A dog snuggles up to a woman with a prosthetic leg while waiting to march in the Veteran’s Day Parade in New York City on November 11, 2013. The parade included members of all four branches of the military, as well as members of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), New York Police Department (NYPD) and veterans from all major conflicts that the United States has been involved with since World War II. By Andrew Burton/Getty Images.
Colossal captions:
In 1578 word spread of the discovery in Rome of a network of underground tombs containing the remains of thousands of early Christian martyrs. Many skeletons of these supposed saints were soon removed from their resting place and sent to Catholic churches in Europe to replace holy relics that were destroyed during the Protestant Reformation. Once in place the skeletons were then carefully reassembled and enshrined in costumes, wigs, jewels, crowns, gold lace, and armor as a physical reminder of the heavenly treasures that awaited in the afterlife. Over the past few years photographer Paul Koudounaris who specializes in the photography of skeletal reliquaries, mummies and other aspects of death, managed to gain unprecendented access to various religious institutions to photograph many of these beautifully macabre shrines for the first time in history.
Previous Dish on relics here and here.
(Photo of St. Valerius by Paul Koudounaris from the book Heavenly Bodies)
Pinar captions the above piece by Joe Black:
London-based artist Joe Black uses thousands of tiny objects to create large-scale murals of iconic and historical figures. Each piece features a variety of components ranging from small toys and chess pieces to nuts and bolts. His material choice plays a significant role in portraying his interpretive message, while presenting it in an eye-catching manner. …
Black has his first solo exhibition, titled Ways of Seeing, at the Opera Gallery in London, currently displaying a selection of the artist’s thought-provoking work through November 19, 2013.
A close-up of the Stalin mural:
(Images courtesy of Joe Black)
A young Indian child in class at Katha Community School in the Govindpuri slum district of Dehli during Day 3 of an official visit to India of the Prince of Wales and Duchess Of Cornwall on November 8, 2013. This will be the Royal couple’s third official visit to India together and their most extensive yet. By Chris Jackson/Getty Images.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo adjusts his tie while waiting to see what Twitter’s opening market price will be on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 7, 2013. Twitter went public today, selling at a market price of $45.10, with the initial price being set at $26 on November 6. The IPO drove the seven-year-old company’s value to $25 billion. By Andrew Burton/Getty Images.
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A protester faces police under the rain on November 6, 2013 in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens during a 24-hour strike. A general strike hit Greece on November 6, paralyzing public services and disrupting transport as EU-IMF auditors worked to finalize the recession-hit country’s next budget, looking to eliminate a fiscal shortfall that could bring more unpopular cuts. By Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images.
Tobias Nichols, 2, yawns while waiting for his father, Dan Nichols, to vote on Election Day on November 5, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. New York Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio is running against Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota. By Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
The Telegraph has a wonderful gallery of photographs from nineteenth century London from the LSE’s digital library. “Street Life in London” (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1877) is annotated by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. This one leapt out at me:
Thomson and Smith write of her:
The crawler, for instance, whose portrait is now before the reader, is the widow of a tailor who died some ten years ago. She had been living with her son-in-law, a marble stone-polisher by trade, who is now in difficulties through ill-health. It appears, however, that, at best, “he never cared much for his work,” and innumerable quarrels ensued between him, his wife, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, a youth of fifteen. At last, after many years of wrangling, the mother, finding that her presence aggravated her daughter’s troubles, left this uncomfortable home, and with her young son descended penniless into the street. From that day she fell lower and lower, and now takes her seat among the crawlers of the district.”
David Rosenberg provides background on the above image:
Roughly 10 years ago, photographer Stephanie Diani went to Helendale, Calif., to check out the Miss Exotic World pageant, which is now located in Las Vegas and known as the Burlesque Hall of Fame. … Diani had heard about the Legends of Burlesque—“ladies of a certain age who perform and teach younger dancers,” she said—and found herself watching the women, some of whom were septuagenarians, parading around in scantly clad outfits or even just pasties with an air of confidence that fascinated Diani. She made a mental note to work on a project about them.
Seven years after her visit, Diani decided to research the dancers’ whereabouts and began a series of portraits of the women taken in their homes (or sometimes in a hotel room) wearing either their favorite costumes or something of significance to them. She began with Stephanie Blake in Simi Valley, Calif., who then referred Diani to another dancer. This began a word-of-mouth project that became “Dames: The Legends of Burlesque.”
(Photo of Toni Elling by Stephanie Diani)
For her series “Die Kampfkinder,” or “Fighting Kids,” Sandra Hoyn photographed the young Muay Thai competitors of Thailand. David Rosenberg details:
Although Hoyn said many people were shocked by her images of children fighting, she said in Thailand it isn’t really unusual, and it is common to see young children training, often as a way to escape poverty. Although her photographs make it seem like a very rough sport for the children, Hoyn wrote that she didn’t see many of them seriously hurt since they aren’t as powerful as adults. “Few of these children boxers will be rewarded with fame, glory, or money,” Hoyn wrote, noting that although money bets are illegal in Thailand, they don’t seem to be enforced.
“The most shocking thing for me was to see the pressure on these children. They are the instrument for the parents to earn money, and they have to win the fight because the parents bet a lot of money on them. A lot of people lose all their money in one night,” she said.
(Photo by Sandra Hoyn)
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