"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still"
Dorothea Lange (1885-1965) US documentary photograper who brought the reality of poverty during the Great Depression to the world #womensart#PhotographerWeek 📷
Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56. https://t.co/WQWxavBm5l
One of the most powerful endings in cinema.
The final minutes of The Last of the Mohicans (1992) are a masterclass in visual storytelling. With almost no dialogue, the film delivers love, sacrifice, heartbreak, and vengeance in one unforgettable sequence.
When Chingachgook stands alone at the end, the moment feels larger than any single character. It feels like the end of an era.
The White Devil's Daughters by Julia Flynn Siler is a nonfiction history book about the trafficking and enslavement of Chinese women and girls in San Francisco's Chinatown between 1848 and 1943. It focuses on the women who fought against that system and the safe house known as the Occidental Mission Home, where many escaped victims found refuge.
The title comes from the nickname given to some of the women rescuers, especially Donaldina "Dolly" Cameron. Chinatown traffickers called her the "White Devil" because she raided brothels and helped enslaved girls escape. The "daughters" refers both to the rescued girls and the women abolitionists who stood against the trafficking network.
'He's tiny! It's blue!'
Charles Darwin Foundation scientists discover a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres (5,900 feet) down on the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands. No bigger than a golf ball, the blue octopus has stubby little arms with only one row of suckers
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Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper.
Benito Pérez Galdós y su perro en la finca familiar de "Los Lirios", durante su visita a Gran Canaria en 1894. Fotografía de la Familia Pérez-Galdós.
En recuerdo del gran autor canario, nacido tal día como hoy de 1843.
#Encuesta: ¿Es Pérez Galdós el más notable novelista español?
The Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, which is renowned for having some of the most extensive and well-preserved Roman mosaics in the world.
This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography