell Oil executive in London, Yousuf Karsh overheard his subject taking a call from Finland. The caller was Jean Sibelius, the reclusive Finnish composer, of whom...
The Oklahoma City Bombings 31 Jul 2013 | 12:03 am
It was a few weeks after the Oklahoma City Bombings in April 19, 1995. Not only was the story on the covers of Time and Newsweek, it seemed as if both magazines had used the same photo. Time editors w...
O. J. Simpson Cover | Matt Mahurin 21 Jul 2013 | 11:22 pm
If you were not living under a rock in the 90s, you probably have heard of O.J. Simpson and his murder trial. In short, the former football star (and actor manqué) was charged with the murder of his e...
Congo, Contd. 16 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
A few years ago, I wrote about the human rights crises in Congo throughout the 19th and 20th century. There, I have failed to mention a few details about the photo accompanying the post (reproduced ab...
