Rob Reich presents his new time-stretching project Thymesia at the Brower Center Friday Some of the musicians featured at the recently launched Bands at Brower series approached the performance like any other gig, presenting their usual material. But for Rob Reich the David Brower Center’s ecological mission is a feature not a bug, and he’s […]
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Exposing a tumultuous era: Photographer Ken Light
Nixon resigns. Oakland, California, 1974. Photo: Ken Light Drawn to documenting the burgeoning protest movement in the late 1960s, Ken Light came to photojournalism as an extension of his anti-war activism. He started by shooting marches and demonstrations, but it wasn’t until the Nixon administration’s secret bombing of Cambodia came to light in late April […]
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Human rights made strikingly visible at Berkeley show
Widow at mass grave found in Koreme, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, June, 1992. Photo: Susan Meisalas Human rights organizations often depend on the media’s megaphone, calling malefactors to account by publicizing their misdeeds. So it’s something of a paradox that Berkeley’s most influential and visionary NGO dedicated to the international struggle for human rights, the Human […]
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A journalist discovered, undercovered: Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier in a self-portrait. Photo courtesy of the Jeffrey Goldstein collection. The most mind-blowing fact about Vivian Maier isn’t that she managed to shoot more than 120,000 photos while supporting herself a nanny. Or that the families for which she worked had little clue about her double life. Or even that she often took […]