Marilyn Monroe, seen looking good below in a picture from July 1958, was born today in 1926.
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Category Archives: photography
Alfred Hitchcock: Amateur Photographer
“I am strictly a professional and an amateur. In my work, the approach to photography is terribly different – strictly the use of the pictorial for telling the story. In terms of amateur photography, my mind is not on it: I shoot pictures merely to recall places we have been, but not with any aim of pictorial quality.”
Steve Jobs at Home
STEVE JOBS AT HOME IN 1982 — “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” —Steve Jobs
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Related reading: http://www.allaboutstevejobs.com/
Iowa College Students in 1947
Partly because of the G.I. Bill, the University of Iowa, like many universities across the United States, experienced a surge in enrollment following the Second World War. In 1947, two years after the war ended, Margaret Bourke-White came to campus and took some pictures. Here are some of them, courtesy of the amazing LIFE photo archive.
One thing is for sure: college students used to dress better.
Posted in academe, photography, style
The Emptied Prairie
This past January, National Geographic ran a fascinating story about the decaying rural North Dakota landscape.
Money Quote:
That’s the rub in rural North Dakota, a sense of things ebbing, of churches being abandoned, schools shutting down, towns becoming ruins. And all this decline exists amid a seeming statistical prosperity: Oil is booming, wheat prices are at record highs, and, as the average farm size grows, the land is studded with paper millionaires living in the lonely sweep of the plains, with surrounding community gone to the wind.
Be sure to check out the accompanying slide show.
