Yemen. Reuters [email protected], Boston Globe. ”The ’V for Victory’ campaign was launched by the BBC in 1941, 70 years ago, as a symbol of defiance toward the Nazis. In the 1960s it became a peace symbol, and in the 1970s Richard Nixon turned it into a personal political emblem. Here, anti-government demonstrators make it their own.”
The Oscar Race, Pt. 2. u201dA couple of years ago, Helen Mirren won a Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II, and now everyone is laying odds that Colin Firth will get a Best Actor award for playing her father, George VI, in The King's Speech. British photographer Rankin gave Firth the old-fashioned glamour treatment in this shot for Vanity Fair's portfolio, but it's a post-modern glamour that allows us all to be in on the joke.u201d Photo by Rankin, Vanity Fair, March 2011.rn
The Oscar Race, Pt. 4. u201dThis photo of Jesse Eisenberg takes non-glamour to a new level, but of course it's just the actor in character as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.u201d Photo by Peter Hapak, Time, February 21.rn
The Oscar Race, Pt. 3. u201dAfter playing such a badass in those Harry Potter movies, Helena Bonham Carter got to be a sweetheart again when she played George VI's wife, Elizabeth, in The King's Speech. Walker's photo seems to a a visual recognition of her versatility.u201d Photo by Tim Walker, Vanity Fair, March 2011.
Pakistan. u201dA remarkable set of images depicting daily life in Islamabad and in slums on the outskirts of the city.u201d Photos by Muhammed Muheisen/AP, Boston Globe.
Dallas, Texas. Photo by John Biever. Sports Illustrated, February 5, 2011. u201dThe snow and ice crippled Dallas, but inside the roofed Dallas Cowboy's Stadium it was raining only confetti after the Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl XLV. Green Bay linebacker Diyral Biggs celebrated the news.u201d
Cairo. Photo by Scott Nelson, New York Times. u201dThe revolution will be televised. And photographed. And Twittered.u201d
Madrid. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images, USA Today, January 31, 2011. u201dUnnatural phenomenon: Workers covered a construction site with a sheet painted to look like an abstract building.u201d
South Carolina. Photo by P. Wesley Tyler Jr., National Geographic, January 7. u201dNatural Phenomenonu2026we hope: The appearance of u201chole punchu201d clouds, like these over Myrtle Beach, have created mild panic. There has been speculation that they are linked to UFOs, secret military experiments, or recent mass bird deaths. A less frightening explanation is that the clouds are simply miniature snowstorms that occur in thin, subfreezing clouds when an airplane flies through them. u201d Read more about the phenomenon at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/110128-triple-hole-punch-clouds-haarp-conspiracy-science-second-coming-ufo/.
Uganda. Photo by Marc Hofen/AFP/Getty Images, New York Times. u201dMourners at the funeral of David Kato, an advocate of gay rights. Police said he was killed during a robbery, but human rights groups have blamed the Ugandan government for not cracking down of increasing violence against gay men and lesbians in the country.u201d
Underworld. Photos by Christoph Morlinghaus, Wired magazine, February 2011. u201dWikiLeaks spills other peoples' secrets, but where does it keep its own? In a former nuclear shelter beneath the streets of Stockholm that now looks like the set of a James Bond film. Morlinghaus's extraordinary photo essay about underground storage facilities confirms the generous suspicion that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.u201d
Underworld. Photos by Christoph Morlinghaus, Wired magazine, February 2011. u201dMorlinghaus also photographed the Corbis photo locker in an abandoned limestone mine in Pennsylvania. It's kept at 45 degrees Fahrenheit and 37-percent relative humidity to protect prints and negatives. After workers are done cataloging all 20 million photos in the collection, the site's temperature will be dropped to minus-4 degress Fahrenheit.u201d
Hollywood Then. Marlon Brando, 1951. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011
Hollywood Then. Lee Remick, 1960. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011
Hollywood Then. Marilyn Monroe, 1954. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011 u201dOne of the great Hollywood photographers, Sam Shaw, is featured in a portfolio from a new book, 'Sam Shaw: A Personal Point of View' by Lorie Karmath (from Hatje Cantz Verlag).u201d
Hollywood Then. Sam Shaw and Audrey Hepburn, 1957. The Photography of Sam Shaw, Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2011
Underworld. Photos by Christoph Morlinghaus, Wired magazine, February 2011. u201dA chapel built into the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland, where workers can pray before their shiftst.u201d
Undersea. Photo by David Doubilet, National Geographic, February 2011. u201dIMHO, after decades of strapping on air tanks, David Doubilet remains the master of underwater photography. He photographed the sunken remains of a U.S. Coast Guard in waters off Key Largo to show the rich collection of corral and sponges that grow when shipwrecks are turned into artificial reefs.u201d
Hollywood Now. Photo by Norman Jean Roy, Vanity Fair, March 2011. u201dIs this a sign of the times: The magazine said that for this year's annual Hollywood issue the editors went 'back to basics' and included no teenagers, no penguins, and no nudity on its cover.u201d
As the fight against Hosni Mubarak’s regime intensifies in Egypt, Yemenite voices are rising against Ali Abdallah – in 2011, Saleh will be celebrating 33 years of power. David Schonauer is also studying Odd Andersen’s deformations from Madrid, Christoph Molinghaus’ pictures featured in Wired magazine, Sam Shaw’s iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando as well as the latest cover of Vanity Fair by Norman Jean Roy.
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