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What A Hack, Man

15. Mar, 2021 0 Comments

Gene Hackman by Herb Ritts, 1996

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Al B. Shore!

06. Nov, 2020 0 Comments

The Comedy Store’s 20th Birthday


top, left to right – Yakov Smirnoff, Jeff Altman, Tim Thomerson

bottom, left to right – Bob Saget, Mitzi Shore, Pauly Shore, Jim Carrey, Louie Anderson

photo by Monty Brinton, August 3, 1992

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Towering Achievement

11. Sep, 2020 0 Comments

construction workers on the top floors of the World Trade Center during construction, October 21, 1970

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Dressing Windows

10. Sep, 2020 0 Comments

Girls in the Windows, 1960 by Ormond Gigli is an image not only about beauty, fashion and the ingenious orchestration of 43 women standing at the windows and on the sidewalk, some daringly climbing onto the window sills. It is also a slice of time in history, as it captures a row of three classic New York Brownstones, which were demolished the day after the shoot. Gigli, who lived across the street, wanted to immortalize the buildings and thus envisioned the photograph. His meticulous planning and direction resulted in a dramatically compelling and memorable artwork.

The richness of the photograph stems from the ability to appreciate it in different ways: either as a whole, as a rhythmic composition of color and form, formed by the pattern of windows, human figures and colorful dresses; or the viewer is drawn to explore its various parts, each woman presenting a different point of interesting story (Gigli’s wife is on the second floor, far right and the demolition supervisor’s wife is on the third floor, third from left). It has since been the inspiration to many recreations by other image makers

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Scan Artist

17. Aug, 2020 0 Comments

The first image scanner developed for use with a computer was a drum scanner. It was built in 1957 at the US National Bureau of Standards by a team led by Russell A. Kirsch. The first image ever scanned on this machine was a 5 cm square photograph of Kirsch’s then-three-month-old son, Walden. The black and white image had a resolution of 176 pixels on a side

thank you Mr Kirsch

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