Results for "Science journalism"
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Who do you trust?
- Date: July 30, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1641" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="why? dia doscientos catorce, by Flickr member, Andrea"][/caption] Last weekend, I was working, editing a short essay about the rise of “citizen journalism” by Fred Ritchin, author of the recently published After Photography, which we’ll be uploading soon on click! photography changes everything.
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Both Sides Now
- Date: April 13, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Candice Bergen, October 1981, LIFE Magazine, © Time Inc."][/caption] Most of us know what it’s like to be the subject of a photograph and to take one, to be seen and to see. But some of us, due to unusual circumstances, know more about that than others. In her 1984 autobiography, Knock Wood, Candice Bergen wrote with
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Everything Always Looks Good Through Here
- Date: February 9, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: John Waters’s 1998 movie Pecker is the coming-of-age story about a young man who can’t stop himself from taking pictures. “Man, everything always looks good through here!” Pecker exclaims, squinting through his viewfinder and throughout most of the film, it does. Photography is all about looking, and when it was time to invite someone to address the subject of voyeurism for
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With a Little Unpaid Help From My Friends
- Date: August 15, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Late in July, LENS, a New York Times blog that focuses on images and issues photographic, posted an interesting story by James Estrin. Magnum Photos, the legendary co-operative photo agency founded after World War II by photographers including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson, announced that to boost the visibility (and paid use) of the hundreds of thousands of images it
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You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?
- Date: May 9, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some
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What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It
- Date: December 15, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various
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Forget Me Nots
- Date: January 19, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_4140" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="Auguste Deter, Alois Alzheimer's patient in November 1901, first described patient with Alzheimer's Disease, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] From the moment we began to conceptualize the content of click!, it became obvious that we’d need to investigate photography’s relation to memory from a
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Be It Ever So Humble. . .
- Date: September 2, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2154" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Model picture of suburbia, by Flickr member John Wardell (Netinho)."][/caption] Forget the fact—if you’re lucky enough to be able to—that real estate today is dominated by talk about dropping prices, shaky derivative products and foreclosures. Instead, think positive, and about the central role photography
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Smooth Operator
- Date: April 11, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.