DIG DEEPER
Official artist site/portfolio of Peter Tsai
Mike Boehmer's Flickr site
Why they do it: Chicago magazine's history of dying the river green
More stories by Behind the Lens editor Mike Starling
Kudos to Chicago photographer Peter Tsai, who posted this timelapse video of the St. Paddy's weekend greening of the Chicago River to his YouTube account. I'm posting it here so you don't have to read all the predictably moronic comments. Also, you can see me walk across the Columbus Avenue bridge if you look REAL close. And, just cuz I like it, here's a cool shot of the annual ritual taken by Chicago photographer Mike Boehmer in 2009. (This image is posted under a Wiki Commons creative commons license.)
DIG DEEPER Official artist site/portfolio of Peter Tsai Mike Boehmer's Flickr site Why they do it: Chicago magazine's history of dying the river green More stories by Behind the Lens editor Mike Starling "She was just a badass. There's no other way to describe it." So says Maya Benton, who curated the Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist exhibit for the International Center of Photography. The traveling show is on display at the Illinois Holocaust Museum until June 1. Still an active writer at age 102, Gruber was – at age 23 – the first foreign journalist to travel to the Soviet Arctic and Siberian Gulag, and later brought worldwide attention to the plight of Holocaust survivors by documenting the voyage of Exodus 1947, a ship carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine. She also traveled to the pre-statehood Alaska Territory in 1941 to document the conditions there for FDR.
"She believed if she could tell stories, that would affect people and make them advocate for change," Benton says. "She understood the power of the right story and the right photo and her ability to choose the image to make people do something." DIG DEEPER See a few of Gruber's best-known images and watch a TV interview with Ann Curry at the NBC Photoblog Listen to an NPR interview of Gruber at age 100 by Karen Michel Aimee Levitt tells "a few more tales from the amazing life of Ruth Gerber" for the Chicago Reader More stories and interviews by Behind the Lens editor Mike Starling |
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