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the last photographer hired by Life Magazine when Larry Burrows died in February 1971. The famous magazine ceased publication the following year. He then joined the French agency Gamma before co-founding Contact Press Images with Robert Pledge in New York in 1976. Contact Press Images is entering…

Born in 1955 in Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons is a renowned American contemporary artist known for his practice of placing every day, ordinary objects in unique installations. Although he got his expertise in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he obtained his M.F.A., he ended up transferring to the School of the Art Institution of Chicago after visiting and becoming inspired by an exhibit of Jim Nutt, who also attended the Art Institution on Chicago. He stated in an…

started high school, ballet was the center of my life. Two of my closest friends and I attended to an intense summer program for over a month. We were constantly together dreaming of future careers in ballet. In our free time we watched videos of the New York City Ballet. I dreamed of eventually becoming a part of that company. My goals were set high, and so was my motivation and work ethic. That fall, I began my first year of high school. Like a lot of other introverted people, I did not like…

Eric Lui was born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1968 to parents that came from Taiwan in the 1950’s. His father was an IBM executive and his mother a computer programmer. Lui graduated from Yale in 1990. He was Bill Clinton’s youngest speechwriter. Lui went on to write The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native speaker (1998) along with other essay collections. In Stranger in the Village, Baldwin writes of his experiences as the only black person living in a Swiss village. Baldwin struggled with…

Imagine a reality where one had no control over his own choices- whether its marriage, friends, or even taste in music. In the novel Age of Innocence, one would expect to live such a lifestyle. Taking place in upper class New York, the socialites “all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs” (Wharton 145). The story focuses on Newland Archer, a restrained young attorney who is forced to…

Hip-Hop has Changed the World “Music can change the world because it can change people.” (Bono) Hip-hop first started in the 1970s in the neighborhoods of the New York City Bronx. It immediately became a huge movement in African American culture and soon affected people from all over the world. It spread from one city to many in a matter of months, from movies to music videos, hip-hop was everywhere. It was a statement, a voice for African Americans to speak up against civil rights. Hip-hop…

at his local school so his parents enrolled him at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania where he began to write stories under his covers at night. His writing continued as he got older and he began to submit several stories to the New Yorker paper which were all unfortunately rejected. In the Spring of 1942, during WWII several months after the United States had entered the war, Jerome had drafted into the war and was sent to fight in the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry…

Being born and raid in New York City, I can proudly, and biasedly say, that NYC is the best city in the world. The fast pace and the discord of NYC is in my blood and quite honestly, something I doubt I’ll be able to live without. One of the best aspects of being from NYC is all the wonderful sights we are given a chance to admire. From Times Square, to Coney Island, NYC is full of eye candy. Despite the advanced public transportation system (that’ll still get me to class twenty minutes late),…

Dennis Stock was born July 4, 1928, in tThe Bronx, New York City, NY. Stock had a love for photography early on in life but decided to join the army instead of pursuing the art. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1947 through 1951. When he was discharged Stock decided to try and earn an apprenticeship with Gjon Mili. While working, Stock was mostly placed in Holloywood settings after joining Magnum in 1951. Stock began to make it in the industry after his apprenticeship with Life magazine's…

When reading a book an individual should be on cloud nine in a world that they can equally relate to however also gain knowledge from. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald it goes back to the early twentieth century, where Nick Carraway moves to New York to start a new life and business. His next door neighbor is the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who once had a love affair with Daisy Buchanan, which is Nick's cousin. In the novel, Nick knows all the hidden secrets and love affairs but does not…