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Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Issuance of Director's Decision, 61400-61401 [2013-24272]
Download as PDF 61400 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 192 / Thursday, October 3, 2013 / Notices (c)(4) of the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b, and in accordance with the February 15, 2012 determination of the Chairman. Additionally, discussion concerning purely personal information about individuals, such as personal biographical and salary data or medical information, may be conducted by the Council in closed session in accordance with subsection (c)(6) of 5 U.S.C. 552b. Any interested persons may attend, as observers, Council discussions and reviews that are open to the public. If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Office of Accessibility, National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506, 202/682– 5733, Voice/T.T.Y. 202/682–5496, at least seven (7) days prior to the meeting. Dated: September 30, 2013. Kathy Plowitz-Worden, Panel Coordinator, Office of Guidelines and Panel Operations. [FR Doc. 2013–24227 Filed 10–2–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7537–01–P NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee #13883; Notice of Meeting In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 463, as amended), the National Science Foundation announces the following Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (#13883) meeting: Date and Time: November 13, 2013, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., November 14, 2013, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Place: National Science Foundation, Room 555–II, Stafford II Building, 4221 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Type of Meeting: Open. Contact Person: Dr. Jim Ulvestad, Division Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences, Suite 1045, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: 703–292–7165. 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[FR Doc. 2013–24199 Filed 10–2–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2012–0186; Docket No. 50–293; License No. DPR–35] Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Issuance of Director's Decision Notice is hereby given that the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a Director's Decision on a petition filed by Pilgrim Watch (hereafter referred to as ''the petitioner''). The petition, dated July 19, 2010, as supplemented by letter dated August 6, 2010 (available as Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML102090024 and ML102210411, respectively), concerns the operation of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim), owned by Entergy Nuclear Generation Company and operated by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy, the licensee). The Petitioner requested that the NRC issue a Demand for Information requiring Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy or the Licensee) to demonstrate that all nonenvironmentally qualified (non-EQ) inaccessible cables at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim) are capable of performing their required function, be it safety or nonsafety-related. The Petitioner further requested that the NRC: (i) Certify that the location, age, and repair history of all cables (accessible and inaccessible) have been identified, (ii) ensure that the Licensee monitors all cables before continued operation to demonstrate that the cables can perform their design functions, and (iii) ensure that the Licensee incorporates in its monitoring program, at a minimum, recommendations from certain aging management guidelines and NRC generic guidance. The E:\FR\FM\03OCN1.SGM 03OCN1 tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 192 / Thursday, October 3, 2013 / Notices Petitioner also asked that the NRC commit to verifying, during the license renewal period, Entergy's implementation through routine baseline inspections and to a timely upgrade of the regulatory guidance for maintaining cable qualification and the verification that the cables can perform their design functions. As the basis of the request, the Petitioner asserted, in part, the following concerns: • The NRC regulations require that plant owners ensure that electrical wiring is qualified to perform in the environmental conditions experienced during normal operation and during accidents. Pilgrim has no program today, as required by NRC regulations, to ensure operability of the submerged and/or wetted wires. • Most electrical cables at Pilgrim have been exposed to significant moisture over the 40 years since their initial construction. The wires, and possibly the connections and splices inside conduits, are designed to operate properly only in a dry environment and are not designed to operate in a moist or wet environment. Thus, there is no assurance that these electrical cables will not fail if they are wet, submerged, or previously exposed to moisture. • Wires degrade with age, and the oldest wires are most susceptible to degradation. Pilgrim is one of the oldest operating commercial reactors in the country, and the majority of the conduits and wires at Pilgrim were installed during the initial construction. There are no existing methods to ensure operability, short of visual inspection or replacing cables with ones designed to operate in a wet or submerged environment. • As identified in several pertinent sections of Pilgrim's license renewal application and safety evaluation report, Pilgrim's aging management program, for the period 2012–2032, is insufficient and does not provide reasonable assurance to the public. The Petitioner further stated that compliance with the NRC's regulations is intended to provide reasonable assurance that an electrical wire failure will neither initiate an accident nor make an accident more severe. The Petitioner also noted that Pilgrim has a long history of cables being submerged and/or wetted with no verification of the long-term operability that provides reasonable assurance of continued operation of these cables. The NRC sent a copy of the proposed Director's Decision to the petitioner and the licensee for comment on March 20, 2013. The Petitioner and the licensee were asked to provide comments within 30 days on any part of the proposed VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:29 Oct 02, 2013 Jkt 232001 Director's Decision that was considered to be erroneous or any issues in the petition that were not addressed. Comments were received from the Petitioner and are addressed in an attachment to the final Director's Decision. The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation denied the petitioner's request to issue a Demand for Information to require Entergy to demonstrate that all inaccessible cables at Pilgrim are capable of performing their functions. The Office has also denied the Petitioner's request for the NRC to take certain actions to demonstrate that accessible and inaccessible cables can perform their design functions. These actions included requests for NRC to certify that (1) All cables have been identified as to their location, age, and repair history, (2) all cables are monitored by the Licensee prior to continued operation, and (3) the Licensee's monitoring program incorporates at a minimum, recommendations for certain aging management guidelines and NRC generic guidance. The NRC staff has determined that the Licensee's programs for cable condition monitoring and managing aging effects of inaccessible power cables have been adequately implemented, to the extent that there is reasonable assurance that cables subject to moisture will be adequately managed during the period of extended operation. The Director's Decision (DD–13–02) under part 2.206 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, ''Requests for Action under This Subpart,'' explains the reasons for this decision. The complete text is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML13255A189 for inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, Public File Area 01 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, and online in the NRC library at http://www.nrc.gov/ reading-rm.html. The NRC will file a copy of the Director's Decision with the Secretary of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance with 10 CFR 2.206. As a provision of this regulation, the Director's Decision will constitute the final action of the Commission 25 days after the date of the Decision unless the Commission, on its own motion, institutes a review of the Director's Decision in that time. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of September 2013. PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 61401 For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Eric J. Leeds, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2013–24272 Filed 10–2–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50–155; 72–43 and NRC–2013– 0218] Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Big Rock Point; Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Exemption; issuance. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an exemption in response to a request submitted by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (ENO) on June 20, 2012, for the Big Rock Point (BRP) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2013–0218 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access publicly-available information related to this action by the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2013–0218. Address question about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ''ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ''Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. • NRC's PDC: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1–F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\03OCN1.SGM 03OCN1
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[NRC-2012-0186; Docket No. 50-293; License No. DPR-35]
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station,
Issuance of Director's Decision
Notice is hereby given that the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a
Director's Decision on a petition filed by Pilgrim Watch (hereafter
referred to as ``the petitioner''). The petition, dated July 19, 2010,
as supplemented by letter dated August 6, 2010 (available as Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No.
ML102090024 and ML102210411, respectively), concerns the operation of
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim), owned by Entergy Nuclear
Generation Company and operated by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
(Entergy, the licensee).
The Petitioner requested that the NRC issue a Demand for
Information requiring Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy or the
Licensee) to demonstrate that all non-environmentally qualified (non-
EQ) inaccessible cables at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim) are
capable of performing their required function, be it safety or
nonsafety-related. The Petitioner further requested that the NRC: (i)
Certify that the location, age, and repair history of all cables
(accessible and inaccessible) have been identified, (ii) ensure that
the Licensee monitors all cables before continued operation to
demonstrate that the cables can perform their design functions, and
(iii) ensure that the Licensee incorporates in its monitoring program,
at a minimum, recommendations from certain aging management guidelines
and NRC generic guidance. The
[[Page 61401]]
Petitioner also asked that the NRC commit to verifying, during the
license renewal period, Entergy's implementation through routine
baseline inspections and to a timely upgrade of the regulatory guidance
for maintaining cable qualification and the verification that the
cables can perform their design functions.
As the basis of the request, the Petitioner asserted, in part, the
following concerns:
The NRC regulations require that plant owners ensure that
electrical wiring is qualified to perform in the environmental
conditions experienced during normal operation and during accidents.
Pilgrim has no program today, as required by NRC regulations, to ensure
operability of the submerged and/or wetted wires.
Most electrical cables at Pilgrim have been exposed to
significant moisture over the 40 years since their initial
construction. The wires, and possibly the connections and splices
inside conduits, are designed to operate properly only in a dry
environment and are not designed to operate in a moist or wet
environment. Thus, there is no assurance that these electrical cables
will not fail if they are wet, submerged, or previously exposed to
moisture.
