When her daughter Emma turned five recently, photographer Jaime Moore wanted to celebrate with a creative photo session. The ideas she saw online were almost all too Disney and princessy for Moore’s taste, so she came up with her own idea to teach her daughter about real-life women whose accomplishments are worth emulating…
What would famous faces from history look like if they were around today? This is the question being asked in this series of re-imagined portraits commissioned by the British history channel “Yesterday”…
In 1962, Rose Kennedy wrote to Soviet Premier Khrushchev asking for an autographed photo. Learning that his mother had reached out to the Soviet Premier, JFK wrote her this letter asking her to please check with him before she took it upon herself to correspond with heads of state as requests like hers are “subject to interpretations.” The timing is interesting, considering JFK wrote back to Rose almost immediately after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In response to this letter, Rose Kennedy wrote back, saying: “I understand very well your letter, although I had not thought of it before. …When I ask for Castro’s autograph, I will let you know in advance!”
In this video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, curator Jeff L. Rosenheim talks about some of the Civil War images in his new book Photography and the Civil War. It brings a fascinating new perspective to see the pictures with the help of someone who knows both the history of the war as well as photography…
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