The Guardian: From polling to pasta quantities: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoonFrom polling to pasta quantities: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon

mapsontheweb: The major walls in Belfast known as the “peace lines” that are supposed to separate Catholic majority and Protestant majority neighborhoods There are about 100 ‘peace walls’ in Belfast still, a quarter century after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Source: Daily Mail

Do we understand a photograph differently if we encounter it in a newspaper rather than a book? In a photo album as opposed to framed on a museum wall? The “Public” Life of Photographs explores how the various ways that photographs have been made available to the public have influenced their reception. The reproducibility of... Continue Reading →

On the rooftops of Egypt’s capital, photographers reclaim the urban landscape. By Ismail Fayed Cairo Bats, Act 1: The Roof (Downtown), 2015 © Cairo Bats Setting: A rooftop that looks like a spacecraft. A glowing staircase with orange light. A repository of clutter. A jungle of satellite dishes. Figures appear. Women dressed in black pose within scenes of their own creation.... Continue Reading →

On the rooftops of Egypt’s capital, photographers reclaim the urban landscape. By Ismail Fayed Cairo Bats, Act 1: The Roof (Downtown), 2015 © Cairo Bats Setting: A rooftop that looks like a spacecraft. A glowing staircase with orange light. A repository of clutter. A jungle of satellite dishes. Figures appear. Women dressed in black pose within scenes of their own creation.... Continue Reading →

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