Wires degrade with age, and the oldest wires are most
susceptible to degradation. Pilgrim is one of the oldest operating
commercial reactors in the country, and the majority of the conduits
and wires at Pilgrim were installed during the initial construction.
There are no existing methods to ensure operability, short of visual
inspection or replacing cables with ones designed to operate in a wet
or submerged environment.
As identified in several pertinent sections of Pilgrim's
license renewal application and safety evaluation report, Pilgrim's
aging management program, for the period 2012-2032, is insufficient and
does not provide reasonable assurance to the public. The Petitioner
further stated that compliance with the NRC's regulations is intended
to provide reasonable assurance that an electrical wire failure will
neither initiate an accident nor make an accident more severe. The
Petitioner also noted that Pilgrim has a long history of cables being
submerged and/or wetted with no verification of the long-term
operability that provides reasonable assurance of continued operation
of these cables.
The NRC sent a copy of the proposed Director's Decision to the
petitioner and the licensee for comment on March 20, 2013. The
Petitioner and the licensee were asked to provide comments within 30
days on any part of the proposed Director's Decision that was
considered to be erroneous or any issues in the petition that were not
addressed. Comments were received from the Petitioner and are addressed
in an attachment to the final Director's Decision.
The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation denied the
petitioner's request to issue a Demand for Information to require
Entergy to demonstrate that all inaccessible cables at Pilgrim are
capable of performing their functions. The Office has also denied the
Petitioner's request for the NRC to take certain actions to demonstrate
that accessible and inaccessible cables can perform their design
functions. These actions included requests for NRC to certify that (1)
All cables have been identified as to their location, age, and repair
history, (2) all cables are monitored by the Licensee prior to
continued operation, and (3) the Licensee's monitoring program
incorporates at a minimum, recommendations for certain aging management
guidelines and NRC generic guidance. The NRC staff has determined that
the Licensee's programs for cable condition monitoring and managing
aging effects of inaccessible power cables have been adequately
implemented, to the extent that there is reasonable assurance that
cables subject to moisture will be adequately managed during the period
of extended operation. The Director's Decision (DD-13-02) under part
2.206 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, ``Requests for
Action under This Subpart,'' explains the reasons for this decision.
The complete text is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML13255A189
for inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room located at One
White Flint North, Public File Area 01 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first
floor), Rockville, Maryland, and online in the NRC library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html.
The NRC will file a copy of the Director's Decision with the
Secretary of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance
with 10 CFR 2.206. As a provision of this regulation, the Director's
Decision will constitute the final action of the Commission 25 days
after the date of the Decision unless the Commission, on its own
motion, institutes a review of the Director's Decision in that time.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of September 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Eric J. Leeds,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2013-24272 Filed 10-2-13; 8:45 am]


The Odisha government would invest Rs 1133.34 crore for development of forest resources in the state in the next seven years involving over 7000 Van Samrakhyana Samitis (VSSs).
A decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting presided over by chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here today.
It was revealed in the meeting that out of a total of 12,503 VSSs in the state, 2426 VSSs have been engaged under Odisha Forest Sector Development Project (OFSDP), which has helped develop 2.23 lakh hectares of forests in the first phase. Another 3000 VSSs would be engaged under OFSDP in the second phase.
The meeting decided to engage the remaining 7077 VSSs under Ama Jangala Yojana for development of 3.5 lakh hectares of forest resources under 44 Forest divisions of the state.
For implementation of OFSDP, the state government would arrange funds to the tune of Rs 1133.34 crore from CAMPA, MGNREGA and NRLM.
Under the project, each VSS would either remain in charge of management of 50 hectares of natural forest or would be given responsibility for afforestation on 10 hectares of land.
While a target has been set to complete afforestation work by 2018-19, the newly created forests would be maintained till 2021-22.
A project monitoring committee would be formed for successful management of the project work. The committee would be led by the Development Commissioner as its chairman with principal secretaries of Forest and Environment and Panchayati Raj, and principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF) as other members and OFSDP director and PCCF (Project) as the convenor, official sources said.


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Adriana Priest was overheated. She was sweaty, her hair clung uncomfortably to her neck, and her armpits felt like swimming pools. She didn't smell wonderful.
Mosquitos from the dense woods that lined the heat-warbled sidewalk where she walked were beginning exploratory dive-runs at her baking flesh. The strap of her bag, even with its integrated cushion of memory foam, was gnawing into her shoulder. Her left knee ached from a tumble she took two days ago during a tourist run through the Willow Road Murder House.
Her left sock had worn through and her toes were rubbing against a seam in her boot.
Despite these troubles, Adriana was in a great mood.
Her phone rang. It was Claire Blackpool.
"OK, here's the thing," Adriana said.
By everyone, Claire meant the other members of their Shriexing clan, Team Mwerte: Sadie "Sad" Sandoval, Thea Torres, Lester Hoyle, and Charlie Tremble.
"Kay, I'll talk to you in a bit." She hung up.
The store was an ugly, grey rectangle with a black tar roof, nestled against the woods. Four milky windows stared blankly through cataracts of sun-bleached advertisements for Hollie Hobby dolls, collectable kitchenware, and hobby paint. A fourth sign proudly declared: Pet Rocks Sold Here!!
Adriana's boots crunched over gravel as she approached. The entrance door was flimsy glass, riddled with cracks and mummified with ages of disintegrating packing tape. Dozens of bits of paper, the torn corners of old paper flyers taped to the glass, obscured the view into the store. These were probably adverts once, for bake sales or free kittens, long since ripped away.
When she pushed the door open, a small bell on the other side tinkled weakly.
The shop was narrow and cramped with racks of clothing. On the far side of the room, a dirty glass display case was packed with crafts and supported a cash register that would have been quaint decades before Adriana was born. Near the register were shelves of collectible statues, doll house furniture, and old Christmas decorations. To the left, a stairway descended, thickly carpeted in alarming orange shag.
Adriana paused near the door. "Hello?" The room was empty, the register unmanned.
The place smelled old. Musty. She was reminded of a particular closet in her aunt's house, and the way the clothes inside seemed to wait, like strangers crouched in the dark, for her to open the door.
She turned her attention to the nearest clothing rack. The items there were tacky, worn, decades out of style. They smelled like her grandparents and of mothballs.
She didn't think she would find socks here or, if she did, that she would want to wear them.
A bead of sweat slid between her breasts, tickling. It was sweltering. Dust moats swam through the heavy air like particles of ash.
She approached the register, hoping for a bell. She didn't find one, but the display cabinet was full of small plastic statues of large-eyed urchins and weeping clowns, giant wooden spoons, and an owl made of brown yarn wrapped around nails driven into a block of wood.
Nothing. The price tags hanging off every tacky object were faded and peeling. The prices were a decade or more out of date.
She gathered a pinch of white hair from the left side of her head and tickled the ends against her lips. Something was out of whack here. It was a gut sense, nothing psychic. Something bad was down those stairs, she knew it. Common sense suggested that she should leave.
I should leave, she thought. Claire is going to kill me if I miss Charlie because I'm screwing around.
The problem with common sense was that it seldom aligned with her pathological need to collect ever-larger needles of fear, and then drive them directly into her nervous system. She was an adrenalin junkie, and she was overly-curious.
The path down the stairs was narrow, hemmed on both sides with pop culture refuse the shop owners had optimistically affixed with price tags: several yellowed Sillisculpts statues, a stuffed Kliban's Cat, an All in the Family board game, a box of pinback buttons with faded slogans (Keep on Truckin'! Have a Nice Day!). In places this stuff was piled in boxes two and three levels deep.
The stairway widened into a large landing, crusted with the same orange shag, spectacularly stained and matted, and cluttered with more boxes of flea market trash and stacks of old vinyl records. Several clothing racks were set againstg the dark wood paneled walls. The stairs continued on the other side of the landing.
To her right was a door; the room beyond was black. She fished in her bag until she found her flashlight.
The 800 lumens LED beam illuminated a room that seemed to belong to an old woman. A four-poster brass bed was neatly covered in a dingy quilt. A long dresser crouched in the shadows. Atop it lay an old-fashioned silver hand mirror, glinting next to a porcelain water pitcher. A nightgown and nightcap were spread across a worn recliner.
Why was this here? Adriana panned her beam around, settling on a framed oil portrait of a young and beautiful, but severe, woman wearing an old-world headdress. There was no door on the hinges. It made no sense to have a private room exposed so close to where customers presumably shopped. Was this the apartment of the owner's elderly mother?
