Through the lens of time Sep 22, 2009
Four decades later, the Polaroid Collection has 16,000 prints by 120 recognized masters: 443 Ansel Adamses, 198 Phillipe Halsmans, 35 Mary Ellen Marks, and so on through Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, Inge Morath, and Margaret Bourke-White. It s not just Polaroids. (Boston Globe)
Art museums new East Wing is a celebration of firsts Jul 3, 2009
The new Cleveland gallery pays homage to our industrial roots with Margaret Bourke-White s photograph Hot Pigs, taken at Cleveland s Otis Steel Company; The Pie Wagon, depicting a scene from Cleveland s industrial heyday by Carl Gaertner; and Cleveland Jewish artisan Louis Rorimer s sterling silver Tea and Coffee Service. The magnificent wrought iron and brass fire screen from the Rose Iron Works is currently on display in the Decorative Arts Gallery, 1900-1945. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
'Charlie's Angel' Farrah Fawcett dies at 62 Jun 26, 2009
She also starred in biographies of Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld and photographer Margaret Bourke-White. In 1995, at age 50, Fawcett stirred controversy posing partly nude for Playboy magazine. (Anchorage Daily News)
New LIFE photos from day of King assassination go online Apr 4, 2009
"I shot just enough to document what was going on. I didn't want to make a nuisance of myself. "I was documenting a momentous event, and I thought that at any time I was going to be asked to leave, so I did what I could as quickly as I could," he said. Life.com, a joint venture between Time Inc., which owns the LIFE archives, and the Getty Images photo service, went online on Tuesday. The website features pictures from LIFE's historic collection and new photos from Getty. The LIFE collection... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Williams College exhibit highlights outsiders of Chinese society Mar 15, 2009
Burtynsky presents what one might call a Charles Sheeler or Margaret Bourke-White version of China. He photographs massive things - shipyards, assembly lines, hydroelectric dams - things meant to make other, less-massive things. (Boston Globe)
