Category Archives: Art & Architecture

Sunday Offbeat Almanac: San Francisco’s World Fair, 1915

1915 PPIE in Blue Mars by IDIA -  Court of the...

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Opened This Day: The Panama – Pacific International Expo was a world’s fair held in San Francisco, California between February 20 and December 4 in 1915. Its ostensible purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, but it was widely seen in the city as an opportunity to showcase its recovery from the 1906 earthquakeMore>>

Photography: The Mexican Suitcase

Photographer Robert Capa during the Spanish ci...

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In late December 2007, three small cardboard boxes arrived at the International Center of Photography from Mexico City after a long and mysterious journey. These tattered boxes—the so-called Mexican Suitcase—contained the legendary Spanish Civil War negatives of Robert Capa. Rumors had circulated for years of the survival of the negatives, which had disappeared… More>>