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...Borrowed from animé and manga, Suekichi's style is labeled "steampunk" and draws visual inspiration from a steam-powered epoch, when amateurs fashioned fabulous machines for all kinds of purposes. In a tucked-away workshop, that's exactly what Suekichi does - working with old parts, he crafts watches one might imagine being worn by characters in a Jules Verne novel. Some 6,000 have been sold in the past 12 years - a very respectable figure, considering the amount one unhurried artisan can produce, and a demonstration of Suekichi's ability to imagine everyday objects afresh...
Telling America's story in pictures is a particularly American thing to do. We're a visual people, and U.S. history can seem like an epic newsreel set to a jazz and rock-'n'-roll sound track...
...editors pored over the archives of Time and Life magazines, the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress and of state and regional historical societies, and rarely seen private collections to produce a comprehensive visual chronicle of America's journey from its birth as an idea 400 years ago in the Jamestown settlement to how we vote on American Idol. The more than 600 images range from the intimate back rooms of history to the grandest of public moments. We see a young Teddy Roosevelt watching through a window as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege marches down New York City...
...Perhaps it’s that despite a degree from Harvard (in Visual and Environmental Studies, no less), Kim hardly had the skill sets and knowledge of design necessary to make it in the industry—a problem she sought to solve at at La Chambre Syndicale, the last of the couture schools in Paris...
This semester at Harvard, when the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department offered a studio course titled VES 40a: “Introduction to Still Photography,” the students might have expected to learn the alchemical process of mixing chemicals in the darkroom to produce their prints. But this year, half of the 20 enrolled students were given Canon Rebel XTI digital cameras instead of the Pentax K1000 film cameras that the other 10 students received. The move, according to teachers, may be controversial, but is necessary. “Before, you would conserve and put all your...