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...poor side of a restive Havana in 1933, as well as late-'20s New York City. Though the city was booming, Evans was filled with ambivalence about a metropolis where billboards and skyscrapers jarred with the lowlife of the city's drifters. Torn Movie Poster, for example, captures Evans' wider sense of national doom: a mass-produced image tarnished with decay. The exhibition also shows off Evans' study of architecture in the American South...
Online dating sites are often regarded as the kind of things that mature adults use to recapture the wider-ranging romantic opportunities of their younger days. But now there are a growing number of sites that let college students connect up by logging...
...largely Muslim territory; it has altered the nature of that rebellion, hardening its fighters, narrowing the differences between secular nationalists and radical Islamists, and putting the Islamists in the driving seat. Having failed to drive Russian forces out of Chechnya via guerrilla warfare, the rebels have resorted to a wider offensive in neighboring territories such as Dagestan, Ingushetia and Ossetia, and have also placed a far greater emphasis on spectacular long-distance terror attacks in Russia proper...
...poor side of a restive Havana in 1933, as well as late-'20s New York City. Though the city was booming, Evans was filled with ambivalence about a metropolis where billboards and skyscrapers jarred with the lowlife of the city's drifters. Torn Movie Poster, for example, captures Evans' wider sense of national doom: a mass-produced image tarnished with decay. The exhibition also shows off Evans' study of architecture in the American South. For Alvarez Bravo, it was Mexico City's postrevolution population boom in the '20s that afforded perfectly constructed images of street life, or what the photographer...
...museum envisioned by Wilder, a descendant of slaves, will unabashedly be a museum about the brutal merchandising of human beings. The Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which cost $110 million to build and hopes to attract 250,000 visitors each year, has wider ambitions. Or looked at another way, it's more circumspect about its approach to a difficult subject. Even the center's name sidesteps the loaded word slavery. By taking the Underground Railroad as its focus, the center gets to emphasize biracial resistance, not racial victimization, a rare triumph of black and white cooperation in those days...