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In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not."In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with Replica Van Cleef & Arpels necklace the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not." ()Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, a navigator who on Aug. 6, 1945, guided the Enola Gay over Hiroshima to drop the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare, died Monday at an assisted living facility in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was 93.The last surviving member of the Enola Gay's 12 member crew, Van Kirk died of age related causes, said his son Tom.A veteran of 58 World War II combat missions over Europe and Africa, Van Kirk was told that he had been chosen for a top secret bombing mission that could help end World War II. The payload was never specified.Boarding the stripped down B 29 on the island of Tinian in the northern Marianas, Van Kirk and his crewmates flew some 1,700 miles to Japan. They dropped a bomb code named Little Boy, which took 43 seconds to detonate, generating a burst of heat estimated at 50 million degrees. local time, Little Boy ushered in the dawn of the atomic age, destroying most of Hiroshima in a blinding flash. A poisonous mushroom cloud rose more than 50,000 feet.Van Kirk, who looked down at the city for a jarring moment and saw what he later likened to a pot of boiling tar, had just one thought at the time, he said in numerous interviews: "The war's over."The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.See more videos"Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not," he told the Sunday Mirror, a British newspaper, in 2010. "I have never apologized for what we did to Hiroshima and I never will."In succeeding generations, the question of nuclear weapons was anything but simple. Hiroshima, with at least 80,000 of its residents killed instantly and more contaminated by nuclear fallout, became a symbol. In 1995, anti nuclear demonstrators poured blood and ashes over a piece of the Enola Gay on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air Replica Van Cleef and Arpels necklace and Space Museum. Veterans groups, on the other hand, complained that the display, with its graphic depictions, was too sympathetic toward Japan and made short shrift of the Americans who would have died had the war continued. On Aug. 15, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.Van Kirk was frequently asked whether he and the Enola Gay's other crew members experienced any physical or emotional damage from the bombing."We did not suffer any effects from radiation, and none of us, I will add, had any psychological effects," he told NPR on the bombing's 60th anniversary in 2005. "None Van Cleef and Arpels White necklace fake of us went crazy. None of us went into monasteries and everything else that a lot of people say we did."Born Feb. 27, 1921, in Northumberland, Pa., Van Kirk grew up on a farm. In October 1941, he enlisted as an Army aviator but washed out as a pilot. As a navigator, however, he flew many missions out of England and shuttled Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to North Africa. When he was teaching in New Orleans, his old friend, Paul Tibbets, who was then a lieutenant colonel, called to ask him if he'd like to be part of a secret mission.Tibbets, who remained one of Van Kirk's lifelong friends, became the Enola Gay's commander.The crew trained for months in Wendover, Utah. Among other maneuvers, they practiced the sharp turns they'd have to make to escape the bomb's shock waves. Scientists said they'd need to be 11 miles from the blast to avoid being shaken apart. As it was they experienced what Van Kirk later described as "a hell of a jolt."On Aug. 5, 1945, the crew was staged on Tinian. Van Kirk, Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee played poker that night."How else are you going to spend your time after they tell you you're going to be dropping the first atomic bomb?" Van Kirk once asked a reporter.After their mission, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and other honors.As a civilian, he received a degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and spent 35 years working for DuPont. In California, he made his home in the Marin County community of Novato.Van Kirk didn't talk much about Hiroshima until anniversaries started becoming major media events, his son said."He thought he did his duty," his son said. "Given the circumstances the country found itself in, with an enemy showing no desire to not continue to engage in war, with invasion imminent, he felt it was exactly the kind of thing this country should have done." In his later years, Van Kirk delivered that message to schools, veterans groups and history conclaves.
In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not."In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with Replica Van Cleef & Arpels necklace the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not." ()Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, a navigator who on Aug. 6, 1945, guided the Enola Gay over Hiroshima to drop the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare, died Monday at an assisted living facility in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was 93.The last surviving member of the Enola Gay's 12 member crew, Van Kirk died of age related causes, said his son Tom.A veteran of 58 World War II combat missions over Europe and Africa, Van Kirk was told that he had been chosen for a top secret bombing mission that could help end World War II. The payload was never specified.Boarding the stripped down B 29 on the island of Tinian in the northern Marianas, Van Kirk and his crewmates flew some 1,700 miles to Japan. They dropped a bomb code named Little Boy, which took 43 seconds to detonate, generating a burst of heat estimated at 50 million degrees. local time, Little Boy ushered in the dawn of the atomic age, destroying most of Hiroshima in a blinding flash. A poisonous mushroom cloud rose more than 50,000 feet.Van Kirk, who looked down at the city for a jarring moment and saw what he later likened to a pot of boiling tar, had just one thought at the time, he said in numerous interviews: "The war's over."The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.See more videos"Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not," he told the Sunday Mirror, a British newspaper, in 2010. "I have never apologized for what we did to Hiroshima and I never will."In succeeding generations, the question of nuclear weapons was anything but simple. Hiroshima, with at least 80,000 of its residents killed instantly and more contaminated by nuclear fallout, became a symbol. In 1995, anti nuclear demonstrators poured blood and ashes over a piece of the Enola Gay on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air Replica Van Cleef and Arpels necklace and Space Museum. Veterans groups, on the other hand, complained that the display, with its graphic depictions, was too sympathetic toward Japan and made short shrift of the Americans who would have died had the war continued. On Aug. 15, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.Van Kirk was frequently asked whether he and the Enola Gay's other crew members experienced any physical or emotional damage from the bombing."We did not suffer any effects from radiation, and none of us, I will add, had any psychological effects," he told NPR on the bombing's 60th anniversary in 2005. "None Van Cleef and Arpels White necklace fake of us went crazy. None of us went into monasteries and everything else that a lot of people say we did."Born Feb. 27, 1921, in Northumberland, Pa., Van Kirk grew up on a farm. In October 1941, he enlisted as an Army aviator but washed out as a pilot. As a navigator, however, he flew many missions out of England and shuttled Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to North Africa. When he was teaching in New Orleans, his old friend, Paul Tibbets, who was then a lieutenant colonel, called to ask him if he'd like to be part of a secret mission.Tibbets, who remained one of Van Kirk's lifelong friends, became the Enola Gay's commander.The crew trained for months in Wendover, Utah. Among other maneuvers, they practiced the sharp turns they'd have to make to escape the bomb's shock waves. Scientists said they'd need to be 11 miles from the blast to avoid being shaken apart. As it was they experienced what Van Kirk later described as "a hell of a jolt."On Aug. 5, 1945, the crew was staged on Tinian. Van Kirk, Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee played poker that night."How else are you going to spend your time after they tell you you're going to be dropping the first atomic bomb?" Van Kirk once asked a reporter.After their mission, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and other honors.As a civilian, he received a degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and spent 35 years working for DuPont. In California, he made his home in the Marin County community of Novato.Van Kirk didn't talk much about Hiroshima until anniversaries started becoming major media events, his son said."He thought he did his duty," his son said. "Given the circumstances the country found itself in, with an enemy showing no desire to not continue to engage in war, with invasion imminent, he felt it was exactly the kind of thing this country should have done." In his later years, Van Kirk delivered that message to schools, veterans groups and history conclaves.
Olympic imitation cartier love ring flame greeted with enthusiasm across Montreal
The Olympic experience continued across the island on Thursday with the relay running through municipalities including Dollard des Ormeaux, Kirkland, Pointe Claire and Hampstead, before swinging north of the mountain and finishing in Old Montreal.
The torch was carried to Place Jacques Cartier in the evening, where there was a celebration featuring Quebec entertainer Gregory Charles.
