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  • Apr 20, 13

    The first African-American photographer at Life and a top fashion photographer at Vogue, Mr. Parks, who died in 2006, was equally attracted to grit and glamour, said the photographer Adger Cowans, 76, who worked as his assistant in the 1950s and was a lifelong friend. ''He was a storyteller trying to tell a different kind of story,'' Mr. Cowans said. Mr. Parks took most of the photographs here for the Farm Security Administration, where he worked on a fellowship in the 1940s documenting life in Washington and New York City. His Harlem photographs, especially, are so intimate because ''they're almost reflections of what he remembers of his childhood,'' said Anthony Barboza, 68, another photographer and friend. ''He's talking about himself. There is some wonderment in the pictures because Harlem was incredible at that time. Everyone was there.'' JOHN LELAND

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    • Wall Street Journal Abstracts

      November 13, 2012 Tuesday

      SANDY PUTS FOCUS ON WIRELESS BACKUP

      BYLINE: SPENCER E ANTE

      SECTION: B; Pg. 6

      LENGTH: 43 words

      ABSTRACT

      FCC will once again consider adequacy of backup power supplies for wireless carriers after widespread outages following Hurricane Sandy in world increasingly reliant on wireless devices;  industry blocked new rules following Hurricane Katrina; photo (M)

    • The New York Times

      November 19, 2012 Monday
      Late Edition - Final

      After Hurricane Sandy, People Flock to Radio for Information

      BYLINE: By BEN SISARIO

      SECTION: Section B; Column 0; Business/Financial Desk; MEDIA DECODER; Pg. 3

      LENGTH: 453 words

      During the arrival and immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy last month, those with power looked to television, the Web and social media for information. But large numbers of people, particularly those in the hardest-hit areas, also turned to the radio.

      Arbitron, the radio ratings service, will report on Monday that from 7 p.m. to midnight on Oct. 29, when the storm made landfall in New Jersey, an average of just more than a million people in the broader New York region were listening to the radio during any 15-minute period. That is up 70 percent from the same period the week before. (Besides the five boroughs of New York City, the metropolitan market includes five counties in New York, nine in New Jersey and part of one in Connecticut.)

      The audience skyrocketed in coastal areas. Stamford and Norwalk, Conn., had a 367 percent increase during that period; in New Jersey, that figure was up 247 percent in Monmouth County, and up 195 percent in Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties. These numbers increased even though some stations, like WNYC and WINS, lost their AM frequencies yet continued to broadcast on FM.

      In many areas, power was out for days, limiting access to televisions and computers. Joe Puglise, the manager of Clear Channel CommunicationsEnhanced Coverage LinkingClear Channel Communications -Search using:Company ProfileNews, Most Recent 60 DaysCompany Dossier' radio stations in New York, said that at his home in Monmouth County, which got power back last week, he tuned in on a transistor radio, and that his stations received similar reports from listeners across the region.

      At WHTZ-FM, also known as Z100, Clear Channel's popular Top 40 station, D.J.'s whose news reports are usually confined to Lady Gaga sightings took calls from listeners and spent long stretches disseminating information from the authorities. At Clear Channel's building in TriBeCa, the studios had generator power but offices upstairs were dark.

      "We haven't had a situation like this in terms of response from listeners since 9/11," Mr. Puglise said.

      In some areas, the storm continued to dominate the airwaves well into last week, as Sean Ross, a radio analyst in New Jersey, noted in an online column for Billboard magazine about WJLK-FM, a Top 40 station on the Jersey Shore. On that station, the storm was a topic for news coverage, listener testimonials, even car dealer and supermarket ads.

      The news reports on commercial music stations contrasts with the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Ross said, when many stations simply turned their signals over to affiliated news stations. It also underscores radio's local roots and accessibility in a time of media deluge.

      "Radio," Mr. Ross said, "still has an authority that not every tweet has."

      This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.



      URL: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/after-hurricane-sandy-people-flock-to-radio-for-information/

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  • Jun 15, 14

    "By: Siltala, Pirkko. International Forum of Psychoanalysis. Dec98, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p133-155. 23p. 4 Black and White Photographs. Abstract: Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist (1907-1954). Altogether she painted almost 200 pictures, among them 55 self-portraits. Frida contracted polio at the age of six and her right leg was shrivelled. She began to paint at the age of 18 while recovering from a serious traffic accident, as a result of which she could never give birth to a living child. This was a painful and wounding experience for her. But Frida psychologically created an inner space, enlivening her womanhood, and remained artistically creative. She underwent over 30 operations and was bed-ridden for long periods of her life. Frida's pictures derive from her life as a woman. She created something new out of her archaic Mexican heritage. Space, time, the body, are entwined in many ways in Frida's life and art. It is in space and time"

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