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Jazz Iconography: Blue Note at Seventy-Five
If you’re in Washington, D.C. from now until the beginning of July, do yourself a favor. Stop by the Goethe-Institut, an organization that celebrates and promotes German culture, and take in the...
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Vogue’s New Brat Pack
First there was the Rat Pack. Then the eighties birthed a group of eight actors who commonly starred in teen dramas together and were collectively known as “The Brat Pack.” Vogue magazine has just...
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Why Elvis Would Never Have Taken a Selfie
Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll, a new book of photographs, isn’t really about Elvis Presley. It’s about what was going on around Elvis as he rose to rock stardom. In 1956, Alfred Wertheimer was...
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Do Clothed Pinup Models Signal a Return to Modesty?
Ladies and gentlemen, clothing is making a comeback. The naked lady might very well be on her way out and maybe, just maybe, our culture is preparing to return to modesty. It started seven weeks ago...
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Sexy Photoshoots for Orthodox Jews?
What if everything popular culture tells us about sexual gratification is wrong? It seems that a growing number of religiously committed couples are taking a page out of the Playboy playbook to please...
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Hijabi Fashionistas Show That Modesty Can be Beautiful
Vogue recently featured hijabi Instagram star Amaal Said, “a 20-year-old Danish-Somali photographer and poet” who lives in London and frequently posts stylish images of herself to social media. The...
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Rembrandt’s Avatar and the Virtues of Creativity
Almost 350 years after the master artist’s death, a new Rembrandt painting has been unveiled in Amsterdam, and it’s creating quite a stir – because the painter this time was a group of art historians,...
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Calvin Klein’s Upskirt Photo Goes Too Far
Despite the fact that American culture is obsessed with using sex to sell anything and everything, some things—and some images—are still off-limits. At least, that’s what Calvin Klein is discovering...
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The Unsung Virtues of the Old-Fashioned Family Photo Album
I have roughly 10,000 photos sitting on my iPhone. I’ve never downloaded them because my computer doesn’t have enough memory to hold all the photos. Last year, I downloaded around 7,000 photos to a...
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Behold the Media’s Photo-Propaganda
Recently, New York magazine published a profile piece on Donald Trump’s White House counselor and campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. The profile itself is well-written, and overall I found it to be...
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