"We just want to show our support for our Olympic athletes, and hope they do well in Vancouver," said one high school student as the torch made its way through Pointe Claire.
Todd van der Heyden carries the torch
CTV Montreal anchor Todd van der Heyden ran through St. Marthe sur le Lac with the Olympic flame on Thursday morning.
He received the flame from Maxime Remillard, gave him a high five, then slowly jogged along Des Promenades Blvd.
"I'm really in the spirit this morning," said van der Heyden. "It doesn't hit you until you've got the torch in your hand.
"I really found myself welling up with emotion."
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The Olympic experience continued across the island on Thursday with the relay running through municipalities including Dollard des Ormeaux, Kirkland, Pointe Claire and Hampstead, before swinging north of the mountain and finishing in Old Montreal.
The torch was carried to Place Jacques Cartier in the evening, where there was a celebration featuring Quebec entertainer Gregory Charles.
"We just want to show our support for our Olympic athletes, and hope they do well in Vancouver," said one high school student as the torch made its way through Pointe Claire.
Todd van der Heyden carries the torch
CTV Montreal anchor Todd van der Heyden ran through St. Marthe sur le Lac with the Olympic flame on Thursday morning.
He received the flame from Maxime Remillard, gave him a high five, then slowly jogged along Des Promenades Blvd.
"I'm really in the spirit this morning," said van der Heyden. "It doesn't hit you until you've got the torch in your hand.
"I really found myself welling up with emotion."
Van der Heyden was surrounded by dozens of screaming fans as he carried the torch in front of a high school, before passing it along to Marina Hartl.
"The other thing is that a bunch of my friends showed up as well," said the CTV anchor. to France, buy cheap imitation Cartier love bracelet watched him run with the torch online, and sent in congratulatory messages afterwards (read them in the comments section below).
"To be part of this was just an awesome experience," said van der Heyden.
Another inspirational torch bearer was Dollard's Greg Shulkin.
He contracted meningitis when he was 18, and has spent much of the past 15 years in a wheelchair.
With the help of his brothers, he walked the last few steps of his 300 metre replica cartier love bracelet journey with the Olympic flame.
"It's a once in a lifetime thing Rob," Shulkin told CTV reporter Rob Lurie. "What a rush, what an inspiration. I can't wait to watch this on TV when I imitation cartier jewelry get home."
Nature's wonders woven with beautiful imperfection
Van van cleef arpels alhambra necklace knock off Gogh saw plenty in a wheat field. The horizontal expanse of nothing spectacular gave him an ideal visual proposition: earth, sky, horizon, a kind of non motif whose emptiness he could fill with colour and the struggle to give it presence.
The Wheatfield of 1888, which is close to the exit of the large Van Gogh exhibition at the NGV, makes the flimsy grasses monumental. By his welter of impulses, the carpet of ticklestakes on a grand multiplicity, gathering contrary colours to make a bristling accord that also captures the golden shimmer of the wheat.
This energetic toggling between different hues and saturation provides a chromatic cypher for the richness of the world. In its gilded glow, the most ordinary patch of countryside takes on an inimitable,oxymoronic logic a blazing rightness, a fierce tranquillity, a glorious commonplace, a raging serenity.
Van Gogh identifies the "grain" of the world in this agitated hymn to yellow, the copious fibre and strands of growing things that vie in parallel, bursting from their common plane with a shared urge to absorb the sun.
His pictures resonate with the grain that is cereal and the grain that is integral to living formations and also to the organic gestural construction of a painting, which Van Gogh demonstratively heightens.
Structuring this exhibition around the seasons is clever. It's not so much because you get a chill in the Winter rooms or experience hope with Spring; rather, the theme of the seasons belongs to the very grain of the planet, the division into parallel and recurrent strands of time that support the stretch and weave of everything else that grows and occupies space for its destined duration.
We no longer live by the seasons. We expect a constant indoor temperature and buy all fruit and vegetables throughout the year.
To negate the effect of the seasons, we consume inordinate energy. Van Gogh's world of the seasons proves that little of this ecological waste is necessary.
Perhaps just because Van Gogh himself lived by the seasons, his paintings belong intensely to the moment of their creation.
They aren't always scrupulously crafted. Some are imperfect, hasty, messy and unsatisfying.
Many contain unresolved areas of tentative, scratchy handling, with thin equivocal layers that have no rapport with the strong, tonal impasto that they abut.
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It's Van Cleef & Arpels Replica Necklace better to concentrate on the artist's connection with the senses and symbolism; because in their dynamic exchange, Van Gogh tangibly gives you access to the cosmology of a simpler life.
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The Wheatfield of 1888, which is close to the exit of the large Van Gogh exhibition at the NGV, makes the flimsy grasses monumental. By his welter of impulses, the carpet of ticklestakes on a grand multiplicity, gathering contrary colours to make a bristling accord that also captures the golden shimmer of the wheat.
This energetic toggling between different hues and saturation provides a chromatic cypher for the richness of the world. In its gilded glow, the most ordinary patch of countryside takes on an inimitable,oxymoronic logic a blazing rightness, a fierce tranquillity, a glorious commonplace, a raging serenity.
Van Gogh identifies the "grain" of the world in this agitated hymn to yellow, the copious fibre and strands of growing things that vie in parallel, bursting from their common plane with a shared urge to absorb the sun.
His pictures resonate with the grain that is cereal and the grain that is integral to living formations and also to the organic gestural construction of a painting, which Van Gogh demonstratively heightens.
Structuring this exhibition around the seasons is clever. It's not so much because you get a chill in the Winter rooms or experience hope with Spring; rather, the theme of the seasons belongs to the very grain of the planet, the division into parallel and recurrent strands of time that support the stretch and weave of everything else that grows and occupies space for its destined duration.
We no longer live by the seasons. We expect a constant indoor temperature and buy all fruit and vegetables throughout the year.
To negate the effect of the seasons, we consume inordinate energy. Van Gogh's world of the seasons proves that little of this ecological waste is necessary.
Perhaps just because Van Gogh himself lived by the seasons, his paintings belong intensely to the moment of their creation.
They aren't always scrupulously crafted. Some are imperfect, hasty, messy and unsatisfying.
Many contain unresolved areas of tentative, scratchy handling, with thin equivocal layers that have no rapport with the strong, tonal impasto that they abut.
Many pictures have inexplicable linear elements a legacy of the artist's rub with Cloisonnism that compromise the atmospheric wholeness of things and their environments.
These clumsy outlines might have begun as an attempt to Van Cleef necklace white gold fake secure the lineaments and presence of objects, but they wreck the continuity of air and light that creates atmosphere.
These rough, uncomfortable decisions don't necessarily matter because the pictures are so much about a subjective response to a motif that we end up accepting the mannerism, or ascribing it to emotion.
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It's Van Cleef & Arpels Replica Necklace better to concentrate on the artist's connection with the senses and symbolism; because in their dynamic exchange, Van Gogh tangibly gives you access to the cosmology of a simpler life.
Moldova's PM says the only way is Europe
KIEV (Reuters) Amid the tumult of Brexit, Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip on Friday vowed to keep his country on a European path and accused his rival, President Igor Dodon, of trying to pull the country back towards Russia for domestic political gain.
Filip is in Brussels this week for talks on reforms Moldova agreed to implement as part of a trade and political agreement with the European Union signed in 2014, and about plans to open a NATO liaison office in the Moldovan capital Chisinau.
His visit coincided with Dodon announcing a referendum that the president hopes will ultimately pave the way for his Socialist party to take power and ditch Moldova's EU trade pact in favour of a Russian dominated customs union.
