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CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Seeing the ancestors: Last weekend, for the first time, the California Historical Society, as part of a broader exhibit, began publicly displaying a collection of photographs and notations of Chinese residents in a ledger by a town constable at the turn of the century. Michael Luo wrote about the ledger, its uses, and America’s hostility toward these pioneers for The New Yorker. See the photos. “I’m moved by these images because in their faces, there are many things unsaid yet felt,” tweeted novelist Min Jin Lee. “There’s dignity, greatness, and also, sorrow.” (Pictured above, Wong Fun, who was marked dead in the ledger. The entry adds just one word: “Burned.”)
Everyday resilience: Russell Frederick’s focus has remained constant for nearly a quarter century: Quiet dignity, family love, and everyday joy in the lives of Black and Brown people. The images have taken on greater resonance during the pandemic, the Brooklyn-based photographer tells the Washington Post. See them here.
The lives of others: In 1974, German photographer Ute Mahler set out to show how East Germans lived under Communism and behind the Berlin Wall. She focused on the young, and their diffident coolness and subversive fashions, the Guardian writes. See her images.
Air, bud: Onetime British Olympian turned animal portrait photographer Nigel Wallace makes dogs look like superheroes. He captures the pets flying through the air as they leap over fallen trees and branches. he tells PetaPixel that the dogs naturally do a kind of “Superman pose” as they leap. “You can almost draw a cape on the back of them,” he says.
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