Adriana sniffed. Musty air. The smell of an old woman. Pungent, but not the roil of sickness and rot in the nose and on the tongue that would suggest she had stumbled into a malignant haunt.
She clicked off her light. What she need to do was head up and wait for Charlie. Outside. But he was half an hour out. Standing around in the heat would be tedious, with the mystery at the bottom of these stairs nagging at her back.
She stood at the edge of the landing. The stairs went quite far. Oddly far. The light from the landing was lost halfway down.
But of course, she would.
Just a few steps. Maybe a few after that.
Just enough steps to get a hint of what was down there.
Her weight on the first step caused it to squeak and she held her breath. Nothing stirred in the shadows below.
She went slow. In places the steps seemed to tilt forward, and her boots threatened to slip on the shag. She thought of carnivorous plants she had read about, and the way they trapped insects with spines that pointed down toward the part of the plant flooded with digestive enzymes.
She was halfway down when she saw light: a room down below. She couldn't make out the details, but in the faint ambience she could see shadows moving. There were faint voices. She strained to hear.
"Hungry." An old woman's croak.
There was a third, hissing something incomprehensible in what sounded like a Slavic tongue. Three distinct voices. The cracked, hoarse words of ancient crones.
Well, here we go, she thought.
Normally her next step when discovering a new haunt would be to figure out how to hack it. Research, planning, a test run. Preparation could mean days with her nose planted in esoteric books or hovering over old maps.
She didn't have time for any of that. The others were already annoyed with her tardiness. At this moment Team Mwerte was supposed to be practicing a run on The Splatter Cave, a particularly dangerous malignant haunt, their first after the mid-summer season break. She had put her team behind schedule. And her fickleness had cost them a stringer in the form of the dearly departed Steve. She was sure they were pissed at her.
Charlie was probably going to grouse at her the entire car ride back.
She had to do the dumb stupid right thing, damn it.
She took care on the way up. The crones were hungry, after all. They said so. It wouldn't do to let them know she was here.
Back outside in the oppressive heat, she was five minutes down the sidewalk when Claire called.
Near the woods was an upright pile of clothes in the shape of a man. Pants twisted to form the legs. Balled-up sweaters made the torso. Coils of shirts made the arms. The head was a spiral of bras.
"Got to let you go for a minute," Adriana said.
"Why, what's going on?" Claire's voice was a squawk over the poor connection.
"Call you back in a bit." She hung up.
The clothes-man stood unmoving, regarding her. Or was it looking at the woods? It was hard to know. It didn't have a face.
It took a sharp step in her direction.
The clothes-man shuddered and collapsed in a pile of component apparel. The garments lay like an overturned hamper, then slithered into the woods and down a steep bank as if yanked by dozens of strands of invisible fishing line.
"Well, OK then," Adriana said.
"Oh… maybe." The woods were filling with a soft rumbling.
"I've— got to run. Literally!" She hung up and sprinted, just as a massive pile of outdated, moth-eaten clothes erupted from the woods. It reached the sidewalk in two ungainly bounds before splitting halfway through its bulk into a gaping maw, socks dangling down like teeth.
So, the shop did carry socks! Adriana thought.
The clothing mass paused a moment on the sweltering concrete, it's mouth-form opening and closing, searching for a scent. And then it caught Adriana's, leaping after her like a dog after a squirrel, undulating like a rolling wave.
Adriana knew she couldn't outrun the mass; it was coming too quickly. She veered off into the woods.
The mass followed, but Adriana was agile. Darting around trees and leaping dead falls, she outpaced the mass and re-emerged on the sidewalk in sight of the store.
"Gotta go!' She hung up. She could hear the mass sliding through the woods, over moss and logs, searching for her.
She ran to the glass door and opened it slowly, clasping the bell in her hand to prevent it from jingling. She was not surprised to find the clothing racks empty.
Three minutes. She fumbled with her phone to find the alarm app.
The mass came shuffling past the door. Adriana moved off to the side, out of view.
The mass circled past the door again. It paused there, long enough for Adriana to smell it, the musty stench of retirement home laundry, before moving on. She heard it slide around the corner, brushing against the outer wall as it went.
"Do you smell that, mother?" It was a voice deep below.
A third cackled something in the Slavic language Adriana didn't recognize.
Oh brother, Adriana thought. She checked her phone. Still one minute.
Footsteps thudded softly on the heavy carpet. Thump, thump.
Adriana positioned herself next to the door.
"Hungry," something said, nearing the top of the stairs.
Adriana's alarm beeped just as a head of scraggly white hair appeared in the stairwell. She opened the door and stepped into the outside heat, hoping she had the timing right.
Charlie was in the gravel parking lot in his four-door Jeep, honking the horn.
She threw herself into the passenger seat. "Hi. You might want to gun it." The clothing mass was erupting around the corner, it's gnashing laundry mouth pointed their way.
Charlie threw the Jeep into gear and pressed his foot down on the accelerator. The mass struck them on the side as they sped onto the road, knocking them into the opposite lane. Charlie righted the Jeep and accelerated again, leaving the raging mass of clothes behind. Adriana watched it shrink in her side mirror. Craven Road Clothing and Consignments faded into the distance with it.
He kept his eyes fixed on the road and didn't reply.


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The Salt Lake City Maw Firm P.C. recently launched a website to make it easier than ever to connect with an experienced bankruptcy lawyer or get answers to basic legal questions.
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The Salt Lake City, Utah Maw Firm P.C. recently launched their website, providing a valuable online legal resource to current and potential clients.
The site offers helpful information to remove some of the fear and uncertainty from the legal process, including basic information on Salt Lake City bankruptcy.
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Your favorite 90's drink is back in fountain drink form!
SURGE made the announcement today that it will now be available at all Burger King locations that have a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine. Those giant red boxes that make you push 3 buttons, and even though you wanted Sprite, you still get a little bit of what the person before you got. You know. THOSE machines.
But who cares about that because SURGE IS BACK.
Since the 90s I've only been able to find these at specialty stores. But lately it's been making a resurgence. I'm seeing them more and more at stores and gas stations.
And now it's at Burger King!


China is preparing for an economic war with the US. The question is who is going to blink? President Trump is not the blinking type.
Dr. Gina has the psychology of business, and I can talk to you about the legal strategy. There are significant legal countermeasures that President Trump can take if China decides to retaliate against Boeing or any of the other US companies that are selling products into China. There's a pending US intellectual property investigation going on right now. China's investments in the United States could be restricted by US regulators. Their access to US capital markets could be restricted.
This is not the only thing that President Trump can do in terms of the tariffs. There are other additional measures that can be taken by the US.
President Trump is not going to blink on this.
On Fox Business, I joined Fox News political contributor Tammy Bruce, Donald J. Trump for President advisory board member Dr. Gina Loudon, and Capital Wave forecast editor Shah Gilani on the possibility of a trade war between the U.S. and China.
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The Astrolabe Project is working with CyVerse cyberinfrastructure to provide an easy-to-use, reliable and long-lived environment for processing, storage and visualization of valuable scientific data that are not managed as part of existing missions and trusted repositories. Particular emphasis is given to individual researchers and research groups with older, orphaned datasets that can add context to new research enterprises.
NSF SI2-SSE: Visualizing Astronomy Repository Data using WorldWide Telescope Software Systems. NSF OAC 1642446. October 2016 – September 2019.
University of Arizona - Research, Discovery & Innovation, Accelerate for Success. January 2016 – December 2016.
University of Arizona - Office for Research & Discovery, Start for Success. July 2015.
Gretchen Stahlman, "Discovering Data Hidden in the Scholarly Literature", Invited Research Talk, Rutgers School of Communication and Information, New Brunswick, NJ, November 29, 2018.
Gretchen Stahlman, "Text mining for the dark data hidden in astronomical literature", Computational Social Science Mini-Conference, October 26, 2018, Tucson, Arizona.
Gretchen Stahlman, "Identifying and curating astronomical "dark data" through development of cyberinfrastructure resources", Library and Information Services in Astronomy VIII (LISA VIII), June 7-9, 2017, Strasbourg, France.


