Via Harikrishna Katragadda

Via New York Times

Richard G. Butler, founder of the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist organization died on September 8. As an aeronautical engineer Mr. Butler spent some time in India working for the Royal Indian Air Force. [Is that what it was called?] There, the article suggests, Mr. Butler “became aware of the caste system and the idea of racial superiority.”

The article quotes Butler:

“I noticed all the maharajahs were much whiter than the average Indian,” he told The Los Angeles Times in an article published in 1999. “As you went up the hierarchy, the lighter they got. It all got me to thinking, and when I came home from overseas, I had a feeling that we, the white race, were losing the war.”

Talk about a warped line of thinking! I was aghast to learn that the racist ideologies and actions of the Aryan Nations had its beginning in India!

Think street photography and I think of Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Robb Hill.

Yeah, Robb Hill.

Robb, a friend from my days at Indiana University, is a terrific photographer. I just received a note from him saying his portfolio of street photography is on display at the Catherine Edelman Gallery‘s website and that the prints are for sale. All images are 11 x 14″ or 16 x 20″ gelatin silver prints for $700 and $1200 respectively. Black & white prints – yummy!

Via New York Times

“At first Mr. Whitaker approached ground zero with dread and anxiety, he said. But when he saw the pile of rubble visibly diminish in a matter of days, he started feeling more optimistic. He wanted to capture that feeling, he said, and the speed with which the cleanup was taking place. Time-lapse photography was the ticket.”

September 11 is right around the corner. How far have we come in rebuilding Ground Zero? Check out Project Rebirth.

Via New York Times

“It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.” – VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY