Month / September 2017
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From naked to gritty
Getty Images, major purveyor of stock photography, revealed that their most popular image for the search term “woman” has shifted over the last 10 years. Ten years ago it was a naked woman under a white towel—possibly a spa situation? Now it’s a woman power-hiking a rocky mountain trail. Can it be just that activewear is the new little black dress? No, it seems like more. At Getty, they’re calling…
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A museum taps us on the shoulder
I got a surprising email out of the blue, from someone looking for the copyright holders of a poster created years ago called “Freeing South Africa, freeing ourselves.” Was I the Axie Breen listed as co-designer on this poster? Yes I was! They were looking for permission to include it in an interactive exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which was just about to open…