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What to do Today: See 'Arrows of Love' by Quentin Blake
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Stuck on what to do today? Let us help you. This Tuesday 20 February, we recommend that you keep the Valentine's Day spirit alive and see 'Arrows of Love' by Quentin Blake at the House of Illustration…
If you often find yourself stuck for ideas of what to do, we've come to the rescue with our brand new 'What To Do Today' feature. We handpick the best of what's on in London and the country right now, whether a new restaurant, must-see show, exhibition ending soon or a pop-up that you must, ahem, pop in to. Check back every day for inspiration…
House of Illustration Presents 'Arrows of Love' by Quentin Blake
The C&TH Guide to the Biggest Exhibitions of 2018
Quentin Blake's rarely-seen nude drawings went on display this past week at the House of Illustration. The verve and charisma, which he routinely captures in his individual subjects, make the characters in these sketches unmistakable creations of his. Arrows of Love includes 18 pencil drawings, depicting women embracing – or avoiding – Cupid's arrow. Quentin Blake's own reflections on the joy, folly and sorrow of love are at the forefront of these drawings, and not without his signature stroke of good-natured humour.
14 of the Best Current Exhibitions in London
Sir Quentin Blake is the English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer, most likely, best known for illustrating books written by Roald Dahl. His books have won numerous prizes and awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award and the international Bologna Ragazzi Prize. He won the 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the highest international recognition given to creators of children's books.
Adult ticket with gift aid £8.25; Until 29 Apr 2018, 10:00am – 6:00pm; House of Illustration, 2 Granary Square, London, N1C 4BH
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Google Announces A Major Penguin Change: Rolling Updates
September 24, 2016 by Andrew Riedel
The seemingly-endless dry stretch in the history of Google's Penguin algorithm has just come to an end. Major revisions to Penguin were announced on 23rd September 2016, and it looks like this may be the biggest news since the algorithm was first introduced in 2012.
The History Of Penguin
Google has been involved in an unending battle to improve its search results and purge irrelevant or manipulative links from the results page for a long time. Up until 2012, the assumption was that bad links – those which associated a site with known spam sites – were thrown away when Google assessed a page's relevance. The Penguin algorithm, introduced in April of 2012, proved that assumption to be false. Not only did Google penalise sites that featured bad links, it would start doing so automatically with the new algorithm.
This sent shock waves throughout the world of online marketing. The initial Penguin deployment affected roughly three percent of Google searches run in English, and its impact in some other languages was even higher. Sites that received a site-wide penalty thanks to Penguin found themselves effectively tipped into a black hole.
Frustration For Marketers
Initially, marketers who were unfairly impacted by the algorithm held out some hope for Penguin adjustments to ease their pain. There were two significant updates to the algorithm before the end of 2012, but this was a pattern that would not go on indefinitely.
2013 saw a pair of Penguin updates in May and October. In 2014 there was just one (Penguin 3.0), announced on 17th October. Since then, Google has been largely silent on the subject of this most contentious algorithm. Marketers eventually deduced that a major part of Penguin was link ratios – bad links could be outweighed by enough good links – but they still had to wait on Penguin updates to see the core data used by the algorithm change. Penguin 3.0 was also frustrating due to its incredibly lengthy roll-out. Google spokespeople confirmed that it took more than two months to bring the algorithm fully online.
Penguin 4.0: What's New
According to Google's latest announcement, that's all over with. (https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/09/penguin-is-now-part-of-our-core.html) After 700 days since last Penguin news, the search engine has announced a major overhaul. For one thing, it claims that Penguin is "now a part of [Google's] core algorithm." What does that mean for webmasters and marketers?
The most important effects were spelled out in Google's blog post. As a core algorithm, Penguin is going to be updated in real time from now on. That means that catching a Penguin penalty will no longer be the kiss of death for a commercial website.
According to Google's initial announcement, future changes to Penguin's data will take effect far more rapidly than ever before. They appear to be aiming for immediate changes every time a page is re-indexed. That means that ranking changes caused by Penguin can, at least in theory, be fixed rapidly when they're noticed.
One undeniably positive effect this is going to have is a big hit on some of the techniques used for negative SEO. Because older versions of Penguin were so ironclad, it was possible to use them offensively. By setting up the right kind of spammy links, a black hat marketer could actually drive down the ranking of a targeted page. This practice should be far less effective with the new rolling Penguin.
The possible downside to this continuous updating is that Google is no longer going to feel any need to announce or explain future Penguin changes. Other algorithm changes intended for similar purposes may also fly "under the radar" in the future.
More Granularity – Meaning What?
The other welcome bit of news in the announcement of Penguin 4.0 is that it's becoming more granular. Marketers and website owners are still unpacking exactly what that means, but the hope is that the algorithm will now assign either partial penalties or individual penalties only when it finds bad links. That means single pages might be flagged and pushed down the results page without affecting the site as a whole.
Of course, it wouldn't be an algorithm change without a little frustrating ambiguity. Early reactions to Google's announcement have concentrated on exactly what "granularity" means in this context. The first supplementary information coming from Google indicates that while it operates at a more detailed level than site-wide, that doesn't necessarily mean it operates entirely page-by-page. It will take time and first-hand experience to work out exactly how precise this new Penguin can be.
A Google algorithm change can be traumatic for marketers. The announcement of Penguin 4.0 looks exceptional in that it contains almost entirely positive news from the marketers' point of view. Still, industry experts will be vigilant in the coming months looking for real-world examples of how this update changes page ranking.
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The Continental Literary Magazine is a quarterly English-language literary magazine launched by the Petőfi Cultural Agency. The magazine focuses on the literature of Central Europe with the aim of creating a platform for contemporary Hungarian and Central European fiction writers to stake out their place in the English-reading world and, in particular, the North American literary market.
Alongside English translations of works by some of the most promising budding writers from Central Europe, the magazine will also include works by authors of fiction from the region who have already achieved world renown and established themselves as major writers in English translation. The English translations of works written in the languages of the region are done by a team of experienced translators who work in close collaboration with the authors. The magazine thus will help foster an engaging transatlantic discourse which will help Central Europe occupy a prominent place on the stage of contemporary world literature.
The Continental Literary Magazine, which will offer readers a rich array of articles and writings on various themes from issue to issue, is expected to have a circulation of around 3,500 copies in the United States. Some of these issues will be targeted at literary opinion makers and people who play active roles in defining and redefining the canon, while the rest will be available in major bookstores in the United States and Central Europe.
The magazine aspires to emerge as a familiar and influential player alongside traditional and established American literary magazines with familiar names and a large subscriber base, such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Nonconformist, and The Atlantic.
The copyright to all contents of this site is held either by The Continental Review or by the individual authors, and none of the material may be used elsewhere without written permission. For reprint enquiries, contact us.
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Best Tips for Bakery Packaging ideas. Stopping by the bakery for a dozen pastries three times a week isn't unusual for many people. Picking up baked goods for book meetings, parent meetings, and gift baskets is part of the daily routine. Sometimes though, it's nice to have a unique presentation when you arrive with some tasty pastries. It's never a bad idea to take some time to rewrap the baked goods before bringing them to a meeting or dropping them off as a gift. Below are 4 Best Tips for Bakery Packaging ideas. Best Tips for Valentine's day gift Packaging ideas.
This method is a favorite for many. Nestling individually wrapped treats among colorful tissue paper and paper flowers always makes for a delicate and beautiful presentation. Put each danish or scone into a clear cello bag and seal it before putting it into the basket. You can also add ornaments after you wrap the basket in cellophane. Decorate with flowers, birds, or bows from Paper Mart, a paper supply store. Usually you can reserve gift baskets for actual gifts and use other presentation methods for meetings or bake sales.
Since lots of bakeries use boring boxes to package their goods, sometimes it's fun to make your own box or bag when bringing pastries with you. With cupcakes, especially, you can get creative. Make a little individual box for each cupcake. To avoid too much work, get a printable stencil that can be folded into a premade design and then print it on colorful construction paper. It's also great to include themes for the boxes like American flag colored 4th of July cupcake boxes, flower shaped Easter boxes, or heart shaped Valentine's day boxes. By far the easiest self made package is putting a cupcake into a simple, small plastic cup and wrapping it in a patterned cello bag decorated with a bow.
While many baked goods are hard to stack because of various toppings, cookies are one of the easiest baked goods to package. Buy a few dozen cookies and place them in different sized, glass mason jars. Then, instead of sealing the jar with a lid, cover it with some fun printed fabric or tissue paper and tie a ribbon around the mouth to keep it in place. For smaller cookies like macaroons, reuse egg cartons by adding tissue paper, placing the cookies into the holes, and wrapping them in cello bags. Unfortunately, this method only looks good with cardboard egg cartons.


Men found him attractive, interesting even. He was like a fascinating experiment gone wrong that men liked to investigate. He"d get a date – or two, if he was lucky – but it wasn"t long before Brian"s darkness showed, and the men were running from him.
