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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

From portraits taken around Harlem in the 1940s to assignments for Life magazine to the 1963 March on Washington, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) wielded his camera as a tool for social justice. He captured civil rights activists like Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in addition to artists and celebrities such as Helen Frankenthaler and Ingrid Bergman. But he may be best known for his candid portraits of families and communities in the segregated South during the era of Jim Crow. All of these and more will be on view in Voices in the Mirror at Jack Shainman Gallery in mid-September, also marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Parks was spurred to pursue photography in 1937 after seeing photos taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which held a mission to document American life. “I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs,” he said. “I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” In 1942, he became the first Black photographer hired as part of the initiative, introducing him to Washington, D.C., where he noted that “discrimination and bigotry were worse there than any place I had yet seen.”

Among the images included in Voices in the Mirror are seminal portraits like “American Gothic, Washington, D.C.” (1942), which captures a government worker named Ella Watson with a broom and mop. The work nods to American Regionalist painter Grant Wood’s likewise iconic “American Gothic” painting, created 12 years earlier as an ode to American values. Parks’ image represented a starkly contrasted reality.

After speaking with Watson about her life and experience in D.C., Parks recalled that it was “so disastrous that I felt that I must photograph this woman in a way that would make me feel—or make the public feel—about what Washington, D.C., was in 1942.” He positioned her in front of a flag with a symbolic mop and broom. “I didn’t care about what anybody else felt,” he said. “That’s what I felt about America and Ella Watson’s position inside America.”

The exhibition is accompanied by numerous anecdotes and reflections by some of those who appeared in the photos or had close relationships with those who did, such as Malcolm X’s daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, and Cora Taylor, who was one of the women standing near a pair of segregated water fountains in “Segregation in the South” (1956).

Voices in the Mirror opens on September 18 and continues through November 7 in New York. You might also be interested in the works of other FSA photographers who documented the South during the 1930s and 1940s, such as Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott.

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Na de vermissing van shorttracker Roes vraagt Marijn de Vries zich af: Hoe leer je atleten dat ze er ook mogen zijn als mens?

De Amerikaanse singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams heeft een sterrenstatus. Op haar derde album ‘Daughter from Hell’ maakt ze soms indruk, maar te vaak blijft ze hangen in de stijl van haar grote voorbeeld Taylor Swift.

De voormalige burgemeester van Manchester volgt maandag Keir Starmer op als nieuwe premier van het Verenigd Koninkrijk.

Microsoft has delayed the removal of the -Credential parameter from Exchange Online PowerShell until December 2026, giving administrators more time to update affected scripts and automation. The -Credential parameter is used when connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell. It allows an administrator to supply stored username and password credentials. These days, it is heavily discouraged, particularly when more secure authentication methods are available. Microsoft had designated the parameter for removal in July 2026 as part of its move away from password-based authentication. The trouble is tracking down automation scripts that use it, updating them, and validating the changes – assuming a fix is even possible. Once the parameter is gone from the Connect-ExchangeOnline and Connect-IppsSession cmdlets in the Exchange Online PowerShell module, any scripts still relying on it will break, potentially taking carefully built workflows down with them. However, Microsoft has opted to push back the retirement beginning December 2026 – a festive gift for administrators. The company stated: "If your organization uses the -Credential parameter in PowerShell scripts or automation workflows connecting to Exchange Online or Security & Compliance PowerShell, those scripts will break when you update to an Exchange Online PowerShell module version released beginning December 2026." As such, the retirement won't take effect until an update is performed. The server-side retirement of the underlying authentication flow is planned "for a later date." "When that occurs, the -Credential parameter will stop functioning even on older module versions." Microsoft said it delayed the retirement due to "customer feedback," although it came late in the day. That said, a few extra months will be welcomed by affected administrators dealing with the impact of the change. And the change is still coming. Microsoft added: "While our published timeline extends to the start of December 2026, we strongly recommend that all customers transition away from the -Credential parameter as soon as possible and not wait until the deadline." ®

Moderne problemen vragen om moderne oplossingen. Het adres aan de Bos en Lommerweg in Amsterdam west werd afgelopen tijd getroffen door o.a. een beschieting en explosie. De politie vermoedt dat ene 'Achie de Somaliër' het beoogde doelwit was. maar wat blijkt? DIE WOONT HIER NIET. Dus ducttapet Politie Amsterdam het maar gewoon op de voordeur:

"Achie de Somaliër wont NIET op dirt adres. Er is sprake van een vergissing met betrekking tot het adres. De bewoners hebben geen enkelere elatie met of betrokkenheid bij Achie."

AT5 schrijft: "Er vielen nog geen gewonden bij de aanslagen, hoewel een bewoner bij de beschieting thuis was. Wie Achie de Somaliër is, anders dan het beoogde doelwit, kon de woordvoerder nog niet zeggen." Wij weten ook niet wie Achie is, maar we durven wel aan dat hij uit Somalië komt.