Marie Rexford, who is Inupiaq and lives in Kaktovik, Alaska, preparing muktuk.
Photographed by Brian Adams. Published in NYT: Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives.
December 6, 1993 — Astronaut Story Musgrave works on the Hubble Space Telescope while the orbital observatory anchored to the Space Shuttle Endeavour. (SpaceShuttleAlmanac)
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Protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, protesters endure law enforcement tear gas grenades. Photo by Elizabeth Hoover, via Dr. Adrienne Keene.
Photo of the Day: The Sanctuary
Edited photographer note: An elderly woman prays to the gods, asking them to help stop the earthquakes in Nepal.
Photo by Rui Pires (Ilhavo, Portugal); Nepal
From our 13th Annual Photo Contest. Winners announced in the spring!
Yasmin with mug, 2014, a photo by Karolin Klueppel in Mawlynnong, one of the world’s rare matrilineal societies. From The New York Times:
“In the Khasi culture,” Ms. Klüppel said in an email interview, “women and girls have a special standing in the society and, of course, this exceptional role ‘produces’ a great self-confidence. I did not want to do a classical documentary on their culture, but tried to capture this outstanding role somehow. I decided to make a portrait series of the girls because I was so impressed by their self-assured appearance and thought this must be how matriliny becomes visible.”
In Khasi culture, the youngest girl in a family inherits its wealth and property, and children take their mother’s surname. Having only boys is hard luck. Khasi women marry whom they want — no arranged marriages there — and divorce or chose to remain single with no stigma.
The girls do work at an early age, Ms. Klüppel said. Despite the tourism, Mawlynnong is still a farm town, which means everyone works. The girls do household chores and take care of younger siblings. But Khasi girls are content, Ms. Klüppel said. So are boys, until they reach manhood and experience an imbalance of power in the household.
President Obama and Supergirls at the White House Science Fair by freelance journalist Brendan Smialowski, via @b0yle.
From Slate Magazine, Gordon Parks – Back to Fort Scott at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston:
Gordon Parks hadn’t been to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas, in more than 20 years when he returned there in 1950 as a photojournalist on assignment for Life magazine. Growing up as the youngest of 15 children, Parks attended the Plaza School, an all-black grade school in the heavily segregated town. Now, as the first black man hired full-time by the magazine, Parks wanted to find and photograph all 11 of his classmates from grade school as a way of measuring the impact of school segregation. The photo essay he created, which was never published, is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the exhibition, “Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott,” beginning Jan. 17.
These C-Section Babies Were Photographed at Less Than 20 Seconds Old. Work by photographer Christian Berthelot, featured at Slate.
“I know there are people who react very badly, who find it disgusting, they tell me that I do not have the right to show the children in the bloodstream,” he said.” Some even told me that it is not real, it is not true. This is absurd. Children are not born in cabbages or roses. And there are those who are fascinated, I give them the opportunity to observe in detail the violence of birth, but there are also people like my wife, who encouraged me to do this work, because caesarean is beautiful birth.”
“What continues to amaze me is that it never stops. With each passing moment, a child is born, from all over the world, all the time, births never stop.”
From Wired: “An Amazon.com employee stocks products at an Fulfillment Center in Phoenix on Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the holiday season, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. Ross D. Franklin/AP”
In 1966, photographer Danny Lyon returned to his hometown of New York City after spending years documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the South and motorcycle gangs in Chicago. Once back in the city, Lyon took his mother’s advice: “If you’re bored, just talk to someone on the subway.” Using a Rolleiflex camera and Kodak color transparency film, he started taking photographs of New York’s commuters and its dingy, fluorescent-lit train stations.
Now, eight of Lyon’s large-scale subway photographs are on view for the first time in Underground: 1966. The show, hosted by MTA Arts & Design, will be up for a year at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn, seen by the 40,000 people who pass through the transit hub every day.
via FastCo Design.
Santa’s real workshop: the town in China that makes the world’s Christmas decorations
Inside the ‘Christmas village’ of Yiwu, there’s no snow and no elves, just 600 factories that produce 60% of all the decorations in the world. Photo: China Daily/Reuters.
A woman urges people not to shop as she protests the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images.
August 25, 1959.
Miles Davis covered in blood after an altercation with police
“Altercation” sounds so polite, like it was a mutual thing and not one man getting assaulted by the police. Miles got beat up by the police.
The cops assaulted Miles because he was black. He was standing outside Birdland where he just performed and was taking a break. His name was on the marquee. They saw him escort a white female friend from the club into a taxi and then they approached him after as he was taking a smoke break. The cops told him to “move on”. Miles said he was playing at the club and was on break. They weren’t hearing any of that. One cop then punched him in the stomach, while another one cracked him on the head with a nightstick. That’s why he’s covered in blood. He was a victim of police brutality.
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