Brian King was honorably discharged from the United States Navy five years ago. He"d left with the highest honors a man can receive in his country, but he"d paid the ultimate price to earn them. He was considered one of the best; an Intelligence Officer in a Joint Special Operations Delta team that"d been a twelve-man wrecking crew. They"d thought they were invincible" until they weren"t. Brian was the only member that survived the ambush. He survived ten months of pain, of torture, only to emerge on the other side a warrior. A POW survivor. He"d returned home with all his limbs, his right mind, and with his only brother Ford, at his side. But, one thing had been lost, maybe for good" his voice.
Now, being a bounty hunter is Brian"s only means to satisfy his need to calculate, track, and capture. His only outlet to the stress caused by his silence. He was good at what he did. But, all work and no play for a forty-four year old man was taking its toll. Brian wasn"t a faulty experiment. He missed companionship, he missed communicating. So, when he met Sway Hamilton " in the most unconventional means " he"d been surprised at his special way of understanding Brian"s every look" and touch.
Sway grew up in the rough part of ATL, trailing behind his twin brother Stanton and his best friend, Dana. He and his brother had a bond only twins could understand. So when Stanton"s life was taken during their sophomore year in college, Sway didn"t think he"d ever recover. He finally finished school, got his masters in nursing, worked hard, and focused on taking care of his mother. However, Sway knew there was more to life than heartache, and caring for others. There had to be. But he didn"t know what any of those things were until he met a dark hunter that blew his mind" and the intense man had never uttered a single word.
Brian and Sway can feel the powerful connection between them. It was there from the start"but both of them have battled with loss and anguish for so long, neither understand that love can ease all of it. Do they have the courage to battle through it together" Sway has to learn to trust in love, and Brian has to believe that Sway will always understand him even if he never speaks again.
Sway held him tight around his neck, "I don"t need you to talk Brian. I can hear you just fine," Sway whispered softly, kissing his throat.
Brian could feel the moment the man in his arms panicked. He"d revealed too much too soon, and now he was about to run. If Brian could"ve only told him he"d said the exact thing Brian had been thinking but couldn"t say. Brian pulled out his cell phone to open his text to voice app. He had to tell him.
"I"m gonna go to the restroom and clean up. I"ll" I"ll be right back," he spoke hurriedly and took off into the sea of bodies and strobe lights.
Brian finished righting his clothes. His guy was running, and Brian was going to run after him. As soon as he left his corner and his eyes adjusted to the strobe-lighting in the packed warehouse, Brian saw the flashlights first before he heard the harsh commands of authoritative voices. Great. The police. He hurried in the direction he was sure his date had gone. He was glad he was tall, he"d be able see over most of the frantic people that flittered about in various stages of undress as they scurried for any exit not blocked by police in raid gear.
He wasn"t concerned about the police. Even if he was arrested, Vaughan would get him out before they could process him all the way. The man was a brilliant lawyer. Brian found the door marked Men"s Room and burst inside to warn his guy that they had to leave, but to his dismay, no one was there. He was gone.
Commotion and chaos went on just outside the door, but he was oblivious. Brian stared at the empty stalls, refusing to believe that he"d taken a risk for nothing. He"d opened up to a stranger. Let him touch his ailment, his weakness. Refused to hide. Why wasn"t his angel there like he said he"d be" Brian walked past each open stall just to be sure. When he got to the last door, he knew he wouldn"t find him in there but his heart still sank when he pushed the door open to find it empty. Wincing, Brian realized he was squeezing the hell out of his phone. He looked at the screen, the app still up and waiting for him to type what he needed to say. Too late. There was no one there for him to talk to. Not now, maybe not ever. He"d run away from Brian" like they all did. They were scared of him. Scared of his silence" and so was he.
The air was brisk for a January night. Street lights barely worked in this neighborhood, which was an optimal setup for hunters like him. Brian stealthily eased his tall frame back into the shadows on the side of the house while his team got into position. Duke"s Bail Bonds and Recoveries had the best fugitive recovery team on the east coast, hell could"ve been the best in the country. They"d outsourced to taking private contracts, hiring Duke and his squad of trackers to recover for other bond companies whose clients chose to skip court and jump bail.
Brian liked working for Duke. It satisfied his need to track, investigate" be useful. Like he"d been in the Special Forces. Duke was a solid guy. He ran a tough ship, but he was fair and they"d established a solid brotherhood.
Brian pressed his body against the crumbling vinyl siding, his heavy boots sinking into the soft earth as he made himself invisible. His job was to listen, survey, observe, and he was damn good at it. He"d been watching the small single-family home on Pavilion Street for almost two weeks straight. He didn"t mind all the extra hours, or the overtime pay. There wasn"t anything else in his life more important. He was one of the only hunters left on their team who had no partner. No significant other. Nothing at home waiting for him except lots of empty rooms, a bare fridge and an even emptier bed. So, he didn"t mind covering the grunt work. Besides his older brother, Ford, there wasn"t a better profiler than him.
"The back is all clear."
Brian heard his brother"s deep voice in his ear right before the Alpha team sounded off that they were "a go" too. The next sound Brian registered was Duke"s right-hand man, Quick, kicking in the front door while his brother and his partner Dana stormed in through the rear. The explosion of the door frame, coupled with a stun grenade thrown into the open space just past the door tried to yank him back to a real battle zone" the war zone. He blinked past the horrific images that flashed before him like the opening sequence of a Marvel movie. So many of them trying to bombard him. He wouldn"t let his mind take him there, he still had a small amount of control over it. Instead, he gritted his teeth and listened through the coms for background noise. There was a lot to decode. Men"s curses, women"s screams and his team"s angrily barked commands.


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In 2012, he started studying Musicology (Bachelor's Degree) in Cremona and decided to continue to study piano at the Institute of Higher Musical Studies in Cremona. He graduated in Musicology in September 2016 and now he is attending a Master's Degree in Science of Music and Performing Arts in Milan.
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const testVersion = 2

const (
	questionResponse string = "Sure."
	yellResponse     string = "Whoa, chill out!"
	nothingResponse  string = "Fine. Be that way!"
	otherResponse    string = "Whatever."
)

//Hey responds just like a lackadaisical teenager would do.
func Hey(input string) string {
	questionRegex := regexp.MustCompile("\\?[[:space:]\\p{Zs}]*$")
	yellRegex := regexp.MustCompile("(^\\P{Ll}*\\p{Lu}+\\P{Ll}*$)")
	nothingRegex := regexp.MustCompile("^[[:space:]\\p{Zs}]*$")

	inputArray := []byte(input)
	switch {
	case yellRegex.Match(inputArray):
		return yellResponse
	case questionRegex.Match(inputArray):
		return questionResponse
	case nothingRegex.Match(inputArray):
		return nothingResponse
	default:
		return otherResponse
	}
}

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Throughout the history of this country we have had a roller coaster of a ride but the trend was always upward. Across the peaks and valleys of progress each generation somehow managed to do a bit better than the preceding one until now. The following clip is from the AARP Bulletin, March 2017.
Whether we can attribute this to Globalism or automation or a combination of the two, this is a disturbing trend.
Just a few days ago I heard an economist on talk radio discussing the need to tax industrial robots at the income rate of the humans they replaced. That way the government could maintain status quo without worrying about those pesky unemployed folks.
I don't have the answers but I do want my kids to do better than me in the game of life. It's time to recognize that this wage reversal is a serious problem and needs to be addressed, not merely recognized as existing.
If it's any consolation, I was 22 in 1989. I made minimum wage and lived mostly on Spaghettios. So if you use me as the sample of 1989 young adults, the kids these days aren't doing so badly.
Thanks for your comment, It's all so relative but there are plenty of examples of living the not so rosy life, even from my era. As a young enlisted person with a wife and lacking the pay grade for the military to transport her, or house us on separate rations, I had to take an advance in pay to bring her to Europe. There was no one for her to stay with in the US and she didn't have the maturity or temperament to make it on her own. Long story, not a happy ending.
I was NPD (no pay due) for six months and had to pull my regular duty and then sack groceries at the commissary for tips in order to make living expenses.
The problem with the downward pressure on wages is that there has been no matching downward pressure on prices.


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Turn cranberries into chemistry, engage in fruitcake physics, and find out what happens to whipped cream when it's dropped in liquid nitrogen. Bring the family and kick off the holiday season with extraordinary demos and festive arts and crafts.
