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Jacobsen, Paulo

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Nikolai, Carsten

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Provost, James

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Ulrich, Brian

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Yamasaki, Minoru

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Zuckerman, Andrew

Feb
21st

“Los Angeles, Portrait of a City” (2009), book with over 500 images visually documenting the history of Los Angeles. Slideshow provided by TIME magazine.

Feb
11th

While many U.S. cities worry that their economies are deteriorating to the level of the 1930s Great Depression, New York City fears reliving a more recent decade that features strongly in city lore.

— Reuters about a return of the 1970s

Jan
19th

“Roadside America” (2010), new photographic book by John Margolies

Jan
15th

“Monsters and Marilyns” (2009), flickr set by Artist Jesse Lenz

Nov
2nd

Trailer for the documentary “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” (2008)

Sep
7th

United Nations Headquarters (1950, New York City) by Architect Wallace Harrison

My late life was ruined […] by the German Bauhaus and its groups of friends who have had a disastrous effect on American architecture.

— Wallace Harrison

“The U.N. Building” (2009), the Photography of Ben Murphy, available as book

Aug
31st

Disneyland in 1956 (a year after the opening) from Jeff Altman, filmed by his grandfather on a Bell & Howell Filmo using 16mm Kodachrome film stock, 2K transfer.

Aug
26th

The Kennedy brothers Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) and Edward “Ted” Kennedy (1932 – 2009) in Palm Beach, Florida, 1957