Walls tumbled after apartheid unravelled JOHANNESBURG - The handsome art-deco building at 193 Jeppe St was typical of its apartheid times: full of white-collar professionals, mostly white, and an army of blacks pushing brooms and serving tea until night fell and the segregation... ヨハネスブルクは - 193ジャップ聖ハンサムアールデコの建物は、アパルトヘイト時代の典型的なされました：ホワイトカラーの専門家、主に白と。箒を押すの軍隊の完全かつお茶泊分離落ちまで...
Artist of the week 136: Vera Lutter Ghostly forms float around Vera Lutter's pinhole-camera shots, mixing modern imagery with antique photographic technologyWill-o'-the-wisps seem to dart around New York-based artist Vera Lutter's uncanny photographs of cityscapes and ancient sites. In her latest black and white series, Egypt, contours of pyramids jut from the paper like wall reliefs. You could almost touch the empty deserts they rise from, dotted with pebbles or rumpled with sand dunes. And the photos fade to white at the edges, so the tombs and sphinxes resemble sculptures stranded on plinths.One of the reasons Lutter's images feel tangible and yet weird is that they're realised in negative, so that light forms auras where shadows should be cast and the sky is always black. But it's also the way she makes them, using one of photography's simplest and oldest devices – the pinhole camera. This is time-consuming business, requiring long exposures so that the film not only records the outlines of buildings but the ghost-like forms that move in and out of the frame as the clock ticks on. They can be crafted from anything: Lutter has used an old trunk for some of her work, but she's regularly worked with room-sized boxes to create huge, one-off images.In addition to Egypt, Lutter has photographed the Renaissance architecture of Venice and London's St Paul's. But many of her best-known works use antique techniques to capture fast-changing urban landscapes, including glass-fronted buildings and buzzing highways. For Frankfurt Airport VII: April 24, 2001, she placed a huge pinhole camera next to an aircraft stand and let the image take shape. The planes that parked there appear as overlain traces of each other, so that they seem to judder on the page.While Lutter's photographs appear to pay homage to mankind's a 幽霊のようなフォームは、アンティーク、写真technologyWill -カボチャ-切れ間都市の景観と古代遺跡のニューヨークベースのアーティストベラルターの神秘的な写真の周りダーツに見える近代的なイメージを混合し、ベラルターのピンホールカメラショット周。浮かんでいる
Fireball erupts in US suburb A huge explosion rocked a suburb of San Francisco shortly after 6pm (1pm NZ time) today, sending up a massive fireball and a white and black plume of smoke that is visible for kilometres.Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding... 巨大な爆発が午後6時直後に（13:00ニュージーランド時間）は本日、大規模な火や煙のサンブルーノとその周辺からkilometres.Firefightersの表示されて白と黒煙を送信サンフランシスコの郊外を揺るがした...
Mugabe inflames the Afro-pessimists, but Zimbabwe's story is much deeper | Petina Gappah For all the nightmarish events of the last decade, my country has much to celebrate as we mark 30 years of independenceThirty years ago on Sunday the renegade British colony that had been Rhodesia was born as Zimbabwe. In the nightmarish events of the last 10 years the euphoria of that day has been all but lost. Certainly, the achievements of Zimbabwe in the last 30 years are in danger of drowning in the mire of statistics about rampant inflation and unemployment, in images of the political repression of a cowed populace – all taken as evidence by those Thabo Mbeki calls the Afro-pessimists. For his part, President Mugabe has certainly provided much grist to the mill of the brigade that believes Africans cannot rule themselves and that independence has achieved nothing worth celebrating.As Zimbabwe turns 30, however, there are significant achievements to celebrate. Independence itself was one, especially as it brought the end of an apartheid-in-miniature that had allowed a small white minority to enjoy benefits not available to the black majority. Rhodesia's segregationist policy was grievously unjust; but children born in Zimbabwe would no longer have their life paths determined simply because of the colour of their skin.Independence came through a civil war in which tens of thousands died, and many more people were displaced. Following this, Mugabe – then prime minister – urged former combatants to turn their swords to ploughshares, and white and black to work together to build a new nation. The reconciliation policy at the time did much to allay fears of reprisals, and put Zimbabwe on a path to stability and prosperity.The chief achievement of the country's prosperous early years, one bearing fruit even today, came from the massive investment in education. From free 過去10年間のすべての悪夢のようなイベントでは、私の国は、我々はindependenceThirty年前に日曜日にジンバブエとして生まれたローデシアしていた反。英国の植民地を30周年を記念祝うために多くがある
Photo by Medvedev auctioned for 1.7 mln USD A photograph taken by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of the Tobol Kremlin in Siberia was auctioned for 51 million rubles (1.7 million U.S. dollars) on Saturday.
The black and white photo of the fortress was taken by Medvedev, a photography enthusiast, during one helicopter trip in Siberia from the air, local media reported.
The annual fund-raising auction held at St. Petersburg usually sells paintings by politicians and celebrities, with a special requirement that each of the ... 写真はロシア大統領のメドベージェフトボル川クレムリンシベリアが撮影51000000ルーブル土曜日（1.7万米ドル）で落札された
