Today's Highlights:
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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Spotlight: Edward Steichen, born on this date in 1879, was a pictorialist photographer at a time when photography was not universally respected as an art form. Steichen worked with his close friend, Alfred Stieglitz, to found Photo-Secession, a group that strived to have photography recognized as a fine art. As curator of NY's Museum of Modern Art, Steichen created the Family of Man exhibition. The collection of 503 photos taken by some 270 photographers in 68 countries was a depiction of the human experience. It was turned into a book, with a forward written by Steichen's brother-in-law, Carl Sandburg.
Quote: "Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
Question of the Day: What was 291?291 was the popular name given to the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, an art gallery set up in 1905 by photographers Alfred Stieglitz, F. Holland Day and Edward Steichen. The name was taken from the gallery's address, 291 Fifth Ave., New York, NY.
Although the initial aim of the gallery was to promote photography as a fine art form, only the very first exhibit was made up only of photographs. Soon, different forms of modern art, including paintings, sculpture and graphic arts, were exhibited at 291. More
Word of the day: phanerogam (n. A plant that produces seeds.
[New Latin phanerogamus : Greek phaneros, visible (from phainein, to cause to appear) + Greek gamos, marriage; see -gamous.]
phanerogamic phan'er·o·gam'ic or phan'er·og'a·mous (
Usage: It may be time to start planting some of the phanerogams that will bloom in your summer garden.
For those in the northern hemisphere, spring has sprung. Flowers are blooming, the world is green, and we can feel summer in the air. Take a whiff of this week's words having to do with spring and regrowth.
Today's History:
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| Happy 10th Birthday, Viagra |
- Nikita Khrushchev: became prime minister of the Soviet Union (1958)
- Good Friday Earthquake: North America's most powerful earthquake struck Alaska, measuring 8.4 on the Richter scale (1964)
- Tenerife crash: the world's worst aviation disaster took place when two 747 airliners collided on Tenerife, Canary Islands (1977)
- Viagra: was approved by the FDA for erectile dysfunction (1998)
Today's Birthdays:
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| Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson |
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923): physicist who developed X-ray imagery
- James Callaghan (1912-2005): British PM; Japanese Prime Minister Sato Eisaku (1901-1975) and US Sec'y of State Cyrus Vance (1917-2002) were also born on this date
- Walt Mossberg (61): WSJ technology columnist
- Quentin Tarantino (45): filmmaker, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill; film actors born today include Michael York (66) and Xuxa (45)
- Fergie (33): singer who started out with the Black Eyed Peas and went solo; other singers born today are Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) and Mariah Carey (38)
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