Moldova has been ruled by a succession of pro Western governments but a corruption scandal involving the looting of $1 billion from three local banks has sapped the popularity of pro EU leaders.
Dodon signed a decree on van cleef jewelry replica Tuesday to hold a referendum in September on whether to give him greater powers to dissolve parliament and call a snap election. The referendum also proposes to cut the number of Moldovan MPs.
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"Our EU road is priority one," Filip told Reuters by phone from Brussels, speaking through a translator.
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Dodon says the EU agreement needlessly worsened relations with Moscow. Russia imposed retaliatory trade restrictions on Moldovan farm exports in response to the EU deal.
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Filip said Moldova and Russia had agreed last year to set up a bilateral commission on trade relations.
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Dodon has criticised plans for the NATO office. Filip dismissed concerns about it as scaremongering and said cooperation would help make the Moldovan army more professional.
KIEV (Reuters) Amid the tumult of Brexit, Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip on Friday vowed to keep his country on a European path and accused his rival, President Igor Dodon, of trying to pull the country back towards Russia for domestic political gain.
Filip is in Brussels this week for talks on reforms Moldova agreed to implement as part of a trade and political agreement with the European Union signed in 2014, and about plans to open a NATO liaison office in the Moldovan capital Chisinau.
His visit coincided with Dodon announcing a referendum that the president hopes will ultimately pave the way for his Socialist party to take power and ditch Moldova's EU trade pact in favour of a Russian dominated customs union.
Moldova has been ruled by a succession of pro Western governments but a corruption scandal involving the looting of $1 billion from three local banks has sapped the popularity of pro EU leaders.
Dodon signed a decree on van cleef jewelry replica Tuesday to hold a referendum in September on whether to give him greater powers to dissolve parliament and call a snap election. The referendum also proposes to cut the number of Moldovan MPs.
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"Our EU road is priority one," Filip told Reuters by phone from Brussels, speaking through a translator.
"This is the priority for both me and my colleagues, and we are only heading in one direction. This is an assurance that I wanted to make to all my counterparts here in Brussels."
Dodon says the EU agreement needlessly worsened relations with Moscow. Russia imposed retaliatory trade restrictions on Moldovan farm exports in response to the EU deal.
"I can understand what Dodon is doing but I don't think it's right," Filip said. "I think he's only using this position to pump How much Van Cleef & Arpels Clover necklace up his image."
Filip said Moldova and Russia had agreed last year to set up a bilateral commission on trade relations.
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Dodon has criticised plans for the NATO office. Filip dismissed concerns about it as scaremongering and said cooperation would help make the Moldovan army more professional.
Moving vans arrive at Holmby Hills mansion
Two moving vans arrived at Michael Jackson's rented Holmby Hills mansion this morning, and workers are removing items from the home and loading them into one of the vans.
The large, white Atlas Van Lines trucks came about the same time Janet Jackson arrived. She drove up in a maroon Bentley while wearing dark sunglasses. Before noon, one truck was inside the estate's massive black gates, and the other van waited outside.
Meanwhile, hundreds of fans continued to converge at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, lining up to catch a glimpse of Michael Jackson's star on the Walk of Fame, with almost everyone carrying a snapshot camera or cellphone camera. Security guards hurried fans along, with one telling them, "Hurry up and take a picture!" A few fans placed roses, signs, teddy bears, balloons and photos near the star; the items stretched for several feet Clover flower van cleef necklace replica along the sidewalk.
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Lawrence K. Ho in Holmby Hills, Christina House in Hollywood, Jay L. Clendenin in Encino and the Associated Press
Photo: A moving truck arrives at the Holmby Hills home where Jackson was staying before he died. Lawrence K. Ho / Los van cleef necklace black Angeles Times
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Two moving vans arrived at Michael Jackson's rented Holmby Hills mansion this morning, and workers are removing items from the home and loading them into one of the vans.
The large, white Atlas Van Lines trucks came about the same time Janet Jackson arrived. She drove up in a maroon Bentley while wearing dark sunglasses. Before noon, one truck was inside the estate's massive black gates, and the other van waited outside.
Meanwhile, hundreds of fans continued to converge at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, lining up to catch a glimpse of Michael Jackson's star on the Walk of Fame, with almost everyone carrying a snapshot camera or cellphone camera. Security guards hurried fans along, with one telling them, "Hurry up and take a picture!" A few fans placed roses, signs, teddy bears, balloons and photos near the star; the items stretched for several feet Clover flower van cleef necklace replica along the sidewalk.
top of Jackson's star lay a rosary and five red roses. A cluster of candles was placed just off to the side.
At the Jackson family home in Encino, dozens of fans joined dozens of photographers and journalists waiting for any movement inside the home.
As they stood outside in the blazing sun, some emotional summer replica Van Cleef & Arpels Clover necklace fans sought comfort in posting pictures and notes on the wall outside the home. Others surveyed the journalists as they walked up to the wall, hoping to get interviewed or photographed.
Before noon, several boxes of Domino's pizza arrived at the home, and a few were given to police officers standing watch. Two black minivans left the home this morning. Later, a UPS driver delivered a package.
Lawrence K. Ho in Holmby Hills, Christina House in Hollywood, Jay L. Clendenin in Encino and the Associated Press
Photo: A moving truck arrives at the Holmby Hills home where Jackson was staying before he died. Lawrence K. Ho / Los van cleef necklace black Angeles Times
Photo: Robin Chen of Guangzhou, China reaches to shoot photos of Michael Jackson star on Hollywood Boulevard. Christina House / For the Los Angeles Times
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School board candidates offer opinions on variety of topics during forum
Technology, reaching all students and reducing the achievement gap, students' mental health issues, and keeping up with increasing enrollment emerged as important issues for Lincoln Board of Education candidates attending a Leadership Lincoln forum Wednesday.
One of the most divisive issues the school board has faced in recent months came up most directly at the end of the forum, when an audience member asked candidate Rachel Terry how she feels about diversity and inclusion based fake love cartier bracelet on differences such as gender identity.
Terry, one of three District 2 candidates, helped found a parental rights group and initially rallied parents to express concerns to the school board over gender identity training materials used by Irving Middle School teachers, which exploded into a controversy that gained national media attention.
Terry responded by saying she doesn't believe schools should discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, race or religion and doesn't know why people think she does.
"I don't really understand how asking for transparency and parental permission has turned into I am discriminating against a certain population," she said. "I know that education is the way for all children to make their way in life. That's the way to get out of poverty, to find opportunity."
Lincoln Public Schools, she said, should focus on reaching the parents replica cartier bangle love of home schooled children who for some reason feel they aren't being served by the public schools. She said she and her husband home schooled their children for a few years in Colorado while waiting for an opening at a particular school.
District 4 candidate Jesse Wyrrick said he agrees with Terry that asking for more transparency is not an issue of discrimination, then asked the audience how many of them were transgender or knew a transgender person.
When a majority of hands went up, he expressed surprise and said the "majority should rule" on the issue of transgender students.
"On the whole," Wyrrick said, "the purpose is education, communicating skills, and not providing a restroom or a locker room that a majority of people would probably feel uncomfortable if a transgender were allowed to go into any venue they wanted to assign themselves to."
Other candidates at Wednesday's forum said LPS needs to welcome all students.
Matt Schulte, a candidate in District 6, said all students need to be cared for, and as executive director of Campus Life he works "alongside a lot of kids and adults that come from this particular population you talked about."
Connie Duncan, Terry's opponent in District 2, said the issue is simple.
"We have to educate all children," Duncan said. "We have to provide our teachers with the resources to educate all children. That's just the way it is. That's what we should do. We're an inclusive community."
