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In memoriam: Edith Shain – Iconic WWII Nurse
Jun 26th
This past week, one of the subjects of the most iconic WWII photograph ever taken passed away.
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Edith Shain, age 92, passed away at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday. 65 years ago, her embrace with a US sailor celebrating the end of World War Two became one of the most famous photos in history.
Shain was a nursing student in New York on August 14, 1945, when the surrender of the Japanese was announced. She made her way to Times Square to join in celebrations, where she let a man in a Navy uniform gather her up in his arms before giving her a kiss. The moment was captured by photographer Alfred Eisenstadt and later appeared in Life magazine.
According to the photog Eisenstadt, he had spotted a sailor walking through the crowd kissing every woman he saw. More >
Omayra Sanchez – Photographies, That Shook The World
Jun 24th
Many see this photo from 1985 as the beginning of what we nowadays call “media globalization“, because Omayra Sanchez’s agony was followed by television cameras from all over the world.
Omayra Sanchez
Despite all the footage that was recorded by those tv cameras, it was this photograph, of a shocking reality and humanity, that went down in history as the first broadcast of the pain and death of a human being.
Omayra Sanchez, 13 years old, was the victim of volcano Nevado del Ruiz’s eruption in 1985, that devasted the Armero village, in Colombia. Omayra was trapped for three days under the mud, clay and water that was left from her own house. When the paramedics, with scarce resources, tried to help her, they sadly realized there was nothing they could do, since to remove her from the deadly trap they would have to amputate her legs and the lack of a speacilist on the scene would result in her death. More >
Erik Johansson: The art of manipulation
Jun 20th
Erik Johansson, a young computer engineering student from Sweden, has been taking the blogosphere by storm by producing heavily manipulated photographs which invert aesthetics as we understand them, inspired by MC Escher and surrealist artists.
Aged just 25, and due to complete his Masters in Interactive Design in under a month, he has already been bombarded with offers of work following a wave of interest from blogs and design magazines after he published his innovative photographic work on his website.
Instead of shying away, as some photographers do, from revealing the intense levels of Photoshop work done on the images he produces, Johansson is proud of the technique he has developed and says it is “somehow different from other kinds of art”. More >
Marin Preda, în amintiri.
Jun 17th
MINICA ROȘU, un prieten din copilărie al scriitorului: “A fost un mare singuratic.”
Se împlinesc 30 de ani de la moartea lui Marin Preda. Un răstimp în care amintirea marelui scriitor se șterge, încet-încet, ca un abur. Când a murit Eminescu, Iosif Vulcan, editorul revistei “Familia” din Oradea, susținător infocat al poetului, a scris cu litere de o șchioapă: “Toți cei care l-ați cunoscut, scrieți!”. Păstrați-i aura și memoria pentru cei ce vor veni după noi. Așa au apărut cele mai impresionante mărturii despre Eminescu, scrise de colegii lui de școală din Bucovina și de studenții teologi ardeleni, care l-au întâlnit în călătoria pe care poetul a făcut-o la Blaj. Pe noi, cei de azi, ne despart trei decenii de moartea autorului “Moromeților”. Paradoxal, pe măsură ce opera lui câștigă în importanță, imaginea creatorului ei se topește ca fumul. Înainte de a fi prea târziu, “Formula AS” va propune câteva mărturii ale unor oameni care l-au cunoscut îndeaproape.
Interviurile sunt realizate de SORIN PREDA, nepotul de frate al scriitorului.
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Herta Müller takes Nobel prize for literature.
Jun 16th
German novelist Herta Müller, who received death threats in her native Romania after she refused to become an informant for the secret police during Ceaușescu’s totalitarian regime, is only the 12th woman in 108 years to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Praised by the Nobel judges for depicting the “landscape of the dispossessed” with “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose”, Müller returns constantly to the oppression, dictatorship and exile of her own life in her novels, essays and poems.
Born in Romania in 1953, Müller refused to cooperate with Ceaușescu’s Securitate, lost her job as a teacher and was the subject of repeated threats until she emigrated in 1987. She now lives in Berlin, where she has been the recipient of a multitude of literary awards, including Germany’s most prestigious, the Kleist prize, the Frankz Kafka and the 100,000 euro (£85,000) Impac award for Hertzier. The story of five young Romanians living under Ceaușescu’s dictatorship, Müller has said that she wrote it “in memory of my Romanian friends who were killed under the Ceaușescu regime”, and that she “felt it was my duty“. More >
