images and words: 12/1/18

Sumeet Kadakia - Photography

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Thomas Holm (Source: instagram.com)

Lubbock- Street Photography

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Lubbock - Street Photography (Source: 500px.com)

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Mexico, Colombia and Brazil among countries with highest rates of impunity for journalist murders

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All informations on Comitee to protect journalists.

Earth seen from Moon and Space

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A very nice National Geographic's reportage on the view of Earth from Apollo 8 mission and other captures.

Lynsey Addario

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She is one of the few photographers to have worked in both pre and post-9/11 Afghanistan, documenting life under Taliban rule followed by the American invasion. She has been kidnapped twice – first in Iraq and again in Libya – where she was photographing clashes between Gadhafi troops and rebel forces. She captured the human cost of the war in Darfur, helping to expose the atrocities taking place. The list goes on.

Stunning profile of Addario on BJP.

light and shadow

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Photo: Viajante Intencional

Cot - The Storm (1880)

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Pierre-Auguste Cot (1837-1883)
“The Storm” (1880)
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

Cot was born in Bédarieux, Hérault, and initially studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse before going to Paris. He studied under Leon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. In 1863 he made a successful debut at the Salon, and from the 1870s, his popularity grew quickly.

Cot enjoyed the patronage of the academic sculptor Francisque Duret, whose daughter he married, and of Bouguereau, with whom he had also worked. Bouguereau painted a portrait of Cot's daughter, Gabrielle. Bouguereau had dined with the Cot family to celebrate Gabrielle's marriage to an architect named Zilin. The artist made a gift of the painting to the wife of Duret, Gabrielle's grandmother.[1]

Cot won various prizes and medals, and in 1874 was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

He died in Paris at the age of 46. He is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (source)

The painting is reminiscent of an earlier work, Spring, which was completed by Cot in 1870. It was subsequently acquired by John Wolfe after it was displayed with astounding success at the Salon of 1873. It is believed that the presence of Spring in Wolfe's collection was the impetus that drove his cousin, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, to purchase it in 1880. Both are of roughly the same dimensions and are evidently related in a subject in the sense that both portray a young, nubile couple. It is from this therefore, that both are thought to form a symbiotic pair, where the success of the earlier work led to the creation of the latter. (source)