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The Romantic Venus We Never Knew - Issue 43: Heroes
▻http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/the-romantic-venus-we-never-knew

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On the day that I was born—winter solstice, 1959—a headline in Life magazine proclaimed “Target Venus: There May be Life There!” It told of how scientists rode a balloon to an altitude of 80,000 feet to make telescope observations of Venus’s atmosphere, and how their discovery of water raised hopes that there could be living things there. As a kid I thrilled to tales of undersea adventure with telepathic Venusian frogs in Isaac Asimov’s juvenile science-fiction novel Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus. In 1975, when I was 15, a family friend—a planetary scientist—gave me a picture of the first-ever photograph taken from the surface of another planet: Venus. The Soviet Venera 9 probe had sent back a black-and-white image of a landscape with angular rocks and fine-grained dirt. A bright patch (...)

Gordon Parks stunning photos of families in 1950s Alabama | Daily Mail Online

▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2833736/Shotguns-sundaes-segregation-Gordon-Parks-stunning-photos-families-1950

Oh merci Elisabeth Vallet d’avoir signalé la publication de ces images étonnantes.

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Shotguns, sundaes and segregation: Stunning photos of families in 1950s Alabama offer poignant look at life during civil-rights era

African-American photographer Gordon Parks captured the lives of three families living in Mobile, Alabama in 1956
The collection, called The Restraints: Open and Hidden, follows the lives of three families
A total of 40 prints will now go on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia
Parks worked for Life Magazine for 20 years, shooting the likes of Muhammad Ali and Malcom X

#états-unis #ségrégation #racisme #photographie

Les classes sociales selon Life Magazine - Avril 1949

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#phrénologie #psychomorphologie #sourcils #Russell_Lynes

▻http://www.thirteen.org/openmind/history/upper-class-middle-class-and-lowest-class/880
THE OPEN MIND
Host: Richard D. Heffner
Guest: Russell Lynes
Title: “Upper Class, Middle Class, and Lower Class”
VTR: 7/10/81

HEFFNER: …in establishing what has happened to our country in terms of non-political power that I can’t think of anything more appropriate at this time than to ask you as you bring out this new edition of The Tastemakers, who makes taste today in America?

LYNES: Well, I think it’s changed, Dick. When this book was published 25 years ago, 26 years ago, you could pick out individuals whom you thought were responsible for setting tastes. Certain magazine editors, certain fashion people, and so on. And in the arts, certain museums. What has happened, it seems to me now, is that there has been a kind of bureaucratization of taste. We’ve got a whole lot of new elements now in who says what is good. We’ve got the government foundations for the arts and the humanities. We’ve got the big foundations like the Ford Foundation, which was more involved in the arts ten years ago than it is now, and a good deal more involved, oh, 20 years ago. We have the big corporations who are now devoting a good deal of money to the support of public television, of blockbuster exhibitions in museums, and so on. So what happens here, none of the things that happens here, is that this is taste which is approved by committees in foundations, in the government, in the national foundations, and I’m sure in the corporations, though there’s usually a vice president in charge of culture, I believe.