Image Galleries
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From a tank of live fish in a Hong Kong restaurant to an aerial view of Shanghai, the following student photographs from a recent Weatherhead East Asian Institute exhibit are instantly eye-catching. Not immediately obvious, though, are the social, economic and political realities the photos reveal. “A Closer Look,” as the exhibit’s name urges viewers to take, shows narratives of family life, bustling cities and time-honored traditions.
The exhibit was the result of the institute’s third annual student photography contest, which began last summer with a call for photos of East and Southeast Asia taken in the year between September 2010 and 2011. A panel of students, staff and faculty selected the final 25 images out of 130 submissions; they were then displayed at the institute from November through February and for the month of April at Standard Auto Parts Building Gallery in Long Island City. Here, six of the College students included in the exhibit explain what’s hidden behind their images.
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Neil Shubin ’82 in the field digging for fossils. -
Robert Shlaer ’63 spent four years recreating the daguerreotype images of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, the young photographer who accompanied explorer John C. Frémont on his fifth and final expedition through the American West in 1853. With painstaking research and meticulous craftsmanship, Shlaer traced the expedition’s path through the western states, seeking out every vista documented by Carvalho 150 years earlier. The project resulted in a book, Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping Frémont’s Last Expedition Through the Rockies. Shlaer has another book in the works, for which he is employing modern photography to similar ends, this time capturing the Rocky Mountain landscapes sketched by the topographical artist Richard Kern as part of the Gunnison Expedition which also took place in 1853. The first eight images in this gallery are from Sights Once Seen, and the final three are from the Kern project; each shows a contemporary photo by Shlaer alongside Kern’s original sketch.
PHOTOS: ROBERT SHLAER ’63 -
A slideshow of celebrities wearing clothes from Sharene Wood ’94’s 5001 Flavors line. -
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Michael Garrett ’66, ’69L, ’70 Business shares his collection of lions great and small. -
Have you ever wanted to share the benefit of your experience with members of a younger generation, those following in your footsteps? CCT gave attendees of Alumni Reunion Weekend and Dean’s Day 2011 a chance to offer words of advice to members of the Class of 2015.Interviews and photos by Daniella Zalcman ’09
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Although far removed from the battlegrounds of Europe, Africa and Asia, Columbia played a significant role in WWII. Pupin Physics Laboratories on the Morningside Heights campus was the site of the Manhattan Project, where the development of the atomic bomb began. Approximately 24,000 men graduated from the U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School at Columbia during WWII, meaning more officers were trained during that time in New York than at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.