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Décès du photographe Phil Stern, 95 ans, ce samedi 13 décembre 2014.
Photographer Phil Stern, who was responsible for some of the most iconic portraits of Hollywood stars including Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Frank Sinatra, has died at the age of 95.
Stern, who also photographed John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and President Kennedy’s inauguration, passed away in California on Saturday, his agent confirmed.
On Sunday afternoon, he uploaded another photo of himself posing with the photographer on his 90th birthday. Despite looking frail and being hooked to tubes, Stern was seen beaming widely.
During his career, 'Snapdragon' Stern worked as a special still cameraman on an array of films, including 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', Variety reported.
He also become renowned for his photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger in the 'Darby's Rangers' unit in the North African and Italian campaigns during World War II.
He was later decorated with a Purple Heart for his services. Ater the war, Stern settled in Los Angeles, where he became a staff photographer for LOOK magazine.
Over the past few decades, his photos of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean have gained iconic status, while he has also photographed Louis Armstrong, Orson Welles and Joan Crawford.
He even contributed photos for albums by artists Liza Minnelli, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie.
For the final years of his life, Stern resided at the Veterans Home of California, where he continued to wear a camera around his neck and take photographs of those around him.
In a touching tribute, Stern's worldwide agent, Geoff Katz, of Creative Photographers Inc, described the photographer as a 'one-of-a-kind' talent who lived a 'full and exciting life'.
Stern's sons, Peter and Tom, have donated 95 prints from their father's work (WW2, Jazz and Hollywood) to the the West Los Angeles VA Hospital as a permanent exhibition.
The photographer's autobiography, 'Phil Stern: A Life’s Work', was published in October 2003.
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A permanent exposition to narrate the pastoral world of yesterday and today.
The life of the shepherd is hard! His hard life made of misery, hunger, loneliness and sacrifice has been celebrated by many Sardinian poets and writers who regularly showed not only these tragic aspects but also the richness, authenticity and versatility of this figure, a central element of Sardinian culture for generations.
The community of Fonni is one of the Sardinian places where the presence of the shepherd has always been very strong and deeply rooted. The only way to revive this figure, to represent it in its natural essence was to "show it" through a museum and to define clearly and precisely its importance within the Sardinian society.
An ancient manor house in the historic center of the village, with a traditional interior and a cobbled porch, is the ideal place able to speak about the world of the Sardinian shepherd; a place where even the female figure carves out an important space.
The rooms are spread over three floors, which identify the main conceptual sections of the museum project. Each expositive hall has been set up according to the specific characteristics and display requirements and faithfully reproduces the figures that gravitate within the shepherd society in general, and specifically Barbagian.
After a first section reserved to the nomadic shepherd life, you access the first floor, where an entire room is dedicated to the female figure. The role of women was fundamental in the household because she looked after the children when her husband was away during the cold season, to winter with his flock in the warmer lowlands, and she had to bake bread and to look alone after the family.
Very interesting are the rooms where are placed the objects for spinning and weaving and the hall of festivities, probably the most fascinating of the museum, which houses the traditional Carnival masks and the traditional dresses of Fonni and it is enhanced by the presence of a beautiful co'one 'e frores, a sumptuous ceremonial bread packed every year for St. John's festival.
It stands out among other things, a beautiful painting by Giuseppe Biasi dating back to 1920.
At the top floor of the building there is the room dedicated more specifically to the figure of the shepherd.
Here there is an extensive exhibition of the tools used by the shepherd, the typical objects of his daily work, but the emphasis is also on its places of life, the difficulties and pitfalls of this profession, on transhumance, revenges and solidarity among shepherds.
Finally, you pass in the restricted area dedicated at the modern figure of the shepherd, where are deal the today's challenges of sheep farming and are explained, through the aid of films and projections, which way will take this activity over the coming years.
The Museum of the culture of the herding of Fonni is a place of memories, where the intent to reconstruct an identity masterfully reaches its goal, where membership of a community is a distinctive sign and it is found everywhere and where the revival of hardness of this lifestyle is accentuated by the existence of objects that seem to keep still intact their primordial function.
Images of a living past reemerge from the lines of tools, in the purity of the faces captured in the many old pictures and in the integrity of the environment.
Today, the chariot wheels were replaced by the roar of the engines of off-road and many things have changed over the years, but the figure of the shepherd, even with a thousand inevitable transformations, still survives. Therefore it resists even this immense cultural heritage, made of pristine and remote snapshots and, despite all the pitfalls, (both technological and globalizing), the Sardinians still held tightly the figure of the shepherd, as a reference point and as an ideal of the strongest elements of identity.
Hours: daily, including holidays, from 10.30 to 13.00 and from 15.00 to 17.30 (closed on Mondays, except by reservation for groups over 15 people and schools).
Ticket: € 4.50 (full price) € 3.00 (reduced for students and groups over 15 persons) € 8.00 (cumulative with museum and archaeological sites of Madau and Gremanu).
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We do not have the conventional church-led college ministry, as more than half of our congregation is made up of college students.
We strongly recommend college students getting involved on campus while rooting themselves in the local church community. So we offer college Microchurches to plug into, and then we point people to campus groups with whom we have a relationship. We especially love these groups: Chi Alpha, Cru, Doulos, Navigators, FCA, and Intervarsity.
At the same time, we feel like the church should offer what a campus group cannot: intergenerational relationships and discipleship. For that reason, many of our Microchurches are open to people of all ages, from college students to married couples to retired men and women.
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