Marqee’s cryptic text
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The Detroit Institute of Arts (via flickr.com/w4nd3rl0st)
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Brooklyn-based photographer Beth Fladung photographs transient spaces and its residents in her series Motel.
View Larger The Master of Coney Island: The Art of Larry Millard
Mural in Playland by Larry Millard (all images courtesy the Coney Island History Project)
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Knoedler Gallery Canoodler Glafira Rosales Arrested for Hiding $12.5M
One of the strangest finds on the internet when seaching for Glafira Rosales is this photo —…
okay so I’m sure a lot of this is national news now, but basically Oklahoma is not in good shape. I’m fine and all of my family and friends are fine. Moore, Oklahoma, 30 minutes south of me is destroyed. I just heard one of our main news reporters break down on TV because it’s…
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View Larger ‘When Saddam Hussein fell, we Iraqis were disoriented. For all our lives, he had always been there. His image was everywhere,’ says photographer Jamal Penjweny, whose series Saddam is Here depicts Iraqis in everyday locations covering their faces with pictures of the former dictator. ‘His image was in the cities where we live, on the walls of our schools, on our money, everywhere. Then he vanished. So taking a picture with Saddam was breaking a taboo that was created after the fall of the regime.’
Photograph: Jamal Penjweny/RUYA Foundation