Vederonica

Eclecticism.

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Translucent Hat, 1950 by Lillian Bassman

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Coy Mathis, 6-Year-Old Trans Girl, Wins Landmark Civil Rights Case and Makes History

Coy Mathis was just trying to live a normal, fun, happy life like the other students at her…

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—Stephen Dunn, Poetry, February 2003 Today’s the birthday of poet Stephen Dunn, whose biography at poetryfoundation.org states: “Dunn’s poetry reflects the social, cultural, psychological, and philosophical territory of the American middle class; his intelligent, lyrical poems narrate the regular episodes of an everyman speaker’s growth, both as an individual and as part of a married—and later divorced—couple.”

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On June 24, 1973, America’s largest LGBT massacre took place as 32 people lost their lives in a devastating New Orleans arson.

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Eve Arnold, Art class, Chongqing, 1979

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Photograph by Michelle Frankfurter

Michelle Frankfurter, a recipient of the 2013 Aaron Siskind Foundation grant, presented her series Destino which portrays the “perilous journey of undocumented Central American migrants along the network of freight trains lurching inexorably across Mexico, towards the hope of finding work in the United States.”

See all of the 2013 Aaron Siskind Foundation grant winners on LightBox here.

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What do the words “anthrax,” “drone,” or “Guantanamo” mean to you? Would you have thought of them differently 20 years ago? As artist Clayton Campbell shows in this photographic investigation, the times we live in shape our understanding of language. What words have touchstone meanings for you today? What might they mean in the future? Words We Have Learned Since 9/11 exhibition now open at the Exploratorium. Photo by Gayle Laird © Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu

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Jacques Henri Lartigue: Le jour des Drags aux courses a Auteuil lls n’ont pas gagne, Paris, 23 juin, 1911

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— Ernest Hemingway

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Charlie meets the “little tramp”. I circa 1918. Is this doll cute or what..can you imagine the worth of that doll today?  I love the little bubble butt it has, though chunkier that “the tramp” everything else is just perfect from the clothes, cane, derby and small hands.

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Eliott Erwitt - Paris, 1958.

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Eve Arnold

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Strangers on a Train, 1951 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

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