shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2007 | photography
A powerful Slate/Magnum slideshow of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Quoted: Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Designed by Maya Lin and made of black granite, the memorial is shaped like a V with the names of the fallen and missing etched into it. Its design was met with criticism, but it is the most visited memorial in Washington, drawing over 4 million visitors a year.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 29 2008 | photography, politics, news
Talk about a historic day...
Quoted: On this day 45 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech during the historic March on Washington. Today Barack Obama, the first African-American to be nominated for the presidency by either major party, is scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 08 2008 | photography, olympics
A great Slate slide show of Olympic sights from the past and present...
Quoted: During the ceremonies for the unveiling of the emblem of the 2008 Olympic games at Tian Tan (Temple of Heaven) Park, 2003.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 07 2008 | photography, china
A neat Slate slide show of China 50 years ago.
Quoted: A unit of the People's Militia waits its turn at the daily morning drill. In the background, Tien An Men Palace, where the country's leaders stand to review patriotic parades, 1958.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 21 2008 | photography, authors
Happy birthday to one of my favorite journalists and authors!
Quoted: Known for his succinct prose and his adventurous life, Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, was born on this day in 1899.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 15 2008 | photography, news
A really intersting article about how the stock photography inudstry works... My friend Pammy is actually a creative researcher for Getty Images! Fascinating stuff...
Quoted: To learn more, I got in touch with the creative research department at Getty Images—a major player in the "visual content distribution" field. (Slate is one of Getty's many clients.) The job of the creative research team is to have photos and video waiting when demand for specific visual content crops up.
ShareViewed: 12 Times - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 14 2008 | french, holidays, photography
Happy Bastille Day!
Quoted: Magnum celebrates Bastille Day with baguettes and berets and other things for which we have the French to thank. Vive la France!
ShareViewed: 6 Times - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 10 2008 | photography, entertainment
Really interesting slide show of cabaret through the years (starting with the days of Josephine Baker) and all over the world.
Quoted: Slate and Magnum present 'Come to the Cabaret.'
ShareViewed: 5 Times - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 03 2008 | photography, holidays
Happy 4th of July (a day in advance)!
Quoted: Magnum and Slate celebrate America's independence.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 25 2008 | photography, new jersey
Great slide show of classic Atlantic City, Coney Island and other boardwalks.
Quoted: This week in 1870, the first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., was opened to the public . (This gallery contains some nudity.)
ShareViewed: 4 Times - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2008 | photography
Great slide show!
Quoted: Slate and Magnum present photos of weddings from around the world.
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