Norman Dority, the third District 2 candidate, did not attend the forum.
Katie McLeese Stephenson, an incumbent facing Schulte in District 6, said schools must work with all children whoever they are and with whatever issues they cartier jewelry replica bring to school and transgender students in particular are at high risk of suicide.
"So we need to do everything we can to make every student feel comfortable, accepted and loved in our schools," she said. "It's critically important. And gender identity is a critically important part of this puzzle."
District 4 candidate Annie Mumgaard said parents already have access to curriculum and ways to offer input, so she questions those who say they only want transparency.
"As a parent I have to ask myself, how do I not have it?" she asked. "Learning is only going to happen is a child feels known, safe and respected in a classroom. That happens when teachers have the knowledge about who makes up our community."
John Cartier,Mumgaard's challenger in District 4, said one of the reasons he wanted to run was to help ensure schools are a warm and inclusive environment for all students regardless of age, race or gender identity.
He said he supports expanded learning opportunities for children and wants to support teachers and involve them more in decision making.
One of the biggest issues facing the district, he said, is helping students deal with mental health issues.
McLeese Stephenson and Duncan both said they decided to run because they want to serve students.
McLeese Stephenson said addressing poverty, trauma and other issues that lead to an achievement gap for some students is critical.
Duncan said early childhood education and after school programs are important ways to make sure all children succeed after high school and find careers.
Mumgaard said her expertise in television and as a long distance learning coordinator positions her to help the district advance in the digital age.
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Technology, reaching all students and reducing the achievement gap, students' mental health issues, and keeping up with increasing enrollment emerged as important issues for Lincoln Board of Education candidates attending a Leadership Lincoln forum Wednesday.
One of the most divisive issues the school board has faced in recent months came up most directly at the end of the forum, when an audience member asked candidate Rachel Terry how she feels about diversity and inclusion based fake love cartier bracelet on differences such as gender identity.
Terry, one of three District 2 candidates, helped found a parental rights group and initially rallied parents to express concerns to the school board over gender identity training materials used by Irving Middle School teachers, which exploded into a controversy that gained national media attention.
Terry responded by saying she doesn't believe schools should discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, race or religion and doesn't know why people think she does.
"I don't really understand how asking for transparency and parental permission has turned into I am discriminating against a certain population," she said. "I know that education is the way for all children to make their way in life. That's the way to get out of poverty, to find opportunity."
Lincoln Public Schools, she said, should focus on reaching the parents replica cartier bangle love of home schooled children who for some reason feel they aren't being served by the public schools. She said she and her husband home schooled their children for a few years in Colorado while waiting for an opening at a particular school.
District 4 candidate Jesse Wyrrick said he agrees with Terry that asking for more transparency is not an issue of discrimination, then asked the audience how many of them were transgender or knew a transgender person.
When a majority of hands went up, he expressed surprise and said the "majority should rule" on the issue of transgender students.
"On the whole," Wyrrick said, "the purpose is education, communicating skills, and not providing a restroom or a locker room that a majority of people would probably feel uncomfortable if a transgender were allowed to go into any venue they wanted to assign themselves to."
Other candidates at Wednesday's forum said LPS needs to welcome all students.
Matt Schulte, a candidate in District 6, said all students need to be cared for, and as executive director of Campus Life he works "alongside a lot of kids and adults that come from this particular population you talked about."
Connie Duncan, Terry's opponent in District 2, said the issue is simple.
"We have to educate all children," Duncan said. "We have to provide our teachers with the resources to educate all children. That's just the way it is. That's what we should do. We're an inclusive community."
Norman Dority, the third District 2 candidate, did not attend the forum.
Katie McLeese Stephenson, an incumbent facing Schulte in District 6, said schools must work with all children whoever they are and with whatever issues they cartier jewelry replica bring to school and transgender students in particular are at high risk of suicide.
"So we need to do everything we can to make every student feel comfortable, accepted and loved in our schools," she said. "It's critically important. And gender identity is a critically important part of this puzzle."
District 4 candidate Annie Mumgaard said parents already have access to curriculum and ways to offer input, so she questions those who say they only want transparency.
"As a parent I have to ask myself, how do I not have it?" she asked. "Learning is only going to happen is a child feels known, safe and respected in a classroom. That happens when teachers have the knowledge about who makes up our community."
John Cartier,Mumgaard's challenger in District 4, said one of the reasons he wanted to run was to help ensure schools are a warm and inclusive environment for all students regardless of age, race or gender identity.
He said he supports expanded learning opportunities for children and wants to support teachers and involve them more in decision making.
One of the biggest issues facing the district, he said, is helping students deal with mental health issues.
McLeese Stephenson and Duncan both said they decided to run because they want to serve students.
McLeese Stephenson said addressing poverty, trauma and other issues that lead to an achievement gap for some students is critical.
Duncan said early childhood education and after school programs are important ways to make sure all children succeed after high school and find careers.
Mumgaard said her expertise in television and as a long distance learning coordinator positions her to help the district advance in the digital age.
Terry said she wanted to be an advocate for parents who feel they don't have a voice and to offer perspective she gained from having her children attend schools in Colorado cartier love bracelet replica and Washington state.
Fatal Attraction
ON May 30, 1992, Kristin Lardner, a 21 year old college student, was stalked and shot to death in Boston by her abusive former boyfriend, Michael Cartier, who then killed himself. Kristin's father, George Lardner Jr., an investigative reporter at The Washington Post, asked his editors to let him write about her case. Kristin's murder, and Mr. Lardner's reporting in The Post, spurred Massachusetts to toughen the judicial system's handling of batterers. "The Stalking of Kristin" entwines Mr. Lardner's Pulitzer Prize winning reportage on the case with the story of his daughter's life. The result, unfortunately, is a wobbly and at times tedious book, but the deadly negligence it exposes demands attention.
Michael Cartier had an extensive criminal record, including recent convictions for beating up a previous girlfriend, Rose Ryan, and torturing and killing a kitten he had given her. His phone calls to and harassment of Kristin violated his probation and the restraining order she had taken out against him. But, as Mr. Lardner reports, court officials, cartier love bracelet on sale replica without knowing these facts, made decisions that kept Cartier out of jail. His psychologist never knew about his jailhouse drug record and never saw his rap sheet. His probation officer didn't know Cartier was already on probation for beating up Ms. Ryan, who kept knives on her night stand in case he returned. Although knock off pink gold cartier love bracelet Kristin reported to the police that Cartier violated the restraining order, the information never reached the judge who made the decision to keep Cartier free just 11 days before he murdered her. A warrant for Cartier's arrest remained outstanding six months after his suicide.
Mr. Lardner is not just an investigative reporter; he is a man possessed. He talked to everyone with a detail to contribute, including Cartier's parents. He confronted one court official after another with specifics about their negligence, his unique dual role allowing him to act out the fantasy, shared by most crime victims, of shaking the system's bureaucrats by the collar until they understand the anguish they have caused. fake love bracelets cartier But the book suffers.
Mr. Lardner was obviously a loving father, but he frequently laments that he knew little about his daughter while knock off love bracelets cartier she was alive. He has corrected that deficiency now, and a good third of the book details Kristin's childhood, including the hospital where she was born, her third grade struggles with spelling, the various metamorphoses of her Mohawk haircut and her fatal attraction to bad men. He no doubt found it therapeutic to document his daughter's days, but Kristin's life is remarkable only in light of her death, and its description does not merit such length.
