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timelightbox: US Soldier, 2008 Binh Danh appropriates iconic images of the Vietnam War, which ended 37 years ago today, and prints them on organic material such as leaves and grass. See more here.

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US Soldier, 2008

Binh Danh appropriates iconic images of the Vietnam War, which ended 37 years ago today, and prints them on organic material such as leaves and grass. See more here.

kianahayeri: Your Veil is a Battleground - Phase 2This is a new project that i’m working on, a different take on my previous project. This time exploring the hijab, fashion and make-up that young Iranian women use to empower themselves while pushing the boundaries. Stay tuned for more coming… 

kianahayeri:

Your Veil is a Battleground - Phase 2
This is a new project that i’m working on, a different take on my previous project. This time exploring the hijab, fashion and make-up that young Iranian women use to empower themselves while pushing the boundaries. Stay tuned for more coming… 

timelightbox: Yan Deng, Two Artists, 2010. 20 x 25 inches, Image courtesy of the artist. America through a Chinese Lens surveys photography of American life as shot by contemporary Chinese and Chinese American artists, documentary photographers and non-professionals, identifying the specific ways in which the Chinese have used the camera to see this country - its beauty, contradictions, and realities. The exhibition spans many generations of photographers: contemporary artists who use the medium as well as snapshots taken by new immigrants from the 1950s to today which have been selected from MOCA’s permanent collection. During the run of the show, new media artist and design strategist An Xiao will be shooting and posting photographs regularly as she travels throughout the west and southwest, offering a live visual essay about her America on their tumblr page: chineseinamerica.tumblr.com. Read more here.

timelightbox:

Yan Deng, Two Artists, 2010. 20 x 25 inches, Image courtesy of the artist.

America through a Chinese Lens surveys photography of American life as shot by contemporary Chinese and Chinese American artists, documentary photographers and non-professionals, identifying the specific ways in which the Chinese have used the camera to see this country - its beauty, contradictions, and realities. The exhibition spans many generations of photographers: contemporary artists who use the medium as well as snapshots taken by new immigrants from the 1950s to today which have been selected from MOCA’s permanent collection. During the run of the show, new media artist and design strategist An Xiao will be shooting and posting photographs regularly as she travels throughout the west and southwest, offering a live visual essay about her America on their tumblr page: chineseinamerica.tumblr.com.

Read more here.

life: From a story on the Ringling Bros. Circus in the April 4, 1949, issue of LIFE. The caption for this picture: “Nothing but circus all day every day is the happy fate of these two performers’ tots, who sit around the big tent watching as the pretty Miss Lola practices on a tightwire and an acrobat balances an odd contraption on his feet.”See more photos by Nina Leen here.(Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

life:

From a story on the Ringling Bros. Circus in the April 4, 1949, issue of LIFE. The caption for this picture: “Nothing but circus all day every day is the happy fate of these two performers’ tots, who sit around the big tent watching as the pretty Miss Lola practices on a tightwire and an acrobat balances an odd contraption on his feet.”

See more photos by Nina Leen here.

(Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

alexihobbs: outtake from an assignment I shot for TIME about Montreal’s literary sceneWilensky’s sandwich shop is mentioned in Mordecai Richler’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitzv and is part of the Montreal Jewish Library’s Walking Tour.

alexihobbs:

outtake from an assignment I shot for TIME about Montreal’s literary scene

Wilensky’s sandwich shop is mentioned in Mordecai Richler’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitzv and is part of the Montreal Jewish Library’s Walking Tour.

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timelightbox: From media magnates and shapewear superstars to a humanoid robot and the President of the United States, LightBox presents the portraits of this year’s TIME 100 issue. See more here.

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From media magnates and shapewear superstars to a humanoid robot and the President of the United States, LightBox presents the portraits of this year’s TIME 100 issue. See more here.

timelightbox: Oded Balilty—AP AP photographer Oded Balilty’s photographs reveal a quieter side of Israeli daily life—beyond the conflict.  “This region is so saturated by pictures from the conflict so you always look for different stories and events,” says Balilty. “I try to go deeper and deeper into a story to capture things that outsiders do not know about this particular group of people.” See the photos on LightBox here.Pictured: Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather for the traditional Jewish wedding of Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the great-grandson of the Rabbi of the Wiznitz Hasidic followers, in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Oded Balilty—AP

AP photographer Oded Balilty’s photographs reveal a quieter side of Israeli daily life—beyond the conflict. 

“This region is so saturated by pictures from the conflict so you always look for different stories and events,” says Balilty. “I try to go deeper and deeper into a story to capture things that outsiders do not know about this particular group of people.”

See the photos on LightBox here.

Pictured: Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather for the traditional Jewish wedding of Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the great-grandson of the Rabbi of the Wiznitz Hasidic followers, in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel.