| Sunday Stills |
ISSUE 16
Sunday, May 11, 2014 |
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| PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY INTERNET ARCHAEOLOGY/JESSE CASANA, JACKSON COTHREN, AND TUNA KALAYCI |
A study of Cold War spy-satellite photos has tripled the number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East, revealing thousands of ancient cities, roads, canals, and other ruins.
The new Corona Atlas of the Middle East, unveiled recently at the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting, moves spy-satellite science to a new level. Surveying land from Egypt to Iran—and encompassing the Fertile Crescent, the renowned cradle of civilization and location of some of humanity’s earliest cities—the atlas reveals numerous sites that had been lost to history. |
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| A pair of double-bar goatfish (male and female) spawn at dusk in the waters off Millennium Atoll in the central South Pacific. These remote reefs remain largely unspoiled, with healthy fish biomass and coral cover up to 100 percent in most locations. Coverage from an upcoming story in @natgeo about the Southern Line Islands. @thephotosociety @natgeocreative #pristineseas #kiribati #subal |
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LEFT: PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD;
RIGHT: PRIVATE COLLECTION/THE BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY |
These days, a boat on the Seine may be powered by motor rather than sail or oar; crinolines, bustles, full skirts, and top hats worn by those on a promenade are replaced by wearers of jeans and t-shirts. But the interplay of light and water on the river is as captivating now as it was for the 19th-century painters who captured its opalescence.
Writer Cathy Newman and photographer William Albert Allard present a series of pairings of paintings and photographs from the assignment for the sheer pleasure of enjoyment. Monet would have approved. “People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand,” he wrote. “When it’s simply necessary to love.” |
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| photograph by Diogo Pereira |
| “Once I asked a lady if I could take a portrait of her, and she said to me, ‘Ho, no, no way, I’m terrible right now. I don’t have the proper clothing, and I don’t have any makeup,’” says Your Shot contributor Diogo Pereira. “I finally persuaded her and I took a portrait of her. This is why I love taking street portraits; people aren’t expecting that they’ll be photographed that day, so they’re dressed as normal as possible and don’t have any makeup on, [the way they would if] they were about to start a photography session in a studio. People that I photograph are themselves—they don’t add anything that they wouldn’t have or use or wear on a regular day.” |
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