January 2010
39 posts
Evolution, Traced by the Lens - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com →
nytimes.com
Photographer Fred R Conrad returns to the sites of ‘Tax photos’. These were taken both as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1940s and again in the 1980s. The original photos show NYC property block and lot numbers
Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph – Telegraph Blogs →
blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Incredibly new Labour have set up a social media campaign asking for photographs of…. hospitals and schools and other buildings… the very things that photographers are regularly stopped from photographing under Anti Terror legislation introduced by ….new Labour. Then following photographers pointing out this contradiction…. all discussion was closed down.
“What is at stake here is not just press freedom but also our ability to move about and interact freely in public space, to document public and private lives in a spontaneous manner as we see fit. It is a curtailment of our everyday freedoms”
—Do these people look like terrorists to you? | spiked
“Cities enable people to become smart by learning from other smart people”
—Why Cities Matter | The New Republic
“I would rather we do a pragmatic structure that puts the optimal amount of kids in school. If the kids are in school, the parents can get a job, if the parents can work, the economy of Haiti can come back”
—Haiti earthquake: SF’s Architecture for Humanity makes a difference
“This self-imposed blockade by bureaucracy is a scandal but could be easily overcome. The NGOs and the military should recognise the hysteria over “security” for what it is and make use of Haiti’s best resource and its most efficient distribution network: the Haitians themselves. Stop treating them as children”
—Andy Kershaw: Stop treating these people like savages - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
The Geography of a Recession →
cohort11.americanobserver.net
animation of US unemployment rates