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KeyLab Essential brings an efficient approach to music making: providing immediate access to the top 20% of features musicians use 80% of the time. It offers advanced control of the most popular DAWs, as well as deep seamless integration with Analog Lab 2. Add a bunch of clever features such as chord play or key transpose and you'll have the most enjoyable keyboard controller on the market.


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13 Groundbreaking Women Photographers
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Oscar Graubner, Margaret Bourke-White making a precarious photo from the Chrysler Building, 1934. Twitter. Detail.
Quickly, how many women photographers can you name? Unfortunately probably not as many as their male counterparts. We are here to change that! Women cover topics from fashion photography to photojournalism in times of war. They created sensitive and creative images worthy of praise and recognition. Some of them were interested in accurately documenting reality, while others photographed with their hearts, driven by artistic expression and the need for intimacy. They led captivating lives full of adventure and passion. Here are some of the greatest, groundbreaking women photographers of all time.
The first women photographers
Women photographers at war
1. Julia Margaret Cameron – It Started with a Gift
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a British photographer considered one the most important portraitists of the 19th century.
Women photographers: Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, Julia Margaret Cameron, 1870, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY, USA.
She started her journey in photography relatively late in life, at the age of 48, after receiving a camera as a gift from one of her children. Cameron established herself in the Isle of Wight where she created the portraits of several notable figures, such as the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and the philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Actually, many of them were her neighbors! Nonetheless, she was also interested in photographing her family, servants, and the locals.
Cameron is famous for her ethereal, sensitive portraits that adopted religious, historical, and allegorical themes often met in literature, mythology, and Christianity. Many times she asked her subjects to dress as historical or Biblical figures (children were usually dressed as angels). Cameron used a soft focus and long exposure to obtain the dream-like effect characteristic of her work. As it happens, the Pre-Raphaelites liked her more than the other Victorian photographers.
Julia Margaret Cameron, Charles Darwin, 1868, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Julia Margaret Cameron, Mary Mother, 1867. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Julia Margaret Cameron, I Wait, 1872. Coupe-File Art.
Cameron established herself in the Isle of Wight where she created the portraits of several notable figures, such as the naturalist Charles Darwin.
Mary Mother
Cameron is famous for her ethereal, sensitive portraits that adopted religious, historical, and allegorical themes often met in literature, mythology, and Christianity.
I Wait
Many times she asked her subjects to dress as historical or Biblical figures (children were usually dressed as angels)
2. Imogen Cunningham – Attention to Detail
Famous for her nudes, botanical photographs, and industrial landscapes, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was one of the American women photographers. In her work, she is preoccupied with attention to detail and the contrast between light and shadow.
Women photographers: Imogen Cunningham, Self Portrait, 1932. AWARE.
Cunningham studied chemistry in the US and fine arts in Germany before she returned to Seattle, US. Moving to San Francisco, she worked with photographers like Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) and Edward Weston (1889-1958). Cunningham explored many techniques in the photographic medium, including double exposure and montage printing. Her evocative images that capture succulent botanical still lives share certain similarities to Georgia's O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) paintings. Cunningham's pictures were so highly detailed that many scientists used them for their studies. In the 1920s, she spent two years diligently studying the magnolia flower.
Cunningham was a member of the notable Group f/64, created in 1932 by an association of Californian photographers. They promoted a new direction in photography that focused on sharp and clear images, opposite to Pictorialism.
In the 1940s, Cunningham developed a passion for street photography and was offered a position in the department of art photography at the California School of Fine Arts by her friend, American photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984).
Imogen Cunningham, Magnolia Blossom, 1925, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Imogen Cunningham, Boy Selling Newspapers, c. 1950. Artist's website.
Imogen Cunningham, Frida Rivera, 1931, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Cunningham explored many techniques in the photographic medium, including double exposure and montage printing. Her evocative images that capture succulent botanical still lives share certain similarities to Georgia's O'Keeffe's paintings.
In the 1920s, she spent two years diligently studying the magnolia flower.
Boy Selling Newspapers
In the 1940s, Cunningham developed a passion for street photography and was offered a position in the department of art photography at the California School of Fine Arts by her friend, American photographer Ansel Adams.
Frida Rivera
Cunningham even photographed one of the most well-known Mexican painters Frida Kahlo.
3. Claude Cahun – Under This Mask, Is Another Mask
Famous for compelling self-portraits, Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was a French Surrealist photographer, writer, and sculptor. The nonconformist photographers often addressed through their art issues concerning self-identity, gender, and the subconscious mind.
Women photographers: Claude Cahun, Self-portrait, 1927. Culture Gouv Fr.
Born Lucy Schowb to a prominent Jewish family, Cahun adopted their gender-neutral pseudonym in her early adulthood. They settled in Paris together with her lover – and step-sister – French artist Marcel Moore (1892-1972). There Cahun collaborated with famous names in the Surrealist art scene, such as one of the founders of the movement, André Breton (1896-1966).
The couple moved to Jersey in 1937, near the coast of France. Here, the artist worked actively as an activist and propagandist but had very little contact with the outside world. During World War II, Cahun and Moore designed anti-German fliers containing criticism of the crimes of Nazism. They placed the pamphlets strategically at German events organized on their island, where the soldiers could easily find them. In 1944, both women were imprisoned and sentenced to death while most of their work was destroyed. Fortunately, the island was liberated by the Allies a year later and they managed to escape their sentence.
Cahun used techniques of doubling and reflection in their work. In most of the self-portraits, Cahun calls into question the standards of beauty and gender by posing with a shaved head, staring unapologetically, directly into the camera. Cahun's epicene appearance transpires through their work, generally regarded as an intimate form of expression. Several principal motifs emerge in the artist's photographs, such as hair, hands, and later, organic elements. This goes unrecognized most of the time but Cahun and Moore collaborated frequently on their projects.
Claude Cahun, I Extend My Arms, 1931-1932, Tate Modern, London, UK.
Claude Cahun, Self-portrait from Le Mystere d'Adam, 1929, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Claude Cahun, Que me veux-tu? [What do you want from me?], 1928, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France.
I Extend My Arms
Several principal motifs emerge in the artist's photographs, such as hair, hands, and later, organic elements.
Self-portrait from Le Mystere d'Adam
Cahun calls into question the standards of beauty and gender by posing with a shaved head, staring unapologetically, directly into the camera.
Que me veux-tu? [What do you want from me?]
Cahun used techniques of doubling and reflection in their work.
4. Dorothea Lange – Documenting the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is considered to be among the most significant documentary women photographers and photojournalists of the 20th century. She is best known for her work during the Great Depression (1929-1933), which stressed the importance of the social consequences of the economic crisis.
Women photographers: Dorothea Lang. Washington County Cultural Society.
Lange started as a portrait photographer in San Francisco. By the 1930s, she developed an interest in documenting rural California, the Southwest, and the South, for the Resettlement Administration in the US (created during the Depression-era to raise awareness about the struggling farmers).
Her photograph of 32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson with her children, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), was widely circulated in magazines and newspapers, becoming an icon of the period. The photographer used to portray the plight of her subjects in an emotive light.
In 1941 Lange was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for photography. A year later, mid-World War II, the US Office of War Information, a propaganda agency, assigned her to photograph and document the internment of Japanese Americans. She created pictures that condemned the US authorities for the unfair conditions the migrants were exposed to. The photographs were thus impounded by the government during the war.
Towards the end of her life, Lange traveled with her husband to Asia and took photographs for LIFE magazine in the US and Europe.
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Dorothea Lange, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center, 1942. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Dorothea Lange, Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco pledge allegiance to the American flag, 1942. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Migrant Mother
Her photograph of 32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson with her children, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), was widely circulated in magazines and newspapers, becoming an icon of the period.
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center
In 1941 Lange was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for photography. A year later, mid-World War II, the US Office of War Information, a propaganda agency, assigned her to photograph and document the internment of Japanese Americans.
Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco pledge allegiance to the American flag
She created pictures that condemned the US authorities for the unfair conditions the migrants were exposed to.
5. Tina Modotti – In Love with Mexico
Another protagonist of women photographers: Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was an Italian-born photographer, model, actor, and political activist. Preferring high-quality images and impressive close-ups, she wasn't afraid to experiment with different techniques in her work.
Women photographers: Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Glendale, 1921. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
After emigrating to the US, in 1923 Modotti moved with her lover, photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), to Mexico City. There she opened a studio and joined the Communist Party. Speaking of which, she was romantically involved with some of its leaders!
