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Reads tagged with “photography”

Building Rome in a Day: Crowdsourced 3D Cities
Building Rome in a Day: Crowdsourced 3D Cities

Reconstructing Rome, or what 496 computer cores and an autistic savant have in common.

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Photography Spotlight: <em>Things</em>
Photography Spotlight: Things

The cultural anthropology of things, or what Hitler’s head has to do with Barbie.

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Artist Spotlight: Stephan Zirwes Aerial Photography
Artist Spotlight: Stephan Zirwes Aerial Photography

Soccer field species, abstracting nature, and why you aren’t nearly as big as you think.

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Photographic Time Machine
Photographic Time Machine

How to tear the space-time continuum with your bare hands and a camera lens.

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Exactitudes: Cross-Cultural Photo-Anthropology Explores the Myth of Unique Identity
Exactitudes: Cross-Cultural Photo-Anthropology Explores the Myth of Unique Identity

Why we aren’t nearly as unique as we think, or what twelve Japanese school children have to do with twelve homeless people in Rotterdam.

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TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 3
TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 3

Hip hop for peace, hot air balloons, and stereotypes.

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Philanthropy Spotlight: 100 Girls Back to School
Philanthropy Spotlight: 100 Girls Back to School

What 100 girls in Asia have to do with Copa Cabana beaches, or why private-sector philanthropy is the real global game-changer.

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Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization
Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization

What 20,500 tuna have to do with your old toothbrush, or how a plastic comb ended up on top of Japan’s most iconic volcano.

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As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph
As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph

A portrait of Earth painted with 300,000 brushes, or why editorial curation and user-generated content can be friends.

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Photography Spotlight: The 50 States Project
Photography Spotlight: The 50 States Project

Fifty states. Fifty photographers. Six assignments. One year. Go.

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