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Photographers Who Developed a Personal Visual Language
Photographers Who Developed a Personal Visual Language
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Eugène Atget and Zanele Muholi
Some photographers are recognisable from any frame of their work: the way they use light, where they stand, what they wait for and what they leave out. This list follows those photographers across...
Arts & Design
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Street Photographers Every Beginner Should Study
Street Photographers Every Beginner Should Study
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Mary Ellen Mark
Each photographer here earned a place in two ways: by teaching one habit a beginner can carry straight into the street, whether that is timing, building a layered frame, handling color or finding...
Arts & Design
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Contemporary African and Diaspora Artists Shaping Global Art
Contemporary African and Diaspora Artists Shaping Global Art
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Zanele Muholi
A guide to living artists born in Africa or raised in its diaspora whose work since the 1990s has changed what museums, biennials and collectors pay attention to. Each one earned a place through a...
Arts & Design
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Key Episodes of the French Revolution
Key Episodes of the French Revolution
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
Start with the meeting Louis XVI called at Versailles and follow the changes in who could make decisions for France. The story runs from the new assembly and the fall of the Bastille through war...
History
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Milestone Missions of the Space Race
Milestone Missions of the Space Race
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
Follow the U.S. and Soviet missions that took spaceflight from the first satellite to a shared docking in orbit. In launch order, probes and crewed flights show how engineers learned to photograph...
History
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History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A midwife’s diary, a miller’s testimony, and a family’s embroidered sack each preserve a different part of the past. These books start with people whose lives rarely made it into official...
Books
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Historical Figures Whose Reputations Scholars Reexamined
Historical Figures Whose Reputations Scholars Reexamined
by curious_compiler  • 
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A play, a hostile account, or a label can outlast the evidence it was based on. These cases follow what changed when historians, archaeologists, or curators read a different record, from an...
History
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People Who Built Archives That Still Matter
People Who Built Archives That Still Matter
by curious_compiler  • 
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A book in a basement, a diary hidden in a milk can, and a song recorded on a lacquer disc can all become evidence. These people helped build collections around records that were being discarded...
History
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History Creators Who Tell Stories About Everyday Life
History Creators Who Tell Stories About Everyday Life
by curious_compiler  • 
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An old recipe can tell you who had time to cook. A coat can tell you who made it and who could afford it. These historians, presenters, and video creators use ordinary things to bring past lives...
Celebrities
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Historical Figures Known for Their Diaries
Historical Figures Known for Their Diaries
by curious_compiler  • 
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A diary lets you follow what a person thought worth writing down before they knew what would happen next. These writers left records of work, reading, war, and family life. Start with Martha...
History
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Oral Historians Who Preserved Overlooked Voices
Oral Historians Who Preserved Overlooked Voices
by curious_compiler  • 
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Official records mostly capture the powerful. Oral historians set out to record everyone else: street sellers, farm labourers, formerly enslaved people, soldiers in the ranks, women caught up in...
People
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Famous Architects Photographed With Their Buildings
Famous Architects Photographed With Their Buildings
by curious_compiler  • 
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These portraits put architects beside the work that made their names, from drawings and scale models to construction sites and finished rooms. A model shows how a design fits together. A person...
People
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Famous Inventors Photographed With Their Inventions
Famous Inventors Photographed With Their Inventions
by curious_compiler  • 
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These archival photos show inventors with the machines and objects they helped make possible. Look closely at the hardware, from the cylinders and cranks of early sound recording to the test...
People
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Archaeologists Who Changed How Excavations Work
Archaeologists Who Changed How Excavations Work
by curious_compiler  • 
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A good excavation leaves a record that other people can question after the digging is over. These archaeologists changed what teams recorded, how they interpreted a site, and who could take part...
History
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People Who Changed the History of Maps
People Who Changed the History of Maps
by curious_compiler  • 
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Maps record what someone wanted to know about the world and what they had the means to measure. Follow the people who drew them to see how coastlines, ocean depths, household wages, and disease...
History
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