Weegee, the world's first paparazzo, documented the brutality of New York's gang wars of the 1930s and 1940s like no one before or since.While the Rockefellers and Carnegies gallivanted around luxurious Manhattan hotspots in the early 20th century, Arthur Fellig had his eyes, and camera, on a very different New York City.
In the 1930s and ’40s, life in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where Fellig took many of his photos, was marked by violence, crime, and death. Read More...
What Are The Symptoms of Jerusalem Syndrome? Courtesy of Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and Postmasters GalleryA still from the Polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra’s (Left) documentary about Jerusalem Syndrome. The man pictured (Right) claims he is “the chosen one” from the Tribe of Ephraim.
Bar-El breaks down Jerusalem Syndrome into seven stages, each exhibiting unique symptoms:
Anxiety
In the first stage, Bar-El says that an individual with Jerusalem Syndrome will start feeling a sense of general, inexplicable unease. Read More...
What happened on this day in history: The Mason-Dixon line is established in 1767, John Lennon and Yoko Ono are arrested for drug possession in 1968, and more landmark events that happened on October 18.1469: King Ferdinand And Queen Isabella Marry Public DomainKing Ferdinand and Queen Isabella’s wedding portrait circa 1469.
Ferdinand of the Kingdom of Aragon marries Isabella of the Kingdom of Castile. Their marriage effectively united Spain under a single monarchy, although it would be 250 years before the unification was made official. Read More...
