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Behind the Scenes at New York’s Home for Music Discovery
Above: Alisa Ali, PCS ’14, hosts the midday show on WFUV. Photos by Matthew Septimus There was a familiar hum around the WFUV studios in late October, one that had been slowly coming back in recent months, after COVID-19 forced hosts, programmers, and engineers to figure out a way to work from home for more than a year, leaving the station mostly empty. In the newsroom, Maya Sargent, a graduate fellow from Fordham’s public media program, sat at a computer editing What’s What, the station’s daily news podcast on current events, cultural news, and issues affecting the New York City area. Down a few seats, Sam Davis, a Fordham College…
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‘Invisible Man’ Author Ralph Ellison Was Also a Prolific Photographer. A New Book Spotlights Hundreds of His Polaroids and Street Scenes
Lovers of the celebrated American novelist Ralph Ellison will before long have a probability to check out the Invisible Man author through an totally new lens. The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Believe in has partnered with the Gordon Parks Foundation and German publishing residence Steidl to release Ralph Ellison: Photographer. Out this thirty day period, the book offers 200 earlier unpublished pictures by Ellison, together with Polaroids of his home existence and candid avenue scenes, a foreword from the Gordon Parks Foundation’s govt director Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., and a few new essays on Ellison’s oft-neglected visual follow by Adam Bradley, John F. Callahan, and Michal Raz-Russo. All the book’s images…
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Natural Landscape Photography Awards 2022: beautiful scenes with minimal editing
American photographer Brent Clark has been topped the winner of the 2nd annual Pure Landscape Pictures Awards 2022. The award was made to celebrate reliable, reasonable landscapes with negligible edits ensuring that the landscapes highlighted are kinds people can belief. Brent Clark impressed the panel of intercontinental judges with a collection of pictures that confirmed of diverse styles of photographers. From hyperrealistic pictures of sand dunes in the desert to a lot more art-motivated close-ups of patterns in mother nature. His bold use of hues and a eager eye for depth landed him the best place and the grand prize consisting of $5,000 in hard cash, a Canon EOS R5…
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Philly photojournalist in Ukraine documents early scenes of Russian invasion
The photograph of Helena’s bandaged deal with stared out at the planet on Friday early morning — one particular of the initially victims of the Russian invasion that the earth noticed on the entrance webpages of dozens of newspapers. Blood checkered the woman’s experience and leaked by means of the gauze bandages wrapped close to her head. She was hurt in a Russian airstrike that hit the japanese Ukraine town of Chuhuiv early on Feb. 24 just hrs after Russian forces launched a total-scale invasion. And Philadelphia-dependent freelance photographer Wolfgang Schwan was a person of the very first journalists on the scene to document her survival. “She was the initial…
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‘The Chosen’: Artist Liz Lemon Swindle paints inspiring scenes of Jesus
There was a time when Liz Lemon Swindle was not interested in watching “The Chosen.” The artist’s son tried several times to get her to watch the faith-based television series featuring the life of Jesus Christ, but she always found an excuse to pacify him. “‘Sure I will,”’ Swindle said she told him, “not ever intending to watch it.” Finally, after much persistence by her son, Swindle agreed to see the first episode. One powerful scene touched her heart and suddenly she was hooked. Less than two years later, a 30-inch-by-40-inch original painting with a decorative frame that depicts Jesus and Mary Magdalene in a tender, heartfelt embrace is displayed…
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Blue Origin to send William Shatner to space as Russia films movie scenes on ISS
It’s a big day for news about movies in space with the announcement that Captain Kirk is finally about to blast off for real and Russia is sending a filmmaker and an actor to the International Space Station to make a film. Key points: Shatner’s flight will soar to about 106 kilometres The Russian filmmaker will spend almost two weeks on the International Space Station The crew plans to film segments of a new movie titled Challenge Jeff Bezos’s space travel company, Blue Origin, said that Star Trek actor William Shatner would join three others — two of them paying customers — aboard a capsule on October 12. “Yes, it’s true; I’m going…