His understandable fury at Michael Cartier also serves the book poorly. Cartier has come to represent all batterers to Mr. Lardner, and I was often left wondering whether Mr. Lardner is applying the lessons of his daughter's murder more generally than is warranted. In his conclusion he tosses off insufficiently supported opinions on many aspects of crime prevention, from more police (unnecessary) to intervention after problem children are no longer little (futile).
MR. LARDNER'S main point deserves to ring out: the courts often fail to prevent and punish domestic violence. He describes how batterers think and how an intelligent and manipulative criminal like Cartier, who knew the justice system inside out, can peg exactly which buttons to push with the probation officers and mental health workers who evaluate him. Mr. Lardner shows that courts still do not treat violence against women with due seriousness.
But the book's most important lesson is that Kristin did everything right. Mr. Lardner refutes the widespread belief that the courts offer effective protection to battered women, and that only women who fail to report domestic violence or drop charges continue to fall victim. Unlike many battered women, Kristin was educated, sophisticated and free of the need to worry about children, with the time and resources to make the law work for her. Most important, she was a member of the class of people who believe the law when it promises to protect them. "The Stalking of Kristin" reveals the tragic error of that trust.classic imitation cartier leve necklace size you deserve to have Let's go comprehend concerning it the situation
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Michael Cartier had an extensive criminal record, including recent convictions for beating up a previous girlfriend, Rose Ryan, and torturing and killing a kitten he had given her. His phone calls to and harassment of Kristin violated his probation and the restraining order she had taken out against him. But, as Mr. Lardner reports, court officials, cartier love bracelet on sale replica without knowing these facts, made decisions that kept Cartier out of jail. His psychologist never knew about his jailhouse drug record and never saw his rap sheet. His probation officer didn't know Cartier was already on probation for beating up Ms. Ryan, who kept knives on her night stand in case he returned. Although knock off pink gold cartier love bracelet Kristin reported to the police that Cartier violated the restraining order, the information never reached the judge who made the decision to keep Cartier free just 11 days before he murdered her. A warrant for Cartier's arrest remained outstanding six months after his suicide.
Mr. Lardner is not just an investigative reporter; he is a man possessed. He talked to everyone with a detail to contribute, including Cartier's parents. He confronted one court official after another with specifics about their negligence, his unique dual role allowing him to act out the fantasy, shared by most crime victims, of shaking the system's bureaucrats by the collar until they understand the anguish they have caused. fake love bracelets cartier But the book suffers.
Mr. Lardner was obviously a loving father, but he frequently laments that he knew little about his daughter while knock off love bracelets cartier she was alive. He has corrected that deficiency now, and a good third of the book details Kristin's childhood, including the hospital where she was born, her third grade struggles with spelling, the various metamorphoses of her Mohawk haircut and her fatal attraction to bad men. He no doubt found it therapeutic to document his daughter's days, but Kristin's life is remarkable only in light of her death, and its description does not merit such length.
His understandable fury at Michael Cartier also serves the book poorly. Cartier has come to represent all batterers to Mr. Lardner, and I was often left wondering whether Mr. Lardner is applying the lessons of his daughter's murder more generally than is warranted. In his conclusion he tosses off insufficiently supported opinions on many aspects of crime prevention, from more police (unnecessary) to intervention after problem children are no longer little (futile).
MR. LARDNER'S main point deserves to ring out: the courts often fail to prevent and punish domestic violence. He describes how batterers think and how an intelligent and manipulative criminal like Cartier, who knew the justice system inside out, can peg exactly which buttons to push with the probation officers and mental health workers who evaluate him. Mr. Lardner shows that courts still do not treat violence against women with due seriousness.
But the book's most important lesson is that Kristin did everything right. Mr. Lardner refutes the widespread belief that the courts offer effective protection to battered women, and that only women who fail to report domestic violence or drop charges continue to fall victim. Unlike many battered women, Kristin was educated, sophisticated and free of the need to worry about children, with the time and resources to make the law work for her. Most important, she was a member of the class of people who believe the law when it promises to protect them. "The Stalking of Kristin" reveals the tragic error of that trust.
Kage dance theatre's new show Out of Earshot embraces music
When choreographer Kate Denborough saw drummer Myele Manzanza perform, she knew she had to work with him.
She approached him after seeing him play at a Stonnington Jazz Festival gig several years ago, asking him to work with Kage, the Melbourne based dance company Denborough co founded with Gerard Van Dyck.
The resulting show called Out of Earshot in which Manzanza performs with Van Dyck and Anna Seymour, Elle Evangelista and Timothy Ohl, pushes the boundaries of dance and music.
Denborough pushed Manzanza's own boundaries the moment he started working with Kage, particularly his ideas about personal space.
"The very first day we started working together I was sitting at the drums and fake Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet Kate said, 'OK, what can we do here?' and just sits right on me," he says, jumping up and physically demonstrating what happened, with all replica van cleef & arpels alhambra clover bracelet the grace of a practised dancer.
"And I was what? We're going now? My idea was that I'd just be making little beats and they'd be dancing to it . but she was like, really replica Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet on me, and then I've got all these dancers coming, saying OK, climb up here and push you over there.
"That was a surprise, getting used to the breach of personal space."
For dancer Anna Seymour, who is profoundly deaf, it's the first show in which music has been integral to her performance.
"This project is really satisfying for me because it's the first time that I've worked directly with the music and the musician themselves," she says.
"Usually when I'm working on a dance project I focus on the movement, that's it, and I don't focus on the music. With this project its definitely a crucial part of it and how we create the movement. It's very visceral."
Kage, who will stage Out of Earshot next month as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival followed by a short run at Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has developed the work during a what Denborough describes as a period of "enormous difficulty" after it lost funding amid cuts to the Australia Council. It managed to continue through philanthropy and a grant from the Federal Arts Ministry's now defunct Catalyst program.
The company has emerged from that process with a brighter future, last week receiving $50,000 from the Australia Council for its next show, Caught in the Middle. Based on the experience of an Aboriginal dancer adopted by a Norwegian family, it will feature dancers from Scandinavia's Indigenous Sami people and will premiere in Sweden.
Out of Earshot is at Chunky Move, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank, from June 2 11 and Adelaide's Dunstan Playhouse on June 14 15.
When choreographer Kate Denborough saw drummer Myele Manzanza perform, she knew she had to work with him.
She approached him after seeing him play at a Stonnington Jazz Festival gig several years ago, asking him to work with Kage, the Melbourne based dance company Denborough co founded with Gerard Van Dyck.
The resulting show called Out of Earshot in which Manzanza performs with Van Dyck and Anna Seymour, Elle Evangelista and Timothy Ohl, pushes the boundaries of dance and music.
Denborough pushed Manzanza's own boundaries the moment he started working with Kage, particularly his ideas about personal space.
"The very first day we started working together I was sitting at the drums and fake Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet Kate said, 'OK, what can we do here?' and just sits right on me," he says, jumping up and physically demonstrating what happened, with all replica van cleef & arpels alhambra clover bracelet the grace of a practised dancer.
"And I was what? We're going now? My idea was that I'd just be making little beats and they'd be dancing to it . but she was like, really replica Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet on me, and then I've got all these dancers coming, saying OK, climb up here and push you over there.
"That was a surprise, getting used to the breach of personal space."
For dancer Anna Seymour, who is profoundly deaf, it's the first show in which music has been integral to her performance.
"This project is really satisfying for me because it's the first time that I've worked directly with the music and the musician themselves," she says.
"Usually when I'm working on a dance project I focus on the movement, that's it, and I don't focus on the music. With this project its definitely a crucial part of it and how we create the movement. It's very visceral."
