Memorial Day. The unofficial kickoff to summer. Barbecues sizzling. Lawn sprinklers hissing. Local marching bands tooting out Sousa. Red, white, and blue bunting hanging from the porch railings, and on T.V., someone begins a recitation of Lt. Col. John McCrae’s classic poem: “In Flanders field, the poppies blow. Between the crosses row on row …”In the run-up to every Memorial Day weekend, for the past several years, a certain photo takes top spot in those most circulated among my fellow military and veteran wives. On blogs, on social media sites, it is shared and “liked” over and over. Taken by the photographer Todd Heisler, from his 2005 award-winning series for the Rocky Mountain News, “Jim Comes Home,” which documents the return and burial of Marine ... Continue reading →
by Craig Silverman Published May 24, 2012 8:44 am Updated May 24, 2012 9:18 am Over the course of 16 years spent working in product management for Adobe, Kevin Connor often heard customers ask if there was any way to determine whether an image had been altered using Photoshop. “We would get calls pretty frequently (and as time went on, more frequently) from people asking, ‘Are there ways to detect this?’ ” said Connor, who was vice president of product management for Photoshop when left the company last year. Connor is now working with noted digital image forensics expert Dr. Hany Farid on a startup to provide tools to help sniff out altered images. Their company, Fourandsix, will roll out its first detection product later ... Continue reading →
The western portion of the Upper Peninsula hopes that recent interest from mining companies will help the region recover from a long slump. Continue reading →
Pete Souza/The White House In the photo that has hung in the West Wing for three years, President Obama looks to be bowing to five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia, his arm raised to touch the president’s hair — to see if it feels like his. WASHINGTON — For decades at the White House, photographs of the president at work and at play have been hung throughout the West Wing, and each print soon gives way to a more recent shot. But one picture remains after three years, its staying power testifying to the thousand words it seems worth to those who see it. In the photo, President Obama looks to be bowing to a sharply dressed black boy, who stands erect beside the Oval Office desk, his ... Continue reading →
Convicted Sterling Hall bomber Karl Armstrong was arrested last week in Chicago after state troopers found more than $800,000 cash in heat-sealed bags stashed inside of a motor home that Armstrong was driving, according to a document filed Monday in court.That arrest Thursday led to a search on Saturday by the state Division of Criminal Investigation of a town of Madison trailer home where Armstrong lives for evidence of marijuana trafficking, according to a search warrant filed in Dane County Circuit Court.Neither Wisconsin nor Illinois authorities found marijuana in Armstrong's trailer or motor home.A spokeswoman from the Illinois State Police office in Chicago did not return phone or email messages asking about Armstrong's current status.During the search of Armstrong's trailer on Honeysuckle Lane in the ... Continue reading →
by: National Press Photographers Association CHICAGO, IL (May 21, 2012) – At least one photographer was arrested and another struck over the head with a police baton late Sunday while covering anti-war protesters marching in opposition to the NATO summit in Chicago. Details are sparse, but photographs posted on Twitter and other Web sitesshow Getty Images freelance photographer Joshua Lott being arrested on Sunday night,while another photograph showsGetty's Scott Olson with blood streaming down his faceafter being hit with a Chicago police baton. Continue reading →
Content Section Gang Violence and Crime in Chicago Chicago’s South Side has experienced major changes over the past decade. Covering more than half the city of Chicago, the area has seen the dissolution of the world’s largest public-housing development, a multi-million-dollar rehabilitation of the lakefront area, and a spike in crime and violence in neighborhoods like Englewood and Little Village—that resulted in 49 shootings in March alone. Photographer Jon Lowenstein, who recently received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, has spent a decade documenting the neighborhoods and the lives of the people living on the South Side. On assignment for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, he photographed the neighborhoods of Englewood and Little Village, among others, to look at the rise in violence and the impact ... Continue reading →
