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David Schonauer Tuesday October 14, 2025
MTV went on the air for the first time on August 1, 1981, introducing itself with a video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Four years after that seminal cultural moment,
photographer Jamie Morgan and fashion stylist Ray Petri further defined the 80s as we know it today - authentic youth culture, edgy attitude, androgyny, and the dawn of … Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Monday October 13, 2025
Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California’s national guard on the streets of Portland, Oregon, the state’s Republican party welcomed the planned deployment in posts on social media, illustrated with an image showing unbridled protests against immigration sweeps in Portland. However, notes The Guardian, the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.
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Design Boom Monday October 13, 2025
Suzanne Jongmans bridges centuries of image-making in her work, currently on view at Dordts Patriciërshuis in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Jongmans’ photographs, eerily reminiscent of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, confront visitors with an unexpected tension, as beneath their luminous serenity lies a fabric of plastic, foam, and bubble wrap, notes Design Boom. “Existential dualities, love and loss, transience and eternity, youth and maturity, form the emotional thread through her practice,” adds DB. Read the full Story >>
