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Art + Science: The Exhibition
©Abbey Hepner and Mike Avery
What exactly is Art + Science? Does the convergence of these two fields help the imaginative thinkers to create a new kind of art? Or does it help those who r
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Sue Palmer Stone: Embodiment: Salvaging A Self
©Sue Palmer Stone
Sue Palmer Stone is a photographer based in Connecticut.
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DEVELOPER: Madeline Cass
©Madeline Cass
I had the pleasure of talking to Madeline Cass, an artist who seems almost impossible to characterize given the incredible breadth of her practice.
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The Myths and Realities of Artistic Collaborations
© Zora J Murff and Rana Young
The Society of Photographic Educators is about to hold their 56th Annual SPE Conference in Cleveland, Ohio from March 7 – 10th, 2019.
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Art + Science: Art of Healing: Dora Maar
©Dora Maar
Dora Maar (1907-1997) was a French artist and poet. At age 19, she attended photography school and studied alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Art + Science: Art of Healing: Ronni Knepp
©Ronni Mae Knepp
Ronni Mae Knepp is a fine art photographer based in Texas. She is also a current candidate for an MFA in Photography at the Academy of Art University.
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Art + Science: Art of Healing: Marcy Palmer
©Marcy Palmer, “Stars So Far Away” from the series Penumbral Being
Marcy Palmer, a photographer and educator based in Texas, currently teaches photography at the University o
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Art + Science: Art of Healing: J. Fredric May
©J. Fredric May
J. Fredric May is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, CA. His life course changed in 2012 after he suffered a stroke.
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Art + Science: Art of Healing: Sandra Klein
©Sandra Klein
The Art + Science features this week are focused on the art of healing – how artists use art and photography to overcome or assist in the curative process.
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Liz Hickok: Ground Waters
© Liz Hickok “Rheology” from the series GROUND WATERS
Liz Hickok is a San Francisco-based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, and installation.
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2018 In the Rear View Mirror
©Aline Smithson, Moving On
I have to admit it, New Year’s Eve feels a bit like Ground Hog’s Day.
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Meghan Duda: The States Project: North Dakota
©Meghan Duda, Drawing the Mississippi
The North Dakota landscape represents a challenge for many photographers; its vast, open sky and fairly regular horizon limit the number of variables
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![In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, four members of the United Klans of AmericaÑThomas Edwin Blanton Jr.,Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank CherryÑplanted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, close to the basement.
At approximately 10:22 a.m., an anonymous man phoned the 16th Street Baptist Church. The call was answered by the acting Sunday School secretary: a 14-year-old girl named Carolyn Maull. To Maull, the anonymous caller simply said the words, "Three minutes", before terminating the call. Less than one minute later, the bomb exploded as five children were present within the basement assembly, changing into their choir robes in preparation for a sermon entitled "A Love That Forgives". According to one survivor, the explosion shook the entire building and propelled the girls' bodies through the air "like rag dolls".
The explosion blew a hole measuring seven feet in diameter in the church's rear wall, and a crater five feet wide and two feet deep in the ladies' basement lounge, destroying the rear steps to the church and blowing one passing motorist out of his car. Several other cars parked near the site of the blast were destroyed, and windows of properties located more than two blocks from the church were also damaged. All but one of the church's stained-glass windows were destroyed in the explosion. The sole stained-glass window largely undamaged in the explosion depicted Christ leading a group of young children.
Hundreds of individuals, some of them lightly wounded, converged on the church to search the debris for survivors as police erected barricades around the church and several outraged men scuffled with police. An estimated 2,000 black people, many of them hysterical, converged on the scene in the hours following the explosion as the church's pastor, the Reverend John Cross Jr., attempted to placate the crowd by loudly reciting the 23rd Psalm through a bullhorn. One individual who converged on the scene to help search for survivors, Charles Vann, later recollected that he had observed a solitary white man whom he recognized as Robert Edward Chambliss (a known member of the Ku Klux Klan) standing alone and motionless at a barricade. According to Vann's later testimony, Chambliss was standing "looking down toward the church, like a firebug watching his fire".
Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14, born April 18, 1949), Carol Denise McNair (age 11, born November 17, 1951), Carole Robertson (age 14, born April 24, 1949), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14, born April 30, 1949), were killed in the attack. The explosion was so intense that one of the girls' bodies was decapitated and so badly mutilated in the explosion that her body could only be identified through her clothing and a ring, whereas another victim had been killed by a piece of mortar embedded in her skull. The then-pastor of the church, the Reverend John Cross, would recollect in 2001 that the girls' bodies were found "stacked on top of each other, clung together". All four girls were pronounced dead on arrival at the Hillman Emergency Clinic.
More than 20 additional people were injured in the explosion, one of whom was Addie Mae's younger sister, 12-year-old Sarah Collins, who had 21 pieces of glass embedded in her face and was blinded in one eye. In her later recollections of the bombing, Collins would recall that in the moments immediately before the explosion, she had observed her sister, Addie, tying her dress sash.[33] Another sister of Addie Mae Collins, 16-year-old Junie Collins, would later recall that shortly before the explosion, she had been sitting in the basement of the church reading the Bible and had observed Addie Mae Collins tying the dress sash of Carol Denise McNair before she had herself returned upstairs to the ground floor of the church.](https://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/001-16th-Street-Baptist-Church-Easter-v2-14x14-73x52.jpg)