Modotti worked on capturing the city and its people in all their splendor. She took the portraits of many notable figures, including the Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Her photographs bring attention to the working class and Indigenous culture. Seven years later, Modotti was exiled from Mexico for her left-leaning political beliefs.
Modotti eventually joined the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow and gave up photography altogether in 1931. Unlike other artists, she was more concerned with her political struggle, which ultimately prevailed over her artistic interests.
Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas, Mexico, Reinhard Schultz's Bilderwelt Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Tina Modotti, Worker's parade, 1926, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Tina Modotti, Workers' Parade (Woman from Tehuantepec), 1926, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas
She took the portraits of many notable figures, including the Mexican artist Diego Rivera and Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo
Worker's parade
Seven years after coming, Modotti was exiled from Mexico for her left-leaning political beliefs.
Workers' Parade (Woman from Tehuantepec)
Her photographs bring attention to the working class and Indigenous culture.
6. Germaine Krull – Big Appetite for Controversy
Born in Wilda-Poznań, East Prussia, Germaine Krull (1897-1985) was a Dutch Avant-Garde photographer, a pioneer in photojournalism, and a political activist.
Women photographers: Germaine Krull, Autoportrait, Paris, 1927, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
In 1928, the French VU magazine hired Krull. She collaborated with contemporaries like André Kertész (1894-1985) and Eli Lotar (1905-1969) in creating a more intimate form of reportage, defined by powerful close-ups. During this period, she developed her published books and solo portfolios, including the Études de nu (1930) and the Metal (1928) collection, compiling various mighty iron objects, such as railways, the Eiffel Tower, and power generators. Three years later, Krull developed the first photo novel together with the Belgian writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989), titled La Folle d'Itteville (1931).
Additionally, she experimented with double exposure and photomontage. She was also part of the Neues Sehen or Neue Optik (New Vision) photography, a different direction in photography based on discovering the possibilities of unconventional techniques in the medium.
In 1941, Krull joined the Free France cause. After the end of World War II, she moved to Southeast Asia and became the director of Oriental Hotel Bangkok. Eventually, she converted to Buddhism and lived a secluded life among Tibetan monks in India.
Germaine Krull, Untitled, 1926-1928, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Germaine Krull, Pol Rab (illustrator), 1930, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Germaine Krull, The Eiffel Tower, ca. 1928, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA.
View of Paris through a metal construction
Krull published books and solo portfolios, including compiling various mighty iron objects, such as railways, the Eiffel Tower, and power generators.
Pol Rab
She experimented with double exposure and photomontage.
This is one of the close-ups of the Eiffel Tower that Krull captured.
7. Ilse Bing – Queen of the Leica
Ilse Bing (1899-1998) was born in Frankfurt, Germany. She started as a photojournalist for a German magazine and, in 1930, moved to Paris to concentrate full-time on photography after giving up her studies in Art History. Read the story of the next representative of women photographers.
Women photographers: Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait in Mirrors, 1931, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Bing focused on her career as a freelancer for publications such as Le monde illustre, Vogue, VU, and the American Harper's Bazaar. Nevertheless, besides her commercial work, she established herself as an avant-gardist, and was heavily influenced by the Bauhaus style, which directed her towards modernist photography.
Incidentally, her camera was a 35mm hand-held Leica camera. Thus, within a few years, Bing earned her reputation as the "Queen of the Leica."
When World War II broke out, as Jews, Bing and her husband were sent to separate internment camps in the south of France. They rejoined in Marseilles and, with the help of a fashion editor from the US that Bing collaborated with, the couple was able to leave Europe in 1941 for New York City. Some of her most important prints were lost because she couldn't afford the customs duty for all of them when they finally arrived from France. She returned to Paris a couple of times after the war but decided to end her work as a photographer and dedicated herself to poetry, line drawings, and collages.
Bing oftentimes chose urban subjects, capturing them at vertiginous angles. She always developed the negatives herself and worked without additional lighting. All her photographs convey an intuitive and spontaneous dynamism. Bing favored simplicity and worked graciously with light and shadow in various enticing environments, representative of the cities and era she lived in. Even though her work was influenced by the leading artistic voices of her time, she brought many innovations to the photography sphere, being among the first to use techniques such as solarization, electronic flash, or taking nighttime photographs. Her work was present at many significant exhibitions of the 20th century, including MoMA's first survey exhibition of photography, Photography 1839–1937.
Ilse Bing, Shoes for Harper's Bazaar, 1935, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Ilse Bing,Three Men Sitting on the Steps by the Seine, 1931, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Ilse Bing, Balayeur, 1947, © Courtesy the Estate of Ilse Bing / Courtesy Collection Karsten and Claudia Greve.
Shoes for Harper's Bazaar
Bing focused on her career as a freelancer for publications such as Le monde illustre, Vogue, VU, and the American Harper's Bazaar.
Three Men Sitting on the Steps by the Seine
Bing oftentimes chose urban subjects, capturing them at vertiginous angles. She always developed the negatives herself and worked without additional lighting.
Balayeur
All her photographs convey an intuitive and spontaneous dynamism. Bing favored simplicity and worked graciously with light and shadow in various enticing environments, representative of the cities and era she lived in.
8. Margaret Bourke-White – Some Pictures Are Worth More Than a Thousand Words
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was the first female American photojournalist. She traveled around the world and immortalized some of the biggest and most important historical events of her time.
Women photographers: Oscar Graubner, Margaret Bourke-White making a precarious photo from the Chrysler Building, 1934. Twitter.
Bourke-White opened her first studio in Cleveland, OH, where she experimented with industrial photography. In 1929, Bourke-White was hired for Fortune as their first staff photographer. Working there, she was allowed to document the Soviet industry.
Moreover, like her contemporaries, she created work regarding the human side of the Great Depression. Some of it made it into the book You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), with text by the novelist Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). At the time, LIFE magazine was only being conceived – and, of course, she was offered a position among the first four photographers hired. She covered the Korean War (1950-1953) for the publication.
In 1941, Bourke-White was the only Western photographer in Moscow to photograph Josef Stalin (1878-1953), leader of the Communist Party, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. A year later, she witnessed the Air Corps bombing missions. At the end of the war, assisting Gen. S. Patton (1885-1945) of the US forces, she covered the liberation of the Erla and Buchenwald concentration camps in Germany.
However, she did not stop there. Bourke-White traveled to Asia to record the Partition of India, photographing Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948).
Bourke-White is one of the most accomplished and outstanding photojournalists, being in the right place at the right time, all the time!
Margaret Bourke-White, A view of an airplane flying over Manhattan, 1939. Holden Lutz Gallery.
Margaret White-Bourke, Two fliers of the 8th Bomber Command clad in high altitude flying clothes, 1942. Google Arts & Culture.
Margaret Bourke-White, Mohandas Gandhi reads as he sits cross-legged on the floor next to a spinning wheel at home, 1946. Life Magazine.
A view of an airplane flying over Manhattan
She became the first woman to be the offcial photographer for Life magazine. In order to get this extraordinary shot Bourke-White flew in a smaller plane above this one.
Two fliers of the 8th Bomber Command clad in high altitude flying clothes
White-Bourke witnessed the Air Corps bombing missions.
Mohandas Gandhi reads as he sits cross-legged on the floor next to a spinning wheel at home
Bourke-White traveled to Asia to record the Partition of India, photographing Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi.
9. Lee Miller – From Fashion Covers to the Battlefield
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller (1907-1977) was an American model and one of the women photographers, recognized for her work at Vogue and during World War II.
Women photographers: Lee Miller, Self Portrait, 1932, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
In the 1920s, Miller achieved a successful career as a model in New York City, before moving to Paris where she became Man Ray's (1890-1976) assistant, muse, and lover. Soon, she would open her own studio and collaborate with Ray on his projects. Being exposed to Surrealism, Miller embraced many of her lover's methods, such as solarization (the effect of tone reversal in photographs).
Miller returned to New York City in 1932 and opened her second studio, earning a living from advertising photography and portraits. She contributed to Vogue, both as a model and a photographer.
In the following years, Miller traveled across Europe and lived in Cairo and London. As a war correspondent, she photographed field hospitals in Normandy, the Liberation of Paris, the death camps of Dachau and Buchenwald, and even Hitler's apartment in Munich.
After the war, Miller suffered from depressive episodes and was diagnosed with PTSD. In 1947, she married her second husband, British Surrealist painter Roland Penrose (1900-1984). Miller helped him write biographies on Man Ray and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), one of her friends. Incidentally, during the 1940s and 1950s, MI5 investigated her for being a Soviet spy.