Kage, who will stage Out of Earshot next month as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival followed by a short run at Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has developed the work during a what Denborough describes as a period of "enormous difficulty" after it lost funding amid cuts to the Australia Council. It managed to continue through philanthropy and a grant from the Federal Arts Ministry's now defunct Catalyst program.
The company has emerged from that process with a brighter future, last week receiving $50,000 from the Australia Council for its next show, Caught in the Middle. Based on the experience of an Aboriginal dancer adopted by a Norwegian family, it will feature dancers from Scandinavia's Indigenous Sami people and will premiere in Sweden.
Out of Earshot is at Chunky Move, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank, from June 2 11 and Adelaide's Dunstan Playhouse on June 14 15.
Mother's fury as Google shows 3
A woman has told of her horror after Google published a photograph of her young son naked on the internet.
Claire Rowlands, 25, was stunned to see the image of Louis mears playing on a sunny day in his grandmother's garden in Walkden, Greater Manchester.
Louis, three, had been snapped by Google's controversial 'camera car' as it took pictures of every road in Britain for the search engine's Street View service.
The company blurred out the registration plate of a car on the drive
of the house but the image of Louis, who was wearing nothing but his
shoes, was uncensored.
A spokeswoman said: 'We take issues around inappropriate content in our products very seriously, and we removed the image in question within an hour of being notified.
For us, privacy and user choice remain paramount.
'This is why we have put in place tools so that if people see what they believe to be inappropriate they can report them to us using the simple tools and the images will be quickly removed. We apologise for any inadvertent concern this may have caused.'
Privacy groups have already blasted Street View, which they branded a 'burglar's charter' when it was launched last year. Alex Deane, from the Big Brother Watch group, said: 'This is not the first time this has happened but the excuses are wearing thin.
'Google still needs to take greater responsibility for people's personal privacy and introduce stronger safeguards to the system.'
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A woman has told of her horror after Google published a photograph of her young son naked on the internet.
Claire Rowlands, 25, was stunned to see the image of Louis mears playing on a sunny day in his grandmother's garden in Walkden, Greater Manchester.
Louis, three, had been snapped by Google's controversial 'camera car' as it took pictures of every road in Britain for the search engine's Street View service.
The company blurred out the registration plate of a car on the drive
of the house but the image of Louis, who was wearing nothing but his
shoes, was uncensored.
A spokeswoman said: 'We take issues around inappropriate content in our products very seriously, and we removed the image in question within an hour of being notified.
For us, privacy and user choice remain paramount.
'This is why we have put in place tools so that if people see what they believe to be inappropriate they can report them to us using the simple tools and the images will be quickly removed. We apologise for any inadvertent concern this may have caused.'
Privacy groups have already blasted Street View, which they branded a 'burglar's charter' when it was launched last year. Alex Deane, from the Big Brother Watch group, said: 'This is not the first time this has happened but the excuses are wearing thin.
'Google still needs to take greater responsibility for people's personal privacy and introduce stronger safeguards to the system.'
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A New Retrospective Collection From Street Photographer Mark Cohen
All Images (c) Mark Cohen, Courtesy of University of Texas Press
This is an exciting post for me. Why? Because I've had a copy of Mark Cohen's FRAME on my desk for nearly two months, but had my hands tied by the publisher not to write about it. Well, I'm happy to report that is now over and I can let loose on this wonderful retrospective collection from a true master of street photography Mark Cohen.
Mark Cohen not only helped to define modern street photography, he was also one of a group of photographers who ushered in color photography and the acceptance of it as an art, not merely just a film for your grandmother to use at a birthday party. 35mm film for still photography didn't really get popular until about 1925, with the advent of the Leica camera. When one takes this into consideration, along with the acceptance of the idea that 35mm film really was the takeoff point for what we might call street photography, it is really no surprise that people like Cohen and others of his generation were the ones to notably push boundaries in new directions. Simply put, Mark Cohen was the man of the hour with 35mm street photography. Add to this mix some wide angle lenses and a blatant disregard for the viewfinder, and you have a recipe for truly groundbreaking aesthetics in photography otherwise known as the work of Mark Cohen.
It may look easy to photograph snowflakes, or a few crumbs of bread next to a puddle (a photo Cohen considers one of his best) and I suppose it is. Now, try to make those photographs iconic. Ah, yes, there is the challenge. The confluence of time, medium (and its novelty at the time), along with a new approach to a unusual subject combines to convey iconic status here. Today making a photograph like this is near impossible, not only because we feel as though the images are too familiar too exhausted but because new technologies demand new deviation to achieve aesthetic uniqueness. Those street photographers trying to emulate people like Cohen today clutching to their M3 and a roll of film are helplessly doomed. Instead, the masters of today will be the photographers who embrace the current approach to image making (digital and its derivatives) and twist and bend it until something new and unseen unfamiliar fake cartie love white gold bracelet emerges. That's how art, good art, is born. The 35mm frame of a few crumbs of bread abandoned on the sidewalk is done. It's taken. Like the blank canvass, you've missed your chance. This is why there will only ever be one Mark Cohen and one Robert Rauschenberg, in the case of the blank canvas.
I've known Mark through casual correspondence for several years now. He's a wonderfully talented artist and a gentlemen of the highest order. When I heard of his new retrospective collection I simply couldn't help but get my hands on a copy. I'm glad I did. This book is the definitive Mark Cohen. A masterful and superbly curated (Cohen sequenced the photos himself) collection of over two hundred and fifty images both black and white and color. All the iconic photographs are here and many others, some rarely seen, also find their home between these covers. The introduction functions splendidly to place Cohen's work within the overall history of street photography, as well as to highlight some of his unique contributions to this increasingly popular form of photography.
One must keep in mind when viewing Cohen's work that his selective use of flash, blur, and haphazard framing, all essential to his vision, were entirely novel at the time. These highly emulated methods are commonplace today, if not overdone entirely, and that can easily diminish one's ability to read these photographs in their appropriate context can diminish one's sense of awe and anomalousness. In precis, both Cohen's way of working, as well as his product, were entirely unfamiliar to a vintage audience. For example, Three Pieces of Bread By Puddle, 1975, is a striking image even today, in an age where this particular aesthetic is no longer strange or foreign to nearly any viewer. But imagine someone looking at this image in 1975? How almost silly it must have seemed scraps of bread, blurry too! The image is a radical departure in photography not so much for what it depicts, but for what it doesn't, and for the notion that a serious artist would put this photograph forward in any kind of serious way. Cohen was not making a statement so much with what he was showing, the crumbs of bread a puddle, but with his blatant disregard for the photographic paradigm of the time. Out of context the image is okay, interesting maybe, peculiar in context the image is iconic, a complete game changer. In fact, this particular photograph, I suspect, is a lot more important to the history of photography than we realize. This photograph allows us to renew our sense of photographic seeing to reapproach the photograph entirely. No small feat.
The physical book itself is a pleasure to hold. An attractive, but simple, slipcover (shown) hides a wonderfully elegant engraved black cloth hardbound cover with a color photo inlay. Red linen endpapers add and additional Cartier love diamond ring imitation touch of richness. Oh, and the reproduced contact sheets in the front Cartier love replica ring and rear of the book are a uniquely special touch. The University of Texas Press went all out for this book and it shows. The volume is well worth the very reasonable $85 price tag.
Now that I have you sold on the book. Let's talk to the man of the hour himself. Here's a transcript of a conversation I had with Cohen earlier this summer.
Michael Ernest Sweet: Mark, you've undeniably made significant contributions to the genre of street photography (and photography in general) how does that feel at this time in your life, to know you've had such a huge impact?
