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A knight and his steed—from the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards http://t.co/Y2kOVrsnLt pic.twitter.com/Vb0jzdYlZO
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 5, 2014
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A knight and his steed—from the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards http://t.co/Y2kOVrsnLt pic.twitter.com/Vb0jzdYlZO
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 5, 2014
Political disputes last month created a volatile situation in the young nation of South Sudan. Violence has spread killing more than 1,000 and has driven hundreds of thousand from their homes. Talks continue and UN peacekeepers were mobilized to try to stop the crisis from escalating further.Be sure to click through.
New PICCIE!!! @Rhianmarie pic.twitter.com/jQLs4LQBq7
— JD Anwar (@JDAnwar) December 16, 2013
Lightning strikes behind the London Eye, which is coloured red, white and blue to mark the #RoyalBaby's birth (PA) pic.twitter.com/p0EtptQcyA
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 23, 2013
Earth, as seen from 900 million miles away: http://t.co/s3hJRfLeCh pic.twitter.com/moEii9asnA via @deborahnetburn
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 23, 2013
Buzzfeed calls these photos of #NYC in the 70s "stunning". I say thank God for Reagan and the Republicans #tcot http://t.co/bsUzanJ5YZ
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 20, 2013
Much has been made, since the Boston Marathon bombings, of how social media have transformed policing and counterterror techniques. A less-remarked aspect of social networks is the way they have changed how individuals respond to disasters, whether man-made or natural. In particular, some who think nothing of snapping and instantly posting photos of themselves around the clock also have no compunction about snapping and instantly posting photos of the view outside their office windows or across the street during an attack or disaster. What they’re viewing and enabling others to view may be not only gruesome but also intensely personal—images of people gravely wounded or dying. Do people have the right to endure their suffering in private?Continue reading.
A decade ago, this problem didn’t exist. On September 11, digital cameras were still new, and uploading photos was cumbersome. Today, of course, everybody has a digital camera embedded in his phone, and it takes just seconds to send pictures around the world. Minutes after the Boston bombing, before cable news and newspapers had begun reporting it and before emergency responders had “cleared the scene,” as the euphemism goes, social-media users were already redistributing graphic photos of blood-soaked sidewalks still populated by victims with horrific injuries...
They’re one of the most documented bands ever, but once and a while we get to see them in a new light. Documentary filmmaker Leslie Woodhead uncovered these photos he took of the Fab Four back in 1964 when they were recording in Manchester. He tells the story of the photographs in an excerpt from his new book, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin.
At Paul Schmitt's backyard half-pipe, Costa Mesa, 1985. twitpic.com/cjegss
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 14, 2013
"Feel It Still"
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