TOP 100 PHOTOGRAPHY SITES
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| China's Wang Xin/Chen Ruolin win synchro platform diving gold &$ &$Chinese Wang Xin/Chen Ruolin won the women's 10-meter synchronized platform diving gold medal with 363.54 points at the Olympic Games in "Water Cube" - the National Aquatics Center, in Beijing, on Aug 12. Australia's Briony Cole/Melissa Wu claimed the silver with 335.16 points and Mexico's Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz got the bronze with 330.06.&$&$&$ english.people.com.cn |
Who Said Print Was Dead? “STAR SOCIETY,” BY WILLY RIZZO (1994) This coffee-table book devoted to the work of the glamorati photographer Willy Rizzo has “amazing portraits from the ’60s to the ’80s,” Hall says, including oft-overlooked shots of Yves Saint Laurent and Guy Bourdin. $100. nytimes.com |
Julius Shulman, Photographer of Modernist California Architecture, Dies at 98 Mr. Shulman’s photographs depicted modern houses as the ultimate expressions of modern living and helped idealize the California lifestyle in the postwar years. nytimes.com |
At Venice Festival, a 1959 Masterpiece Takes Center Stage Mario Monicelli's "La grande guerra,'' which won a Golden Lion in 1959, upstaged Giuseppe Tornatore's "Baaria," the opening in-competition film at the Venice Film Festival. nytimes.com |
Secret Corps of Filmmakers Documented Nuclear Bomb Tests A secret corps of moviemakers risked their lives to make 6,500 films documenting the power of atomic bombs. nytimes.com |