Mark Cohen: It feels very good to be a recognized artist. A photographer. I see pictures, even in newspapers and fashion magazines, with heads cut off, and close wide angle cropping, everywhere, and when I first did this it was seen as very radical. Visibility took a long time to get, but I set up a lot of obstacles in my own way, unconsciously. Now there seems to be a lot of imitation of my style or technique and that feels okay too to be seen and elaborated on in some way.
Michael: Yes, I was going to ask about how you feel to know that your work is so heavily emulated (even copied) by so many others today. Even my own work has been heavily influenced by your approach. Tell me, how did you get started in street photography?
Mark: My first influence was Cartier Bresson. I saw his book, The Decisive Moment. Then I went to downtown Wilkes Barre and made pictures on Public Square. It was where all the buses came into the city and so there were people everywhere and plenty of social activity. It was not like Mexico in 1933, but I could mix in with life all around and then develop those pictures.
Michael: Why so close, what lead you to this style of photography?
Mark: For an architectural commission I needed a 21mm lens and then I took it to the bus stop. I saw how close you needed to be to fill the frame. When I got this close the subjects began to react.
Also, at this time, 1972 or 1973, I started to carry, attached to the camera, a small flash unit that I could use to exaggerate the scene with dramatic lighting effects. The flash also enabled me to work even more quickly because the added instantaneous flash of light effectively made the exposure 1/1000th of a second at f16 so that everything was sharp and bright in the part of the frame that was key to the picture. I didn't have to stop moving to take the picture. A flux of intrusion, theater, and observation began to coalesce with these negatives.
Michael: Have you ever wanted to back up, to make photographs with wider views, more "classic" images one might say?
Mark: After a couple of years with the 21mm lens I saw that the intrusions into people's spaces was too frequent, and so I switched to a 28mm lens. This was a lot more comfortable. I had to learn to keep the camera level with these lenses because of the exaggerated distortions they made when they were tipped. I did it right. I did it all five minutes from my house. I had no real understanding of Madrid, but I went there and made pictures, and they are cool pictures but there is a local indelibility and truth about the Wilkes Barre and Scranton pictures. Some are already classics.
Michael: Mark, are you still shooting on the streets?
Mark: Yes. I moved to Philadelphia and I am trying to learn how to work here. It is an infinitely bigger place. I need to fix up a little territory to work in. It is very difficult. Some very rough sections. I have been here about two years and now think I want to make an exhibit of the new pictures which have been mostly made at the great distances required with the 50mm lens. There is no plan to my work and there is even in my own mind an incomplete understanding of what I am doing and what street photography actually is. I think it harbors an echo of surrealism in its accidentalness. I rarely look through the viewfinder.
Michael: Did you ever ask permission or "choreograph" any of your street photographs, or are they all truly candid?
Mark: Most, 99% are truly candid, but if I am very close, I might ask a deflecting question, like "can I get a picture of your ring?" Do it very fast never put the camera to my eye, and have the ring as the approximate center of this unseen gyre of picture elements; buttons, windows, collars, necks, telephone poles, etc., to be discovered in the darkroom.
Michael: I completely understand that approach, I've worked that way myself quite often. It's a good middle ground approach to fending off conflict. Have you ever had any significant altercations with strangers at the other end of the lens? Anything physical?
Mark: I have been pushed and shoved and screamed at but nothing serious. I am always aware of the edge and who to absolutely avoid. I know I am working without credentials, and very close to an invasion of privacy, even in such a public space as the street, but I am usually able to defuse the situation by explaining that it "is only my hobby."
Michael: Recent times have seen an explosion in street photography, do you think the genre is in for a radical change with the iPhone generation?
Mark: I never tried to look through an iPhone. It is hard to imagine a camera that is easier to see through the finder of than a Leica M 3. It fits in your hand at the end of your arm in a very natural way so as to position it perfectly and quickly. The digital images made by the millions each minute mostly never get printed. The selfies and grandchildren appear on the camera/phone screens. No one makes an album, or a portfolio of prints. A slim laptop is the modern way. It's all in the cloud servers everywhere burning mountains of coal to keep it all sorted. It may be that the pace of street photography needs film. It is really pretty easy to develop, then discover, a roll of film and make a silver print. Make an object. But I just saw the new "film" Tangerine, made on the streets of Los Angeles, in a terrific and free candid, intimate way, made with an iPhone 5. That might move the French new wave two steps forward, so the future of street photography is unknown in the face of these new techniques.
Michael: Finally, you're also a rare bird in the street photography genre because you're known as much for your color photographs as you are for your monochromes. Was the color photography simply a product of the times, or were you working more deliberately with the move to color?
Mark: I had a commercial photo studio so I was always using color film. In about 1974 Kodak invented a 35mm ASA 400 speed film and this was the same speed as Tri x so I could use it in the street in exactly, f stop for f stop, the same way. I shot a few rolls like this and then in 1976 the George Eastman House supported a project where I shot this new film for a whole year. Then I went back to black and white until 1987 when Fuji made a 1600 ASA speed negative film and I did another long series of negatives and prints with that film. My work was very deliberate in both black and white and color but the color pictures, which are very strong, were not seen until 2006, and took on an added significance when a portfolio of 30 dye transfer prints imitation Cartier love yellow gold ring was produced.
Michael: Mark, thank you so kindly for your time and this insightful interview. It's always a pleasure to speak with you.
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This is an exciting post for me. Why? Because I've had a copy of Mark Cohen's FRAME on my desk for nearly two months, but had my hands tied by the publisher not to write about it. Well, I'm happy to report that is now over and I can let loose on this wonderful retrospective collection from a true master of street photography Mark Cohen.
Mark Cohen not only helped to define modern street photography, he was also one of a group of photographers who ushered in color photography and the acceptance of it as an art, not merely just a film for your grandmother to use at a birthday party. 35mm film for still photography didn't really get popular until about 1925, with the advent of the Leica camera. When one takes this into consideration, along with the acceptance of the idea that 35mm film really was the takeoff point for what we might call street photography, it is really no surprise that people like Cohen and others of his generation were the ones to notably push boundaries in new directions. Simply put, Mark Cohen was the man of the hour with 35mm street photography. Add to this mix some wide angle lenses and a blatant disregard for the viewfinder, and you have a recipe for truly groundbreaking aesthetics in photography otherwise known as the work of Mark Cohen.
It may look easy to photograph snowflakes, or a few crumbs of bread next to a puddle (a photo Cohen considers one of his best) and I suppose it is. Now, try to make those photographs iconic. Ah, yes, there is the challenge. The confluence of time, medium (and its novelty at the time), along with a new approach to a unusual subject combines to convey iconic status here. Today making a photograph like this is near impossible, not only because we feel as though the images are too familiar too exhausted but because new technologies demand new deviation to achieve aesthetic uniqueness. Those street photographers trying to emulate people like Cohen today clutching to their M3 and a roll of film are helplessly doomed. Instead, the masters of today will be the photographers who embrace the current approach to image making (digital and its derivatives) and twist and bend it until something new and unseen unfamiliar fake cartie love white gold bracelet emerges. That's how art, good art, is born. The 35mm frame of a few crumbs of bread abandoned on the sidewalk is done. It's taken. Like the blank canvass, you've missed your chance. This is why there will only ever be one Mark Cohen and one Robert Rauschenberg, in the case of the blank canvas.
I've known Mark through casual correspondence for several years now. He's a wonderfully talented artist and a gentlemen of the highest order. When I heard of his new retrospective collection I simply couldn't help but get my hands on a copy. I'm glad I did. This book is the definitive Mark Cohen. A masterful and superbly curated (Cohen sequenced the photos himself) collection of over two hundred and fifty images both black and white and color. All the iconic photographs are here and many others, some rarely seen, also find their home between these covers. The introduction functions splendidly to place Cohen's work within the overall history of street photography, as well as to highlight some of his unique contributions to this increasingly popular form of photography.
