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2013: The Huge Buddha Head
Hua Weicheng: The Huge Buddha Head (2013) From the series End of Ashes (here)
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Tagged 21st Century, Art, Buddhism, China, Hua Weicheng, Photography
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2003: Bureaucracies Around the World
From Jan Bannings’ Bureaucratics series. “Sushma Prasad (b. 1962) is an assistant clerk at the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar (population 83 million) in The Old Secretariat in the state capital, Patna. She was hired “on compassionate grounds” … Continue reading
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1933: Osip Mandlestam Writes his Last Poem
And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry tree. It was all leaflife and starshower, unerring, self-shattering … Continue reading
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1891: Midnight on the Somme
Jean-Charles Cazin: Midnight (1891) (source) The Catalogue from Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago, U. S. A (1893) provides the following description: The scene is located at Abbeville, on the river Somme, in France. One is readily impressed with the … Continue reading
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1893: Cook’s Kitchen Mine
J. C. Burrow: Above The 406, Cook’s Kitchen Mine (1893) (source) Commissioned by its owner to showcase new mining technology, J.C. Burrow’s photographs of the Cook’s Kitchen Mine in Cornwall are some of the earliest examples of flash photography. “The … Continue reading
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16th Century: The Throne Verse of the Qur’an as a Horse
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