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Atget developed that understanding by prowling the streets in search of architectural details to photograph for his artist clients. His 1897 decision to document an endangered Paris coincided with the city's formation of a preservation commission to help rescue its disappearing landscape. Without official sanction Atget pitched in, setting off at dawn and working his way outward in concentric circles from the city center. He assembled his prints in albums, which he sold to local museums, galleries and the Bibliothèque Nationale. "Carrying his heavy and outmoded equipment on his back, casually and poorly dressed, he became himself...
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...lyrical ode to Africa. Jimmy Wales, inventor of Wikipedia, met with Richard Dawkins, the biologist and outspoken atheist, to explain why Dawkins' attempts to edit Wikipedia entries kept being rejected. Philip Rosedale, creator of the popular Second Life, a virtual world online, crisscrossed the cocktail floor in search of Suzanne Vega, the noted singer, whom he had met on Second Life but never in person. Each table was a microcosm of the TIME 100 issue, with leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs joining in conversation...
...search to fill the new position will begin immediately, according to Faust’s letter, and will be conducted by an informal advisory group designed to help the president-elect “think through the structure and function of the position.” The group includes Law School Dean Elena Kagan, Business School Dean Jay O. Light, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds, Allston leader Christopher M. Gordon, Chief of Staff Katarzyna E. Lundy ‘95, Board of Overseers Vice Chair William F. Lee ‘72, former Vice...
...Horowitz currently works on using radio and optical telescopes in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), but his adventure on the airwaves began much earlier...