One must keep in mind when viewing Cohen's work that his selective use of flash, blur, and haphazard framing, all essential to his vision, were entirely novel at the time. These highly emulated methods are commonplace today, if not overdone entirely, and that can easily diminish one's ability to read these photographs in their appropriate context can diminish one's sense of awe and anomalousness. In precis, both Cohen's way of working, as well as his product, were entirely unfamiliar to a vintage audience. For example, Three Pieces of Bread By Puddle, 1975, is a striking image even today, in an age where this particular aesthetic is no longer strange or foreign to nearly any viewer. But imagine someone looking at this image in 1975? How almost silly it must have seemed scraps of bread, blurry too! The image is a radical departure in photography not so much for what it depicts, but for what it doesn't, and for the notion that a serious artist would put this photograph forward in any kind of serious way. Cohen was not making a statement so much with what he was showing, the crumbs of bread a puddle, but with his blatant disregard for the photographic paradigm of the time. Out of context the image is okay, interesting maybe, peculiar in context the image is iconic, a complete game changer. In fact, this particular photograph, I suspect, is a lot more important to the history of photography than we realize. This photograph allows us to renew our sense of photographic seeing to reapproach the photograph entirely. No small feat.
The physical book itself is a pleasure to hold. An attractive, but simple, slipcover (shown) hides a wonderfully elegant engraved black cloth hardbound cover with a color photo inlay. Red linen endpapers add and additional Cartier love diamond ring imitation touch of richness. Oh, and the reproduced contact sheets in the front Cartier love replica ring and rear of the book are a uniquely special touch. The University of Texas Press went all out for this book and it shows. The volume is well worth the very reasonable $85 price tag.
Now that I have you sold on the book. Let's talk to the man of the hour himself. Here's a transcript of a conversation I had with Cohen earlier this summer.
Michael Ernest Sweet: Mark, you've undeniably made significant contributions to the genre of street photography (and photography in general) how does that feel at this time in your life, to know you've had such a huge impact?
Mark Cohen: It feels very good to be a recognized artist. A photographer. I see pictures, even in newspapers and fashion magazines, with heads cut off, and close wide angle cropping, everywhere, and when I first did this it was seen as very radical. Visibility took a long time to get, but I set up a lot of obstacles in my own way, unconsciously. Now there seems to be a lot of imitation of my style or technique and that feels okay too to be seen and elaborated on in some way.
Michael: Yes, I was going to ask about how you feel to know that your work is so heavily emulated (even copied) by so many others today. Even my own work has been heavily influenced by your approach. Tell me, how did you get started in street photography?
Mark: My first influence was Cartier Bresson. I saw his book, The Decisive Moment. Then I went to downtown Wilkes Barre and made pictures on Public Square. It was where all the buses came into the city and so there were people everywhere and plenty of social activity. It was not like Mexico in 1933, but I could mix in with life all around and then develop those pictures.
Michael: Why so close, what lead you to this style of photography?
Mark: For an architectural commission I needed a 21mm lens and then I took it to the bus stop. I saw how close you needed to be to fill the frame. When I got this close the subjects began to react.
Also, at this time, 1972 or 1973, I started to carry, attached to the camera, a small flash unit that I could use to exaggerate the scene with dramatic lighting effects. The flash also enabled me to work even more quickly because the added instantaneous flash of light effectively made the exposure 1/1000th of a second at f16 so that everything was sharp and bright in the part of the frame that was key to the picture. I didn't have to stop moving to take the picture. A flux of intrusion, theater, and observation began to coalesce with these negatives.
Michael: Have you ever wanted to back up, to make photographs with wider views, more "classic" images one might say?
Mark: After a couple of years with the 21mm lens I saw that the intrusions into people's spaces was too frequent, and so I switched to a 28mm lens. This was a lot more comfortable. I had to learn to keep the camera level with these lenses because of the exaggerated distortions they made when they were tipped. I did it right. I did it all five minutes from my house. I had no real understanding of Madrid, but I went there and made pictures, and they are cool pictures but there is a local indelibility and truth about the Wilkes Barre and Scranton pictures. Some are already classics.
Michael: Mark, are you still shooting on the streets?
Mark: Yes. I moved to Philadelphia and I am trying to learn how to work here. It is an infinitely bigger place. I need to fix up a little territory to work in. It is very difficult. Some very rough sections. I have been here about two years and now think I want to make an exhibit of the new pictures which have been mostly made at the great distances required with the 50mm lens. There is no plan to my work and there is even in my own mind an incomplete understanding of what I am doing and what street photography actually is. I think it harbors an echo of surrealism in its accidentalness. I rarely look through the viewfinder.
Michael: Did you ever ask permission or "choreograph" any of your street photographs, or are they all truly candid?
Mark: Most, 99% are truly candid, but if I am very close, I might ask a deflecting question, like "can I get a picture of your ring?" Do it very fast never put the camera to my eye, and have the ring as the approximate center of this unseen gyre of picture elements; buttons, windows, collars, necks, telephone poles, etc., to be discovered in the darkroom.
Michael: I completely understand that approach, I've worked that way myself quite often. It's a good middle ground approach to fending off conflict. Have you ever had any significant altercations with strangers at the other end of the lens? Anything physical?
Mark: I have been pushed and shoved and screamed at but nothing serious. I am always aware of the edge and who to absolutely avoid. I know I am working without credentials, and very close to an invasion of privacy, even in such a public space as the street, but I am usually able to defuse the situation by explaining that it "is only my hobby."
Michael: Recent times have seen an explosion in street photography, do you think the genre is in for a radical change with the iPhone generation?
Mark: I never tried to look through an iPhone. It is hard to imagine a camera that is easier to see through the finder of than a Leica M 3. It fits in your hand at the end of your arm in a very natural way so as to position it perfectly and quickly. The digital images made by the millions each minute mostly never get printed. The selfies and grandchildren appear on the camera/phone screens. No one makes an album, or a portfolio of prints. A slim laptop is the modern way. It's all in the cloud servers everywhere burning mountains of coal to keep it all sorted. It may be that the pace of street photography needs film. It is really pretty easy to develop, then discover, a roll of film and make a silver print. Make an object. But I just saw the new "film" Tangerine, made on the streets of Los Angeles, in a terrific and free candid, intimate way, made with an iPhone 5. That might move the French new wave two steps forward, so the future of street photography is unknown in the face of these new techniques.
Michael: Finally, you're also a rare bird in the street photography genre because you're known as much for your color photographs as you are for your monochromes. Was the color photography simply a product of the times, or were you working more deliberately with the move to color?
Mark: I had a commercial photo studio so I was always using color film. In about 1974 Kodak invented a 35mm ASA 400 speed film and this was the same speed as Tri x so I could use it in the street in exactly, f stop for f stop, the same way. I shot a few rolls like this and then in 1976 the George Eastman House supported a project where I shot this new film for a whole year. Then I went back to black and white until 1987 when Fuji made a 1600 ASA speed negative film and I did another long series of negatives and prints with that film. My work was very deliberate in both black and white and color but the color pictures, which are very strong, were not seen until 2006, and took on an added significance when a portfolio of 30 dye transfer prints imitation Cartier love yellow gold ring was produced.
Michael: Mark, thank you so kindly for your time and this insightful interview. It's always a pleasure to speak with you.
Mark: Thank you, Michael. I am very happy to have this chance to talk about my work and this new book from The University of Texas Press.