Lee Miller, Nude Bent Forward, 1930, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Lee Miller, Irmgard Seefried, Opera Singer, Singing An Aria from Madame Butterfly, 1945. Lee Miller Archives.
David E. Scherman, Lee Miller in Hitler's Apartment, 1945. Le Temps.
Nude Bent Forward
In Paris she became Man Ray's assistant, muse, and lover. Soon, she would open her own studio and collaborate with Ray on his projects.
Irmgard Seefried, Opera Singer, Singing An Aria from Madame Butterfly
Lee Miller in Hitler's Apartment
As a war correspondent, she photographed field hospitals in Normandy, the Liberation of Paris, the death camps of Dachau and Buchenwald, and even Hitler's apartment in Munich.
10. Diane Arbus – Appreciation of the Different
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was one of the women photographers born in the US, known for her black-and-white portraits and pictures of New York City with its unique citizens.
Women photographers: Diane Arbus, Self-Portrait, c. 1968. The Times.
Arbus was born into a wealthy family that allowed her to develop her artistic talents, shielded from the impacts of the Great Depression. Together with her husband, actor Allan Arbus (1918-2013), she worked in fashion and advertising photography for magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
By the 1950s, Arbus decided to focus on her own projects. She subsequently took her camera around the streets of New York City to capture the intimate lives of its people in various locations, such as bars, hotels, or even the morgue!
Typically, Arbus rarely cropped her photographs; thus leaving some irregular borders surrounding the pictures. She allowed her subjects to be themselves in front of her medium-format camera, admiring their sincerity and confidence. Arbus was featured at MoMA together with other famous artists of her time in the influential exhibition New Documents (1967). At the age of 48, after dealing with depression throughout her life, she committed suicide.
Diane Arbus, Three Female Impersonators, 1962, Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Diane Arbus, The queen and king of seniors citizens' dance, N.Y.C., 1970, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, Nj, 1967. Art Basel.
Three Female Impersonators
The queen and king of seniors citizens' dance, N.Y.C.
Arbus was known for her black-and-white portraits and pictures of New York City with its unique citizens.
Identical Twins
This is probably the most iconic photo by Arbus. It shows identical twins that she encountered in a Christmas party.
11. Vivian Maier – Nanny with a Secret
Believed to be only a nanny for almost 40 years, Vivian Maier (1926-2009) was in fact one of the greatest American street photographers. Her work, consisting of over 150,000 images produced during her lifetime, was discovered at an auction in 2007.
Women photographers: Vivian Maier, Self-Portrait, 1953. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY.
Maier was fascinated by the architecture and people of the cities she spent her time in. She is most famous for her pictures of the streets of New York City and Chicago. Sometimes compared to Diane Arbus for her spontaneity, Maier took photographs of the seemingly most banal subjects and transformed them into artworks, compelling moments stopped forever in time.
John Maloof, Ron Slattery, and Randy Prow acquired some of Maier's photographs in 2007. Many of her negatives were never developed. In 2009, Maloof shared Maier's images in one of his blog posts, and soon after her work gained a reputation at art museums all over the world.
Currently, Maier's story is presented in the documentary Finding Vivian Maier (2013). Also, at the Chicago History Museum, you can see her work in the multimedia exhibition Vivian Maier: In Color until May 8, 2023.
Vivian Maier, Chicago, 1979. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY.
Vivian Maier, New York. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY.
Vivian Maier, September, 1956. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY.
Maier is most famous for pictures of the streets of New York City and Chicago
Maier was fascinated by the architecture and people of the cities she spent her time in.
Maier took photographs of the seemingly most banal subjects and transformed them into artworks, compelling moments stopped forever in time.
12. Nan Goldin – Slice of Life
Nan Goldin (1953-present) is one of contemporary American women photographers, acclaimed for her intimate, authentic photographs documenting her life and her dear ones. In her work she tackles sensitive issues of our times, such as the opioids epidemic, the HIV crisis, and the LGBTQ+ community.
Women photographers: Nan Goldin, Nan one month after being battered, 1984, Tate Modern, London, UK.
In her late teens, Goldin moved to Boston to live with her friend David Armstrong (1954-2014), an American photographer. There she experienced the gay and transgender community of the city. In her photographs, she is heavily influenced by Diane Arbus who adopted similar motifs and themes. Goldin used to take her camera everywhere with her and captured the so-called "slices of life" and underground culture.
In Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1980-1986), a 40-minute slideshow of 700 photographs set up on a musical background, Goldin encapsulated her life in the 1980s in New York City. The timeless, deeply personal record preserves her friends and lovers, many of whom were taken away by the AIDS crisis.
Her photographs are enticing, challenging, and raw. Goldin doesn't shy away from the hard truths of life but faces them courageously by exposing the vulnerability that lies behind the acts of love, violence, and hardship she chooses to capture.
A few years ago, Goldin admitted she was recovering from an opioid addiction after being prescribed OxyContin for wrist pain. In 2019, she organized a series of global protests at art museums against the Sackler family, associated with Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of the opioid OxyContin.
Nan Goldin, Rise and Monty Kissing, New York City, 1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Nan Goldin, Nan and Brian in Bed, New York City, 1983, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Nan Goldin, Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC, 1991, Tate Modern, London, UK.
Rise and Monty Kissing
Goldin encapsulated her life in the 1980s in New York City. The timeless, deeply personal record preserves her friends and lovers, many of whom were taken away by the AIDS crisis.
Nan and Brian in Bed
Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi
Goldin used to take her camera everywhere with her and captured the so-called "slices of life" and underground culture.
13. Annie Leibovitz – Portraits of the People We All Know
Annie Leibovitz (1949-present) is a contemporary American photographer, best known for her portraits of celebrities. Her work includes some of the most iconic photos of many famous figures.
Women photographers: Annie Leibovitz, Self Portrait. The Eye of Photography.
Leibovitz attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she realized she wants to become a photographer. Her career started in 1970 when she became the photographer for Rolling Stones magazine. During her 10 years there, she took one of her most famous photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono only a few hours before Lennon was murdered.
What is interesting is she said she'd take her top off and I said, "Leave everything on"—not really preconceiving the picture at all. Then he curled up next to her and it was very, very strong. You couldn't help but feel that he was cold and he looked like he was clinging on to her. I think it was amazing to look at the first Polaroid and they were both very excited. John said, "You've captured our relationship exactly. Promise me it'll be on the cover." I looked him in the eye and we shook on it.
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After leaving Rolling Stones, Leibovitz started working in Vanity Fair from 1983. Since then her career has been thriving. She was the first woman portraitist to have her solo exhibition at the National Gallery in London. She creates incredible campaigns and photoshoots up to this day.
Annie Leibovitz, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1980. Apprendre.
Annie Leibovitz, Leonardo di Caprio with a Swan, 1997. SCV.
Annie Leibovitz, Mick Jagger, 1995, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
During her 10 years in Rolling Stones, she took one of her most famous photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono only a few hours before Lennon was murdered.
Leonardo di Caprio with a Swan
The photo was taken for the 1997 edition of Vanity Fair.
Leibovitz says this is her favorite photo of Mick Jagger.
These women photographers shaped the medium as we see it today, leaving their mark on the world. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy to mention that this list doesn't include all the talented women photographers that should receive recognition as well for their efforts, such as Francesca Woodman, Helen Levitt, Tsuneko Sasamoto, Gerda Taro, Berenice Abbott, Homai Vyarawalla, and Lola Álvarez Bravo.
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I had some more of the cut off Maple that I used for the other shoulder plane, which was essentially a copy of a molding plane converted to a shoulder plane. This time, I wanted to build a proper wooden shoulder plane. I looked at a few pictures on the Internet and went to work. The blade is a replacement blade for the wooden shoulder plane sold by Lee Valley. I bought a few of them as they were quite an expensive and I would like to make molding planes out of them. Simple things first. So, for the most part, the shavings come out appropriately, but it does jam occasionally. I suspect I could probably make the opening bigger.
Really nice work, Todd. Let's see some shavings and it at work, even with a clog if it happens; please.
Off to work (night shift), will try to post it working tomorrow.
This is a nice shop-made tool and you really did a fine job on this.
When leaning one way or the other, or cutting with part of the blade, there is no issue. When cutting a through dado, it tends to accordion on itself. Otherwise, the shavings come off nicely one side or the other.
Granted, that was a scrap piece of pine and not anything hard.